As there are so few decent salvage yards left, trips need to be planned with extreme precision, and often involve journeys of hundreds of miles between locations. And even then, despite all the planning, it’s all too common to arrive at a yard to discover that it shut down a few weeks earlier, having crushed its entire inventory.

Occasionally however, we stumble upon a yard that doesn’t exist in any of our directories, and lacks any sort of online presence. This happened to us a few years ago while travelling on a rural stretch of state road 40 near Bruce, Wisconsin. While the owner of G&G Auto Salvage was completely mystified as to why anyone would want to photograph his yard, he was more than happy to let us in, asking his 16-year-old nephew to be our tour guide. As a result, we spent a few hours in the hot summer sun, traipsing through the undergrowth, and uncovering this fantastic collection of classic vehicles: