A junker is a car most of us have already given up on. It’s been smashed in a crash, flooded out, rusted through, or simply worn down by time and neglect. It won’t start. It won’t move. It’s the kind of vehicle people call a clunker, a heap, a rust bucket, a hooptie, and then forget about as soon as it’s towed away. But junkers aren’t worthless. Not really. Inside them reside parts that still work, metal that can still be reused, and stories that aren’t quite finished yet.
That’s where Natasha Broxton enters the scene.
Broxton is the president and owner of Select Auto Parts and Sales, a business she has quietly built into a success by seeing value where others do not. Her operation sits at 2500 W. Cornell Street in Milwaukee’s central city, inside a massive 145,000 square foot indoor salvage yard. It’s one of the few Black-owned auto parts recycling businesses in the country…