Old Car City, a Classic Car Junkyard.

A sign in the front reads “The world’s oldest junkyard jungle, here 80 years.”

Old Car City contains over 4,000 classic cars from the mid century — most of them from year 1972 or older — strewn over 34 acres of forested property.

There are old Fords, big-finned Cadillacs and even the rare 1941 Mack milk truck.

Visiting all of them will take you over six miles of walking old-car-city.

The roots of Old Car City goes back to 1931 when the Lewis family opened a general store in a small town called White, formed only a few years earlier.

They sold various items ranging from clothing to car parts, tires, and gasoline.

When the United States entered World War II, and resources such as steel and tires became scarce, the Lewis family smartly added a scrapyard business.

They bought junk cars, scrapped them and sold the parts. By the late 1940s, the general store had turned into a full fledged auto salvage yard.

It was in this environment that Dean Lewis, the current owner of Old Car City, was born.

Dean spent his entire childhood playing with the cars.

One day he is on the racetrack, the next day he is a school bus driver. “I drove ’em a million miles. Never moved an inch!,” he told CBS News.

Cars and trucks was all he knew. So when Dean finally acquired the business from his parents, in 1970, he had an entirely different plan.

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