Cherished Cars Scrapped For Clunker Cash

FROM DETROIT FREE PRESS:  If you see an auto buff wailing in grief and rending their Bob Seger T-shirt, here’s why: The U.S. government paid someone $4,500 to destroy a 1987 Buick GNX.

It’s one of the vintage rides sent to the great beyond by the cash-for-clunkers program, which was designed to swoop aging trucks off the streets and wound up luring a few classics as well.  MORE>