For starters, is your starting point your buddy's running project car or one that you saw in an ad somewhere, or how about a car you purchased and the owner told you, "It only needs a few things and ...

The passing of the sleezy scrounge and his backyard "bitsa" (a bomb built from bits of this and bits of that) was inevitable. Old clunkers have become "collectibles." Junkyards have become recycling ...