Decades ago a huge pasture in Minnesota replaced cows with cars and now it’s one of the USA’s largest car graveyards

French Lake Auto Parts is now known as one of the largest car graveyards in America.

Known by many as Junktown USA, the 88-acre pasture near Annandale, Minnesota, is now home to hundreds of abandoned cars.

It’s the best place to find parts for a classic car or a restoration project.

Each year the place draws in thousands of people who want to take a trip down memory lane.

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One of the largest car graveyards in America

Since its founding in 1956, French Lake Auto Parts has acquired nearly 1,500 old classic cars.

It’s one of the biggest car graveyards in the country, alongside the Arizona junkyard with around 10,000 classic cars and this one in LA with over 7000 cars and a rare Lamborghini Miura.

Even with so many cars, there’s an order to the chaos as the owners have properly arranged all the cars.

Making it a highly organized junkyard.

In fact, they can tell you where almost any car is within the yard.

“We can look it up and then there is a handful of us that can probably tell you within a car or two where it’s sitting,” Randy Reinert, whose family started the place, said.

Classic car paradise

“It’s nostalgia. It takes everybody back to their childhood. Cars are kind of a foothold in your memory. It’ll take you back to, for me, it was Saturdays with my grandpa,” Tabitha Reinert said.

Other than storing classic cars, French Lake Auto Parts also buys and sells classic parts online.

However, word of mouth is the primary reason why most of the old classic cars ended up in their junkyard.

Since collectors know that the Reinerts have no intention of destroying the cars, they feel comfortable leaving them here.