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Film of the day: American scrapyard, 1960s
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:26 am    Post subject: Film of the day: American scrapyard, 1960s Reply with quote
A vast American scrapyard is the subject of this film clip, some of the cars didn't look rotted out or crashed, so was it just changing fashions that saw so many getting weighed in rather than repaired/maintained?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK7-PQoYdzw

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COMMAD



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad What a waste of motoring Gems.... Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It was called planned obsolecence.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Presumably,contamination of the steel by glass ,rubber,etc.was not an issue!I guess your flash new car eventually sprung up from this pile of junk Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
After watching that I stumbled upon this one about a railway scrapyard

http://youtu.be/maIH-80O5NM
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