On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 11:02:12 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I haven't seen an active junkyard in years.

They are rare and big ones ever rarer. We do go looking in our travels
because that is the best source of vintage license plates for our
collection. We scored this time just south of Waynesville in a small
yard with several dozen junked cars and a bunch of other metal stuff.
I am guessing trucking it out of here holds down the price of scrap
metal.
The biggest junkyard we have been in for a long time was Montana,
closely followed by one in New Zealand. Junkyards are the same world
wide tho. Nasty old guys with nasty old dogs. I seem to get along with
both fairly well tho. ;-)
The New Zealand guy started off pretty rough but as soon as he figured
out why we were there he switched over to the normal Qiwi "No worries,
help yourself mate" I couldn't even get him to take any money.