When Victory Auto Wreckers tows and crushes its last clunker this month after nearly 80 years in business, it will mark the end — thankfully for some — of perhaps the longest-running commercial in the ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) -- It's been a staple on Chicago TV for nearly 40 years – a man with a beard and a mullet opens the door of an old teal car parked on the street in front of a suburban-looking house, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- If you've spent any amount of time watching television in Chicago, one iconic commercial lives rent free in your head. That commercial, featured in the player above, is for Victory ...

Robert Zajdell, The Victory Auto Wreckers Guy, joins Dean Richards to talk about the shop closing and his role in the famous Victory Auto Wreckers commercial.

The passenger jet roars off the end of the runway, climbing steeply, its white fuselage gleaming in the late-morning sunlight. A couple of minutes later, another jet takes off, then another. It’s a ...

You may not know Kyle Weisner but probably feel like you do, or should. And he appreciates it. Weisner is a third-generation family member and owner of Victory Auto Wreckers Inc., which has been ...

What is the classic Chicago TV commercial or business that is your remember that is gone but not forgotten? Roger Badesch, retired WGN Radio news anchor, returns to ‘The Dave Plier Show’ to talk to ...