Vans Auto Salvage

The challenge was to come up with the down payment and convince the other yard owners to sell on a third down and the rest on land contract, as they weren’t able to find a bank that would give them a dime. It was May 2002 when they first heard of the opportunity to purchase the salvage yard, and Tom and Duane took possession in October of 2002. Now with 3,000 cars going all the way back to the ‘40s, they were ready to sell lots of used parts. But it didn’t go as planned.

After a year of daily scrapping until late into the night, they were exhausted and struggling to make payments. They were reduced to putting their home mortgage payments on their credit cards just to get by.

Vans Auto is a family owned business who is a manufacturer, distributor and wholesaler with over 4,000 + current and classic parts.

We continue to develop and introduce new, hard to get parts previously not available to the public monthly.