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Junkyard Find: Gray-Market 1981 Mercedes-Benz 380 SEL

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Today's Junkyard Find is one of those cars, found in a self-service boneyard near Denver, Colorado. The price tag on that car was $44,298, or about $157,037 in 2024 dollars. The W126 was sold in the United States through 1991, after which it was replaced by the flashier but flakier W140. For the 1981 model year, the U.S.-market

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Junkyard Find: 1959 Renault Dauphine

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I discovered a Mexican-market '06 Peugeot 407 in a Denver boneyard, earlier this year, and thought years would pass before the next time I'd hear the ghosts of André Citroën , Louis Renault , and Armand Peugeot singing La Marseillaise over a car graveyard. Peugeot stuck it out until 1991 , when the last new 405s hit American streets.