On Mother's Day, TLS Auto Recycling Showed Care for Mother Earth
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
TLS Auto Recycling announced a new service on May 13th 2012 to purchase junk cars for cash, thus contributing to the "reduce, reuse, recycle" mantra, and retains its longstanding commitment to the environment by continuing to test all OEM parts in …

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Got a Junk Car? Donate it in Durham!
Patch.com
The town's volunteer fire department is looking for vehicles to use during training, as well as for this month's mock crash aimed at preventing underage drinking. By Michael Hayes It's not every day that someone offers to haul away your junk, …

instaVIN(TM) Partners with ClassicCars.com to Deliver Vehicle History Reports …
MarketWatch (press release)
instaVIN vehicle history reports help classic car buyers and sellers better understand the title history and other historical events of vehicles. instaVIN reports provide title history, junk and salvage events, insurance total loss records, …

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Frito-Lay is Adding 100 More Smith Electric Trucks
Hybrid Cars News
By Jeff Cobb Some people associate bagged snacks with “junk food,” but you probably would not make that connection based on how healthy Frito-Lay's Web site says its products are – and in any case, the company is mirroring this ethic in how its …

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SIDE STREETS: Redneck Stonehenge coming down but bronco with odd paint remains
Colorado Springs Gazette
A few months ago, I poked fun at the folks at Copperhead Road Honkey Tonk and Saloon and their suggestion that junk cars, propped up on end, half-buried or hoisted on poles were art. Sculpture, actually, was the word saloon owners used to describe the …

Nuisance signs have a new enemy: robocalls
Houston Chronicle
"We Buy Junk Cars!" ''Cash for Your House!" ''Computer Repair." The eyesores have vexed Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober for the past few years as he wastes valuable resources plucking up the signs only to watch them pop up in even greater numbers.

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Out-of-control car slams into Jerry's Automotive Service
Canton Repository
“I thought something fell off an airplane or a piece of space junk, a meteor. Who knows?” Hartleben said. “It was horrendous.” Along with knocking a hole in the wall, the impact sheared a natural-gas meter. “I don't have gas,” Hartleben said.

Church Car Show Attracts Enthusiasts
Patch.com
For the first six months after Rutledge bought the car, it sat in his basement while he tinkered away at the parts. He finally put it on the road in March 2011. It used to be that old cars were considered mostly junk by the general public, …

Investigators search for man suspected in car thefts
The Augusta Chronicle
Investigator Billy Dixon described Trottie as a con man who looks for old cars parked on side streets and in people's yards. In several cases, police say, Trottie would call a salvage company, explain that he had a junk car he wanted to sell and have …

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Cash For Cars Quick Corp. Continues Growth Through Competitive Prices For …
PR Web (press release)
CashForCarsQuick.com exceeds its forecasted quarterly earnings estimate, and has record cash for junk cars pick-up service for first quarter of 2012. Cash For Cars Quick, Corp. says it had picked up more junk cars than they had projected.
Cash For Cars Service Beats Projected FiguresMediaSyndicate (press release)

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Tupelo planning 2nd summer blitz on junk cars, overgrown lawns and other code …
The Republic
For the second year in a row, Tupelo is planning a summertime crackdown on junk vehicles, overgrown lawns and other unslightly violations of the city's residential code. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (http://bit.ly/IxvlDH) reports that …

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Jacksonville police make stolen auto parts, junk car arrests
Florida Times-Union
By Adam Kealoha Causey Recent covert Jacksonville police operations have led to arrests for buying stolen auto parts or illegally salvaging junk vehicles to sell for scrap. Chief of Detectives Tom Hackney on Thursday announced the arrest of five in …
3 arrested in stolen car stingWJXT Jacksonville

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Honda Concept S
Car and Driver
BY ALEXANDER STOKLOSA Honda brought two obliquely named concepts to the 2012 Beijing auto show; the first is the Concept C sedan and the second is this Concept S tall hatchback. Like the Concept C, the S previews a new production model—in this case, …

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Attorney wants to take to court those behind spam "junk car" texts
Sun-Sentinel
By Donna Gehrke-White, Sun Sentinel A Hallandale Beach attorney says he is so fed up with those annoying "WE BUY JUNK CARS" text messages invading many South Floridians' cellphones that he is investigating, pro bono, where they are coming from.

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Timken Breaks Ground on $225 Million Expansion At Its Faircrest Steel Plant in …
Autochannel (press release)
In 2011, the Timken Steel segment melted 1.7 million tons of scrap steel–equal to approximately 1 million junk cars–and generated $2 billion in sales of its custom-designed steel. The company has invested steadily in its operations through the years, …
Timken breaks ground for Faircrest expansionNew Philadelphia Times Reporter

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City Collects Mega 'Junk' At Central Park
Patch.com
By Jean Whitney Free recycling on Earth Day at Chesterfield's Central Park collected a parking lot full of huge televisions, and plenty of other stuff that residents emptied out from their car trunks Saturday. Saturday was the city's 21st celebration …

Proposal would let more purchase salvage vehicles
Springfield News Sun
Ty Greenlees/Chief Photogrpaher Gene Wyen, the owner of Walt's Auto Salvage in Springfield, is concerned about the legislature's move to open the auto salvage market. Staff Photo by Ty Greenlees By Jackie Borchardt, Columbus Bureau 10:39 PM Sunday, …
Salvage vehicle law may get updateHamilton Journal News (subscription)

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New city ordinance imposes fines for illegal signs
Kansas City Star
While signs touting everything from junk cars to political candidates have been prohibited from the public right of way since 1967, the city has not had an effective enforcement tool, City Council members said. So they recently adopted an ordinance …

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Mayor: Fines need to be increased for repeat junk car, high grass violators
Morning Times
At Thursday's council meeting, Thomas implored the board to increase the fines for repeat violators of the borough's ordinances on junk cars and high grass and weeds. In some cases, Sayre Code Enforcement Officer Pat Cahill is traveling to these …

Busti Junk Car Resolution Approved, Again
Jamestown Post Journal
By Dennis Phillips (dphillips@post-journal.com) , The Post-Journal BUSTI – By April 20, one of the junk vehicle issues in Busti may no longer be a problem. On April 9, the Busti Town Board once again passed a resolution to have junk cars removed from …

'Clash for Clunkers' Program Offers Free Admission to Penn Can Speedway 'Clash …
WhoWon.com
A junk car could be your ticket to the 'Clash at the Can' in June. G&G Towing and Scrap Recycling of Carbondale, Pa., has instituted a unique "Clash for Clunkers" program for the Race of Champions Dirt Modified Tour big-block/small-block Modified event …

US Could Make the Best Vehicles in the World Says Top Gear's Hammond
Yahoo! Finance (blog)
Seth Barville • Doylestown, Pennsylvania • 5 hours ago American auto makers tried to compete with the Asians by putting junk on the market in the 1980s. Funny, how hard it is to regain trust. Hello • 5 hours ago I love my Jeep Grand Cherokee.

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Hunks (of all kinds) hauling junk
Philadelphia Inquirer
Flexing his physique is Michael Ort, 28, franchise owner of College Hunks Hauling Junk in West Chester. “Hunks” in the name, Ort says, is an acronym for “honest, uniformed, nice, knowledgeable students” — so his five workers, buff or not, …

Philly Residents Compete To Tear Down Illegal Signs
NPR
Among other things, residents are heading out Saturday to tidy up utility poles with advertisements for "cash for junk cars" and the like. Elizabeth Fiedler of member station WHYY reports on a competition to tear down as many illegal signs as possible.

UConn Event To Honor Fraternity Member
Hartford Courant
By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY, cdempsey@courant.com The Hartford Courant Christian Klorczyk was among the University of Connecticut students who would take a sledgehammer to a junk car on campus every year to help his fraternity raise money for charity.

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New Cash for Cars Website Offers Top Dollar for Used or Junk Cars, Free …
SBWire (press release)
And whether it was a car accident that did them in or they have simply stopped running, sometimes it can be hard to know what to do with used, junk or damaged cars. What many people do not realize is they can earn substantial cash for junk cars.

Pedaling art or junk?
Wayne Post
Specifically, he's accused of having “junk and debris,” “erecting a temporary structure without a permit” and “running a business in a zoning district that doesn't allow it.” The “junk” is the hundreds of bikes on the property — mostly stored inside a …

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Ongoing blight fight: Readers send suggestions for trashy properties …
Oakland Press
By CAROL HOPKINS Government officials prepare every spring to field calls about messy yards and unsightly junk cars. Blight and trash can have adverse effects on how a community feels about itself. In Waterford, the community planning department …

'Bandit' signs busted by Philadelphia man
Pocono Record
He has no interest in selling his home in a few seconds, doesn't need a new roof, and doesn't own a junk car that he can donate to help a needy family. But Christopher Sawyer, 34, sure has a thing for the so-called "bandit" signs that advertise these …

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Car loot: Burglar told he can keep £85000 after convincing judge he earned it …
Daily Mail
By Eddie Wrenn A burglar has been told he can keep nearly £84000 that police found at his home after he convinced a judge he made it selling junk at car bootsales. Officers had applied to have the cash confiscated from Craig Tolley after they …

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As the 2012 Tax Season Approaches, the Economy Slowly Improves
PR Web (press release)
One easy way to simultaneously promote economic growth and save money during tax season is to junk a car. Having an old junk car is a financial burden, and many junk car yards are happy to pay people to take these broken vehicles off their hands.

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"Junk car" text spam came from untraceable phone
Sun-Sentinel
Part of the mystery of the "junk car" text message spam inundating South Florida has been solved, and part of it may never be. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has found that at least one of the telephone numbers sending the …

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"Junk Cars" Text Spams Miami Phones; One Man Fights Back
Miami New Times
If you have a Miami-area phone number, there's a good chance that in the past few months, you've received texts seeking "junk cars." The message is all uppercase in both English and Spanish and promises $400 to $450 for your clunker.

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Richmond Man Arrested For Theft Of Car
LEX18 Lexington KY News
Police say Terry Newman, 50, is charged after a woman reported to police that her car broke down at the Sea Shell Food Mart on S. Killarney Lane. at which time she was approached by Newman's son with an offer to assist. The woman accepted the offer of …

"Junk Cars" Text Spam Plagues Miami Cell Phones, But One Brave Local Fights Back
Miami New Times (blog)
… By Tim Elfrink By Kyle Munzenrieder By Tim Elfrink By Gus Garcia-Roberts Mon., Apr. 2 2012 at 8:30 AM ​If you have a Miami-area phone number, there's a good chance that in the past few months, you've received texts seeking "junk cars.

Danbury's Lajoie Junk Yard Drawing Fire
Patch.com
By Mark Langlois This vehicle is parked in front of Lajoie's auto wrecking yard in Danbury. Zoning Enforcement Officer Sean Hearty has two cease and desist orders against Jajoie's Triangle Street junk yard, and neighbors say the yard must not be …
Racing legend in zoning battleDanbury News Times

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His mission: To rid Philly of "bandit" signs
Philadelphia Daily News
He has no interest in selling his home in a few seconds, doesn't need a new roof, and doesn't own a junk car that he can donate to help a needy family. But Christopher Sawyer, 34, sure has a thing for the so-called "bandit" signs that advertise these …

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Code Violations to be Stopped
EverythingLubbock.com
"We're looking for violations that we normally work," said Stuart Walker, "junk vehicles, property maintenance, zoning violations, and weeds and rubbish." Walker, of the code administration section of the Lubbock Police Department, said they've already …

Keyser City Council defers action on junk cars, feral cats
Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune
Roy gave a brief history of the city's junk ordinance, noting that the effort to clean up broken down cars began many years ago with much fanfare, but soon stalled because of the difficulty of enforcing the law. He noted extensive notification …

Friends, family bond over love of old cars
Lexington Dispatch
The saying "one man's junk truly is another man's treasure" helped spawn the club's name. "The paint's the way it came through, out in the woods," Daniels said. "There were trees growing up through it. We cut them down and yanked it out of the woods.

Gary Booth named to deputy EM post
The Dallas Post
By EILEEN GODIN Dallas Post Correspondent Lake Township supervisors addressed water run-off and junk car problems while appointing a deputy emergency management coordinator at their monthly meeting March 19. Last week, supervisors were notified about …

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Junk Cars Atlanta Helps People in the Metropolitan Area Get Much-needed Cash …
SBWire (press release)
While most of these vehicles are still in working order, a pretty good number are no longer operable, spending their days parked in the garage or on the driveway. Traditionally, getting rid of junk cars has meant somehow getting the vehicle to an …

Busti To Hold Another Public Hearing On Junk Cars
Jamestown Post Journal
By Dennis Phillips (dphillips@post-journal.com) , The Post-Journal BUSTI To correct a paperwork technicality, the town of Busti will be holding another public hearing to remove junk cars from the property of Lee and Sharon Fischer.

DealerTrack Expands Integrated Services to Assist Dealers in Complying with …
MarketWatch (press release)
With the passage of Assembly Bill 1215 last year, beginning in July, all used vehicles offered for sale must have a vehicle history report pulled from the National Motor Vehicle Title and Information System (NMVTIS). DealerTrack has integrated the …

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Rock Hill woman finds little comfort in arrest of auto theft suspect
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Weeks later, she discovered that her car, valued at $1200 and parked at the side of her house for family to use as a “spare” ride, was scrapped beyond recovery and reduced to piles of metal. “I was mad, very mad. My car was not a junk car, my car was …

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East Bethel fire fight hindered by junk vehicles
Coon Rapids Herald
By Eric Hagen on March 15, 2012 at 3:02 pm An exploding boiler in an outside storage building led to a Thursday afternoon (March 15) fire that burned many junk cars and was a challenge to put out because of all the debris in the way, according to East …

Code Enforcers: Junk Cars
KZTV Action 10 News
Seizing a junk car is generally a lengthy process, says Rivas. It usually starts with a citizen complaint, which followed by an initial inspection, then a 21 day period to get the car back in compliance. If during a re-inspection it's still in …

Marco Island draft compliance code would better define junk and ways to remove it
Marconews
Abandoned vessels, junk cars, foreclosed homes and derelict equipment were a few of the items the ordinance could address. Board members volleyed the definition of abandoned. On an island where so many residents are absent for months at a time, …

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On your bike, get set, go! Auto-free days in Germany for 2012
Stars and Stripes (blog)
By Karen Bradbury It's time to locate your bike under the heaps of junk in your garage, pump up its tires, grease the chain and head out to participate in one of Germany's wonderful auto-free days. Generally held on Sundays, these are days when …

Tony Stewart uses bold move late to win at Las Vegas
Aiken Standard
TalkBack: Enjoy TalkBack, A country like Iran, Junk yard 3/11/2012 11:22 PM Enjoy TalkBack To Mr. DiStefano: All I can say is get a life. TalkBack is a cartoon to be enjoyed with tongue in cheek, and every once in a while, som .

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VW's Funding Lead Over Peugeot Widens as Cash Pile Swells: Cars
Bloomberg
Junk Rating “The pressure on car-maker finances is evident at Peugeot,” UBS's Houchois said. “The planned asset sale and rights issue are driven in part by an effort to protect its bank. If Peugeot's credit rating dropped further, it risked losing …

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Earnhardt Jr. adds Montoya's Daytona car to junk car collection
SportingNews.com
LAS VEGAS—As a famous NASCAR driver, one would expect Dale Earnhardt Jr. to have a valuable car collection. But it's a collection of crashed cars—and its newest addition—that has people talking. Dennis Setzer's wrecked No.
Who's got Montoya's wreck from the Daytona Explosion? Dale Earnhardt Jr., of …Yahoo! Sports (blog)

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Florida City Cracks Down On Illegal Highway Signs
NPR
Officials in Hollywood, Fla., don't like signs that people illegally put in highway medians, offering to buy gold or junk cars. The Sun Sentinel reports the city is placing scores of robo-calls to the numbers on the signs, hoping to harass their owners …

Firefighters battle junk car blaze
Burlington Times News
A junk vehicle that was being crushed by a scrap compressor Wednesday at Wheeley Auto Mall caught fire after gasoline in the vehicle's tank leaked and ignited, according to the Swepsonville Fire Department. Capt. Tony Massey of the Swepsonville Fire …

Busti Forces Removal Of More Junk Cars
Jamestown Post Journal
By Dennis Phillips (dphillips@post-journal.com) , The Post-Journal BUSTI – Busti officials have passed another resolution to remove more junk cars from the property of Lee and Sharon Fischer. On Monday, the Busti Town Board held a public hearing to …

Jimmie Johnson still has a huge mountain to climb, as Phoenix showed
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
By Jay Busbee By Jay Busbee | From The Marbles – Sun, Mar 4, 2012 7:38 PM EST After a race in which he finished fourth and looked to have one of the best cars of the field, Johnson has amassed exactly 18 points. That leaves him in 37th place, …
CUP: Bottom Lines Tremble After DaytonaFox News

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Consumer Reports: Avoid low-coverage 'junk' health plans
KATU
A Consumer Reports investigation calls out “junk” health insurance and how to avoid it. One type to avoid is a so-called mini-med plan offered by some employers. Mini-med plans deliver very limited protection, such as a $2000 maximum payout per year …

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Find Real Estate As Low As $100K in Bar Harbor, Ellsworth, Blue Hill & Acadia! Paying cash for your junk cars and scrap metal. Pick up service available. Our lot is full of quality pre-owned cars, trucks and SUV's, both domestic and imported.

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Businessman killed responding to junk car assessment call
KTNV Las Vegas
The company does both towing and car restoration. Coworkers say he was responding to junk car assessment call when he was ambushed and gunned down. Neighbors think the victim might have been lured into the area by the killer.

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Website helps owners junk cars
American Recycler Newspaper
Cash For Junk Autos launched a website that works as a middle man between the local salvage yard and owners of unwanted autos. The company has a comprehensive, step-by-step system for quickly removing automobiles from an owner's property to promote …

New Haven fixes law on junk cars
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
NEW HAVEN – After fine-tuning the city's rules on junk vehicles, the New Haven City Council agreed Tuesday to move forward with an amended version that will exempt salvage businesses. The new ordinance would prohibit abandoning partially dismantled, …

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