Hunting Down Bruce, The 'Jaws' Shark

Cory Turner posts a story with NPR about his lifelong obsession with, and search for, Bruce, the mechanical shark from 'Jaws'. His quest led him to Adlen's U Pick Parts auto yard where he hoped a surviving original (there were 4 copies made) of Bruce was stored:

We met at Adlen's U Pick Parts auto yard. Adlen led us through a compound of buildings, through a garage and a pair of gates until we emerged into a sea of junked cars — 26 acres' worth — and a tiny oasis of palms and loquat plants. In the middle of that oasis, atop two metal poles, was a shark. Its skin was cracked; its color badly faded. Instead of rows of menacing teeth, it had harmless wooden dentures.

...But was it Bruce? Alves thought so, but he deferred to Arbogast. Arbogast walked under the belly of the beast, poking it with the handle of a rake. Then he stopped. I watched him, anxiously awaiting a verdict.

NPR has the rest of the story along with a bunch of very cool pix I've never seen of Bruce both on-set and in storage.