We wouldn’t tell this story again if it weren’t so extraordinary. At the beginning of September we reported in the Sunday newspaper about our visit to a junkyard in Los Angeles. Rudi Klein’s scrapyard, who emigrated from Rüsselsheim to America in the 1960s, where he worked as a butcher and ultimately became a millionaire by dismantling accident-prone cars. They weren’t just any accident cars. Klein almost only bought Porsches and Mercedes-Benzes, a few BMWs, and sometimes a Ferrari, Maserati or Lamborghini. Nobody in California wanted the sinfully expensive cars if they were wrecked. Klein dismantled them, sold the parts and stored the bodies on steel high shelves in the open air.
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