VOA标准英语｜马里兰州废品场，让旧汽车拥有二次生命
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Five thousand square meters of old damaged cars, motorcycles and boats fill this junkyard. For a casual onlooker, this might be a very sad sight. But for Andy Cohen, it’s a real treasure. I’ve been a junk hoarder for my whole life, so I like different things. I like fixing up stuff that shouldn’t be thrown away.
Around 200 old cars end up in this junkyard every week. Some of them are sold for parts, others get repaired, still others are beyond repair, and his father Bobby started the business some 50 years ago, and still spends every morning there.
What I liked about the business it was always a lot of fun. It’s a lot harder now. Things are a lot more competitive and the Internet has really taken a toll on us. You come in with a smile every day and hopefully somebody else will smile.
The father and son have very different approaches to their work. So we got a one Dean cab that was getting thrown away and that was my father’s project, and that was one I did not want him to do.
He did he did basically the opposite of everything I told him, and I think he just did it just to make me mad. Because he dumped a ton of money into this car and in the end, it wouldn’t run.
The unusual family business attracted the attention of a TV crew. That’s how to show Janka Empire came to be featured on a subsidiary network of the Discovery Channel. In my world, there’s no idea too crazy. My Empire, five years of shooting, five seasons, 60 episodes.
This show about old rusty cars is popular all over living here. There were hundreds of junkyards throughout the United States. I think what’s interesting is that is a family business.
My father and I started the business, and we banter very well back and forth, and I think that’s what people like they can relate to it. The cars that end up at the coins junkyard who endless surprises, and every one of them can get a second chance. And this was a salvaged car which was a junk car and II Bart, and we were fully restored it with a blown motor.
Andy Cohen restored this unique car himself. Yet he doesn’t get a chance to ride around it too often. Because despite its sleek, I think the roar of the engine is truly deafening, and he worries his neighbors will not put up with the noise.