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Vehicle recycling or automobile scrapping is the dismantling of vehicles for spare parts. At the end of their useful life , vehicles have value as a source of spare parts and this has created a vehicle dismantling industry.
A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish, British and New Zealand English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as ...
Victory Auto Wreckers was founded in the 1940s by a pair of World War II veterans. [3] The company was purchased by Kenneth Weisner in 1967 and is now owned by his son, Kyle. [4] Victory purchased wrecked or decommissioned vehicles and then allowed customers to browse through their lots in search of workable parts.
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Trak Auto – Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and West Coast; founded by Robert Haft (Crown Books) in 1981; purchased and rebranded by Advance Auto Parts in 2002 [26] [27] Western Auto – nationwide, once had 1,800 locations, purchased by Sears in 1987 [ 28 ] [ 29 ] and sold to and rebranded by Advance Auto Parts in 1998 [ 30 ] [ 31 ]
JC Whitney is a retailer of aftermarket automotive parts and accessories. as well as an automotive content platform via JCWhitney.com and the JC Whitney print magazine It was acquired by CarParts.com (formerly U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc.), a publicly traded American online provider of aftermarket auto parts in 2010.
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In 2023, Advance Auto Parts took over as the official sponsor of the checkered flag in IndyCar. [36] Advance Auto Parts has served as a sponsor in NASCAR, where it is the official auto parts retailer of the sanctioning body. [37] The company sponsored the 2017 Advance Auto Parts Clash exhibition race at Daytona International Speedway. [38]