Junkyard: Behind the Gates at California's Secretive European-Car Salvage Yard

I liked it - very interesting collection of photographs. Although, like most picture books, you at it once and then put in the book shelf.

awesome photographs!

Unique and excellent photographic essay

facinating story

It was a gift to my brother, so I never saw it, but he says he enjoys it.

This is a beautiful book to look at and read. In California Rudi Klein began collecting damaged high end European Cars. He hid them behind the fences of his junkyard. The author, with some work, was allowed in to photograph and document the treasures. Even though there is a lot of information included the photographs are the stars. This book will make a great gift for any car fan. Enjoy

I picked this book up for my daughter who is an award winning amateur photographer. She enjoyed photographing the rusting post industrial hulks in Ohio while she was in college there, so I thought this would be of some interest to her. She thought the photography good and well presented but felt it would be ofd more interest to people hwo are interested in rare European cars. The photographer and writer are both experts in that field.I share her view, but am much less educated in terms of artistic photography than she is. It is an interesting book and well produced but is most definitely a niche subject. I have a good friend who collects rare cars but he has moved, thousands of miles, where his cars are, and where they will be better preserved than here (Hawaii).This is the perspective of a casual observer with an interest in art and photography. The book provides a good deal of information, to include valuations, which would undoubtedly be of interest to those who collect or who are just interested in these once beautiful old cars.Note: the 4 stars was meant to call out that this book is of interest to a focal group, and not the quality of content.

I ordered this in memory of my best friend, who loved classic European cars, especially his beloved (but non-running) Porsche 914. He also loved things that were old and funky and had lots of projects planned that he never got to. He'd have adored this book.It's a completely different take on the standard automotive photography book, and I didn't fully understand what it was until it arrived. The junkyard of the title is a privately owned salvage yard in Los Angeles that is chock full of junked European classics that Rudi Klein, its enigmatic German-born multimillionaire owner (now deceased), acquired over decades, starting in 1967. During his life, he shied away from any kind of publicity and rejected all efforts to photograph his "collection." But enter German photographer Dieter Rebmann and writer Roland Lowisch, who somehow ingratiated themselves with Klein and received permission to document the contents of the high-class junkyard. for a day in 2000. This book, a snapshot of a moment in time, is the result.Junkyard is a tribute both to Klein and to the decades of classic cars that he collected. Since all of them are junked, it's safe to say you've never seen them quite like this before. Mercedes, Porsche, Aston Martin, Ferrari, etc. are all represented, beautifully photographed, faded paint, rust, dust, dents and all. Some are extremely valuable, or would be if they were whole. The photographs are beautiful, and there is so much to see in many of them that the enthusiast will be kept busy for hours absorbing it all.This is definitely not your standard car photo book, but the unique niche it occupies makes it really special. Klein died in 2001, and his sons have kept the junkyard going. But it's different now--cleaner, smaller, more organized, according to the text.I love how offbeat the book is and how eccentric the man whose obsession it preserves was. Enjoy.

Extraordinary account of the strange and wonderful scrapyard in a remote area of LA.More wrecked european exotics than can be seen anywhere else in the world.