Junkyard: Behind the Gates at California's Secretive European-Car Salvage Yard

ISBN: 076036768X

Author: L

Condition: Used

Junkyard offers the only known photographic documentation of car collector Rudi Kleins famed stockpile of distraught-but rare and valuable-vehicles from Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Maserati, and more.In 1967, Rudi Klein began quietly buying up wrecked, damaged, and worn-out high-end European cars under the business moniker Foreign Auto Wrecking. Over time, he amassed a stunning collection of treasures. Among the stash is a one-of-one 1935 Mercedes-Benz 500K built for pre-war Mercedes racer Rudolf Caracciola. No one is precisely sure what other prizes rest behind the yards not-open-to-the-public gates.Some 20 years ago, and after much negotiation, photographer Dieter Rebmann and author Roland Lowisch were permitted rare entrée to the salvage yards grounds to document its residents.This record of Kleins collection is nothing short of amazing for any classic and collector car enthusiast.Sadly, Rudi passed away in 2001, but the collection remains under the care of his sons, who operate it as elusively as their father, maintaining its decades-long air of mystery and desirability.