Automotive History

Maserati styling, Chrysler chassis, Mitsubishi drivetrain.

Complete with big 430-cubic-inch V8 and split bucket seats, this 1969 Buick Wildcat was a big, powerful sedan for high-rollers with a bit of the devil in them. Now its driving days are finished.

When you know you're a car's final owner, you get to decorate it any way you like. That's what happened with this 1991 Toyota Corolla DX station wagon in a San Francisco Bay Area wrecking yard.

Ford's turbocharged Mustang Cobra of 1979, now parked forever.

General Motors sold this car with Chevrolet and Geo badging, as the Spectrum, but a small number went to Isuzu dealerships with I-Mark badging.

It still wears its original coat of red paint.

This sinister black F-Body finally reaches the end at age 34.

It's designed as an homage to the 1970 Le Mans winning car.

A beat-up example of Chevrolet's popular personal luxury coupe of the Malaise Era, this 1975 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Landau now resides in a Northern California wrecking yard.

A year before its Volkswagen Dasher sibling went on sale in North America, the Audi Fox (known as the Audi 80 elsewhere) was sold here. Today's Junkyard Gem is a '73 Fox in Northern California.

It has less than 16,000 miles on the odometer.

With 134 horsepower and 5-speed manual transmission, this 1990 VW Jetta GLI was the sedan cousin of the hot-hatch GTI.

The 12 uber-rare and historic vehicles are for sale.

Complete with screaming yellow paint, big wing ... and automatic transmission.

Subaru's big SUV debuted for the 2006 model year in the United States, with futuristic interior and polarizing exterior.

There were too many bottlenecks to be efficient.

This 1982 Ford Fairmont Futura is a discarded example of Ford's Fox-Platform compact sedan of the Malaise Era, photographed in a self-service junkyard in Phoenix, Arizona.

A moss-and-lichen-covered example Dodge's sport compact of the late 1980s, equipped with naturally-aspirated engine and five-speed manual transmission.

Complete with paint-pen graffiti and cheesecakey skateboard-fashions stickers.

A solid 1971 Mercedes-Benz E-Class W114 coupe in a San Francisco Bay Area self-service junkyard.