How to Celebrate Halloween at a Car Graveyard

Plenty of businesses decorate for Halloween, so why not car graveyards? We saw an excellent Halloween display involving a gory Integra crash made by Northern California junkyard employees a while back, and now it's the turn of the creative workers at the U-Pull-&-Pay in Aurora, Colorado, to get some recognition for their Halloween spirit.

UP&P Aurora is one of my preferred locations for local parts shopping, and many of our Junkyard Treasures (including the Mexican-market Chevrolet Chevy, the 1965 Rambler Cross Country wagon, and 1973 Dodge Colt hardtop of recent months) were found there.

The yard employees wanted to add a Halloween feel for parts shoppers to enjoy, while having some fun for themselves at the same time. This display greets you right at the yard entrance.

Scissors jacks were used for the witches' heads, with black-painted safety cones used for their pointy hats (an orange cone represents the fire in the cauldron, which appears to be a plant pot found in a discarded car). This witch has a painted rear-view mirror for eyes and a gearshift knob for a nose.

A painted instrument cluster also works for an evil-looking witch face.

The witches' scary black cat is jack-based, with a mid-2010s Toyota Camry steering-wheel sensor zip-tied in as the cat's lower face.