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Nestled in a north Georgia forest, over 4,000 classic cars decorate 32 acres that have been turned into a junkyard museum. Owner Walter Dean Lewis’ parents started the business in 1931 as a general store that also sold auto parts. Lewis grew the collection, which had just 40 cars in the ’70s, over time. “The only thing I ever knew was cars and trucks,” Lewis says. “I like to say I work for tomorrow, always thinking about the future. Someday they would be valuable.” Lewis stopped selling parts about six years ago, soon after realizing he could sustain the business...

My father owned and operated a junkyard in Tucson for a number of years, and I learned a lot about the auto recycling industry helping around the office and as a delivery driver. So as a junkyard enthusiast, the “Cash For Clunkers” program naturally caught my interest lately. Though it looks to be the product of good intentions, I don’t think the legislation understands that junkyards already comprise an efficient, well developed recycling system for salvaging vehicles, with a beneficial result for the environment overall. I’m skeptical that ...

A U.S. soldier assigned to Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, prepares a pile of munitions for demolition in rural east Baghdad, Iraq. A scrap-metal junkyard was cleared of unexploded ordnance, which included 1,135 mortar rounds, 632 artillery rounds, 195 rockets, 22 mines and six bombs. U.S. Army photo | More photos Troops Clear Junkyard of Bomb-making Ammo The ordnance-clearing operation was completed with a focus on safety and there were no injuries during the controlled detonations. By U.S. Amry 2nd Brigade Combat Team BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 1, 2005 — More than 2,400 rounds of...

See "More Photographs" under today's lead story. The NYT has published a photo attributed to Vincent Laforet/The New York Times with the caption, "Cars and trucks, clustered together with nowhere to go, are a jumble of rectangles against the dark water in Chalmette, La." The intention is to imply this is a photo of Katrina damage. If you study this picture closely, you will see that this is a photo of an existing junk yard, not Katrina damage. To quickly prove the point, note the trucks lined up along the left of the photo which have front end damage typical...

Fri Jul 22, 8:17 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. - Albany firefighters were tearing apart a minivan as part of a training exercise when someone noticed the personal items inside. That's when they realized they had trashed the wrong vehicle. This week, Albany officials approved the city's share of the $12,000 bill for the 2002 Dodge Caravan that was mistakenly ripped open during a drill at a junk yard a year ago. Officials say the firefighters routinely practice accident scene rescue techniques by tearing open donated junked cars. In June 2004, they were supposed to practice on an older vehicle located...

The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003. The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of Saddam's missile and WMD program. The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite...