Explore incredible junkyard boasting hundreds of iconic cars – with sought-after Cadillacs & 100-year-old icons

A LEGENDARY junkyard that holds astir 1,500 classical cars successful assorted states of disrepair is considered petrolhead paradise.

Known arsenic 1 of the largest car graveyards successful America, French Lake Auto Parts is the cleanable spot for enthusiasts looking to find car parts for a restoration task - oregon to simply gawk astatine immoderate they tin find.

Also called Junktown USA, the 88-acre pasture, located adjacent Annandale, Minnesota, US, features each benignant of car you tin deliberation of - including rare, vintage models.

The immense lot, which was founded successful 1956, has a definite method to the madness, with the cars organised into sections.

According to Autocar, there’s adjacent a conception of the junkyard that’s dedicated to modern cars, wherever uncommon European and Japanese imports tin beryllium found.

However, astir car fanatics travel present hoping to find thing they’re much acquainted with, including cars from Cadillac, Dodge and Pontiac.

A caller hunt done the haul yielded an eclectic enactment of funny motors, including a Plymouth Special Deluxe and Packard pickup from the 1940s, done to a Buick Skylark from 1976 and adjacent a little-known Fiat Brava.

There’s adjacent immoderate benignant of Dodge tractor from the 1920s.

Supercar Blonde claims the owners of the gait cognize precisely what cars they hold.

Randy Reinert, whose household started the place, said: “We tin look it up and past determination is simply a fistful of america that tin astir apt archer you wrong a car oregon 2 wherever it’s sitting.”

It’s thought that thousands of radical marque the travel to the gait each year.

Tabitha Reinert added: “It’s nostalgia. It takes everybody backmost to their childhood. Cars are benignant of a foothold successful your memory. It’ll instrumentality you backmost to, for me, it was Saturdays with my grandpa.”

This comes arsenic another celebrated US-based junkyard precocious flogged its postulation of worse-for-wear motors - including an ultra-rare Mercedes Gullwing.

The celebrated Rudi Klein collection, which includes retro Porsches, and dilapidated Lamborghinis, yet went nether the hammer connected October 26.

Famed auction location RM Sotheby's ran the sale, known arsenic The Junkyard, which topped an unbelievable $29.6million - astir £23million.

The aged gait was packed with vintage cars, galore of them classical Porsches, including 356s and 911s successful assorted states of disrepair, arsenic good arsenic dozens of the German brand’s iconic air-cooled engines and different parts.

There was a brace of Ferrari 330 GTCs, a 275 GTS, and a fistful of Lamborghini Miura P400s.

Several uncommon Mercedes-Benz machines were besides nether the hammer, including a mostly implicit 1957 300 SL Roadster.