When One Manâs Trash Is Another Manâs Transmission
Building cars from old fridges and junkyard parts, these tinkerers make the most of castoff materials to build an array of wild and impressive cars.
Ernie Adams, center, built a shrunken but street-legal replica of a 1949 Mercury that is always a crowd-pleaser at car shows.Credit.Kevin Adams
By Mercedes Lilienthal
May 6, 2021
A man in Arizona builds his shrunken cars out of refrigerators, but youâd never know it by looking at them. In Washington State, a teacher built his car from a boat, and thereâs no mistaking it. And in Ghana, a student built a car that looks like a ramshackle DeLorean â and if you guessed that he made it with junkyard scraps, youâd be right.