European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Parts and parcels popularity of stripping is tatting Oft How about contributing that old Clunker to a worthy cause by donating your unwanted vehicle to a military stripping you can help others keep their cars on the its a simple just drive up to any Yard and Complete the paperwork in a matter of stripping Yards Are available to military car owners in Germany and where 75 percent of service members privately owned vehicles in Europe Are Regis customs regulations limit or prohibit the use of Mili tary stripping Yards in other details on How to donate a car to a stripping or How to junk it at a government property disposal Are available at vehicle registry or Auto Craft shop out last year about cars were Given to stripping Yards in and the number has been despite a surge in still More cars Are military morale welfare officials who operate Yards say they never get enough in Europe 36 Yards 25 operated by the 10 by the air Force and one by the Navy provide expensive spare parts that keep thousands of old ars running at minimal maintenance with their growing popularity the Yards Are picked lean of most action takes place in the summer when after Tours mechanics crawl Over and into old cars in search of everything from Windshield wipers and Anten ice to transmissions and when the Weathers Good we get up to 400 visitors ver a says Tony manager of the sch born stripping Yard North of age 16 the stars and stripes with a variety of cars to pick the Ramstein Yard averages 100 visitors a in a Busy visitors logged onto the at the Navy base in the strip Yard is busiest on with the increasing patronage of the we can always use More says Bill v corps arts and crafts who monitors Yard Usa eur strip Yards came into being just five years ago and the program has really taken said Tom chief of arts and crafts 1st person Nel at Rhei main Duke manager of the Auto skills said the stripping Yard keeps the base clean of old autos and provides Low Cost parts to car morale welfare officials would like to see cars donated to stripping instead of to property Dispo Sal where their parts will be the stripping Yard is a Good Way to dispose of the car because it is a source of spare parts at inexpensive and the carcasses then Are sold to scrap Deal ers by morale welfare Parsons in this Way the service members get the Benefit of reasonably priced parts and the proceeds from the stripping Yards stay in the in an Effort to Channel More cars into stripping a form the Usa eur application for vehicle now provides two disposal in the event of by signing Section 26a of the the owner do nates his abandoned car to the government for Dispo by signing Section the owner donates the abandoned car to a Community morale support fund or a welfare and recreation which Means it August 1985 ends up in an army or air Force stripping with More cars producing More stripping Yards have become More Rago says the increased Revenue from sales has made most usar eur stripping Yards at Pioneer stripping Yard in manager Stan Desveaux reports monthly sales Are running about with a record sales figure for april of in additional to the Revenue from the Sale of we get Money for the crushed Desveaux at Rhei main Snyder says stripping Yard sales run a while All Yards need some make it easier than others for owners to donate their in some communities broke Down vehicles Are towed to Yards at no expense to at other communities the owner is responsible for getting the car to the a lot of cars Are towed to the Yard by the motor and we now have our own Tow says Jones at who need information on donating their cars should Check a strip a vehicle registry office or an Auto Craft its really quite an easy proce in Ramstein a donor receives for a car driven to the stripping if the car Doest run the Yard will accept it As Long As towing costs Are less than the scrap value of the the Sembach stripping Yard will Tow inoperative vehicles if they Are less than 50 Kilometres 31 Miles from the As easy As it is to donate a car to the its even easier to use