Reminds me of what I witnessed years ago when I was restoring a 64 Chevelle. I was in a junkyard looking for missing pieces of chrome for my car. The yard manager told me to wait in the office until his guy that knew the yard could help me find what I wanted. So I was standing outside, just killing time, and here came a flatbed semi truck with a pile of crushed cars on it, going to the melter. The cars were obviously 1920s and 30s autos. I was flabergasted! Any one of these cars would be worth more to a collector than the whole bunch crushed. As I stood there for about 15 minutes or so, at least 4 more trucks left the yard. I asked the yard manager what was going on, and he said, "yeah, we're getting rid of all those old cars out back". I couldn't believe the shortsightness of the thinking. This was 1977 or so, the height of the street rod restoration craze. The money and material that was wasted! What a waste.
