Private company

Victory Auto Wreckers

Logo: victoryautowreckers.com⁴

Former American wrecking yard corporation

Victory Auto Wreckers was an auto salvage yard in Bensenville, Illinois, near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It is well known in the Chicago area for its former television commercial, in which a young man struggles with a car door that has just detached from its hinges.² Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1940Founded¹

Industryretail¹
HeadquartersBensenville¹
Websitewww.victoryautowreckers.com
Slogan“That old car might be worth money.”¹
Legal formBusiness Corporation³
LEI549300JK6EDE4WNC2266³
StatusActive³
LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)³
Registered addressC/O Kyle Weisner, 60106 Bensenville, United States³
Registered withBusiness Services (Office of the Secretary of State), 75689853³

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Products and brands

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Listed on Wikidata.¹

Timeline

1940Founded Founded¹

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$389.4K 2020–2020

PPP loans $389.4K

Figures by year

Year	PPP loans	Total
2020	$389.4K	$389.4K

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA⁵. Matched to this company by name and state.

Apr 16, 2020$389.4K PPP loan (first draw) from JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association⁵To VICTORY AUTO WRECKERS, INC., Bensenville IL; $391.8K forgiven Dec 4, 2020

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

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WikidataVictory Auto Wreckers on Wikidata
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WikipediaVictory Auto Wreckers on Wikipedia
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GLEIFVictory Auto Wreckers LEI record (549300JK6EDE4WNC2266)
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Company websiteVictory Auto Wreckers logo
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SBASBA Paycheck Protection Program loan data (FOIA), loans of $150,000 and up