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2. Wrecking yard - Wikipedia

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   A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish, British and New Zealand English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as ...

3. Victory Auto Wreckers - Wikipedia

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   Victory Auto Wreckers was an auto salvage yard in Bensenville, Illinois, near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It is well known in the Chicago area for its former television commercial, in which a young man struggles with a car door that has just detached from its hinges. The commercial aired with limited changes from 1985 to 2015 ...

4. Vehicle impoundment - Wikipedia

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   Vehicle immobilization is a key part of the act of impounding.. Vehicle impoundment is the legal process of placing a vehicle into an impoundment lot or tow yard, [1] which is a holding place for cars until they are placed back in the control of the owner, recycled for their metal, stripped of their parts at a wrecking yard or auctioned off for the benefit of the impounding agency.

5. Vehicle recycling - Wikipedia

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   The industry has various names for its business outlets including wrecking yard, auto dismantling yard, car spare parts supplier, and recently, auto or vehicle recycling. Vehicle recycling has always occurred to some degree but in recent years manufacturers have become involved in the process.

6. Car crusher - Wikipedia

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   A car crusher also appears in the video games Grand Theft Auto 2 where it generates power-ups depending on car model and is also used in an assassination mission. It also appears in Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Mafia II where the player can make money from stealing cars and taking them to the crusher.

7. Princess Auto - Wikipedia

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   Originally called Princess Auto Wrecking, the company was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1933. The business was struggling and the founding owner, a former merchant marine, sold the company in 1942 to Harvey Tallman. Tallman expanded the auto wrecking business into war surplus, and later, tools and equipment. [3]