An old, beat-up pickup truck driven primarily by undocumented Mexicans or Latin Americans in large city neighborhoods used to collect all manner of metal garbage and trash. Typically these pickups rumble through the alleys and streets on a predictable schedule. Many neighbors anticipate the comings around of these rusty heaps and remind each other to 'put out that pesky iron bedrail, microwave oven body or spare tire rim' so that these conquerors of junk can do their rightful jobs.
Look, ma! The junquistador is coming down the street and he's grabbed Billy's bike by accident!
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.