chop shop

chop shop
A garage where stolen automobiles or motorcycles are disassembled in order to obtain the internal parts, as the vehicle is often worth more as a collection of parts than as an operating machine.

Apparently his stolen car had been taken to a chop shop, as the police only recovered the frame.


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