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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

The Truth About Cars

The "New Mini" first appeared in North American showrooms as a 2002 model, as part of the turn-of-the-century wave of retro-styled machinery that included the Volkswagen New Beetle , Chrysler PT Cruiser and Chevrolet HHR. Here's an '07 Cooper S model in a Colorado yard. and its Chrysler/Rover ancestry. New for 2007 was this 1.6-liter

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Junkyard Find: 1948 Dodge Custom Sedan

The Truth About Cars

For a few years after the end of World War II, Detroit's automakers sold mildly facelifted prewar designs while they made the switch back to peacetime production. The '48 Dodge looked old-fashioned in its day, and so I shot this photograph with an Ansco Memo camera (which was made to shoot then-cheap 35mm movie film) from the late 1920s.

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