New Eco Friendly Junk Car Company
Rumor has it there is a new eco-friendly junk car website about to go beta! MrCarJunk.com
A Little Friday Fun at Toyota’s Expense
Loved this from the onion
David Gold – Co-Owner of Standard Auto Wreckers Wins!
“Aggressive, top-notch facilities that understand the power of networking and education”. That is how the Locator Executive V.P Charis Lloyd describes what it takes to be listed in the top 25 most influential recyclers list for 2009. And our friend David Gold was voted number one, as the most influential…
Chrysler Dealership Sues Woman Over Charging Her too Low a Price
As reported in the New York Times, a crazy legal action makes you understand the adage “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.” And now a Chrysler dealership in Hopkins, Minn., is using that concept to sue a customer over a deal it says she should…
Standard Auto Wreckers vs. Car-Part
The ARA conference this year was a great success and a lot of fun for all those that attended. With a tag line like “Experience the Horsepower Driving the Industry” most of us took the challenge quite seriously. It seems the entries for Standard Auto Wreckers and Car-Part exchanged a…
Forum Views in Our Section Tops 2,500
For those of you that missed the news a couple of months ago we partnered up with CarsForums.com and we have our own forum area titled Used Auto Parts and Car Recycling – Just today we cracked 2,500 views and are looking forward to having many more visit. We have…
Cash Found in Recycling Station
This piece of news is quite funny and probably falls into the area of weird. It seems in Sunnyvale the adage ‘finders keepers’ does not count when it is public servants finding cold, hard cash! because amid the crushed soda cans, plastic bags and soiled cardboard, a shower of $100…
Hybrids are Guzzlers Too
It seems those amazing ‘fuel efficient’ hybrids are guzzlers of a different type! The Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements found in a wide range of gadgetry and consumer goods. That makes…
Is Retire your Ride Good Enough
Canada’s own Retire your Ride program is an initiative of The Government of Canada, Clean Air Foundation and its partners, designed to enable people to get their high-polluting cars off the road and reward them for doing so. The program is committed to improving air quality by responsibly recycling vehicles…