European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes August 1985 photo by Bob Hoyer a Volkswagen Beetle is loaded on a flatbed truck for trip to the crushing old ears Fate a real crunch old cars end up in but they never in the grand scheme of they Are picked Over for then reworked Back into Metal for along the Way a kind of Slaughter takes Many owners Are unaware of what happens to their discarded often relatively goo looking cars Are turned in for at the Pioneer stripping Yard in Hanau the White Volkswagen Beetle looked fit for one of those weekend journeys it had so often made on the German the paint was still the body free of dents and the Interior cleaner than those of Many cars still on the but the appearance was a closer look revealed that parts were missing and the engine had been after Kilometres Miles the final owner of the Beetle decided he had along with dozens of discarded it awaited its inevitable moving methodically through the a Crane grasped one car after another in giant steel in Short order the cars were pounded on the ground to reduce their then stacked on a flatbed As the Crane approached the White Yard manager Stan Desveaux Shook his that Crane makes mince meat of everything it he in a Way its a sad ending for cars that have provided so much under the pressure of the cranes powerful the roof of the Beetle collapsed like a Hail of Glass from the crushed windows sprayed the Macadam sur face of the at the controls of the scrap handler Hans Bochnia seemed to enjoy his tossing the Beetle As a lion would handle a he hammered it on the ground three then battered the roof with the closed jaws of the Crane before loading it on a bound for the Bochnia smiled As the jaws of the Crane made Short work of a Green a Gray opel and a red All three were loaded on the at Yard after Yard the scene is once autos Are stripped of they must be hauled off to make room for a steady Supply of cars donated by service at the main Kastel scrap handler Johann Greif spends a Day a week purging the premises of stripped carrying two or three cars at a he hauls them to a scrapyard for we need to get rid of 15 cars a if we dont things get an attendant from the main Kastel its just a 10minute drive to a crushing Yard of Walter Trapp one of Ger Many larger scrap on the Banks of the All through the Day trucks Laden with workout autos arrive at a Crane lifts cars from the trucks into a giant where in seconds they Are crushed to a fraction of their original stacked High above the the flattened car casses await their eventual Date with the although Worth no More than to per car the old cars make a valuable contribution to the reclamation in the end they May be used in numerous steel were just the first link in the Greif eventually the steel from these old cars goes into German and italian a blend of new and old steel is used in the production of new Bob Hoyer push j 5tanp j ing by in our washing i ton stupio15 Porter j How Jip you Kate the in have to 6m Bush very High 01 or u the Speaks Wing w Bush m nation Faith in ourselves As a nation Wurz witness to is Affif a6r5at today crossword by Eugene Sheffer across Friday 5 stubborn one 9 obstacle 12 wild of 13 store window sign 14 jackies 2nd 15 basketball stopper 17 Scotland Yard 18 eternities 19 actor Paul 21 Snake 24 zone 25 exclamation 26 estimates 30 As wine 31 knobs 32 actress Gardner 33 assume control 35 Flat bottomed boat 36 tanners Bath 37 two wheelers 38 greek Market place 40 tag on a Sale item 42 fasten 43 behind the scenes 48 pub order 49 girls name 50 Pitcher 51 there above 52 discharge 53 Chest sound Down 1 chatter idly 2 once lifetime 3 fabled Bird 4 cagers 5 the and sixpence 6 javanese tree 7 Irish sea god 8 eternal 9 retrace ones Steps 10 met Solo 11 frees 16 Feather Scarf 20 Eskimo knife 21 throw 22 Olive Genus 23 vertebrae 24 buddy or Max 26 stir 27 ending for Imp or stamp 28 old orgy cry 29 adages 31 memorable 34 sense to yesterdays Puzzle Organ 35 one of the family 37 encore 38 on equal 39 Western monster 40 play Start 41 card game 44 goal 45milkflsh 46 jell like substance 47 before solution time 26 21 38 4t 5t 22 39 23 36 18 34 16 31 43 49 52 13 26 44 27 40 24 41 19 37 20 35 50 53 14 17 32 45 10 28 46 11 29 47 86 Hubert amp what pop rive the