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August 28, 2008

High scrap metal prices slam demolition derbies

  • The sport is becoming unaffordable to some because scrap dealers are bidding up prices of crashable cars.
    • By VICKI SMITH
    Associated Press Writer

    AP Photo/David Distelhorst, News-Messenger [enlarge]
    Demolition derbies, such as this one in Oak Harbor, Ohio, are seeing fewer participants because of escalating gas prices and more expensive junkers.

    REEDSVILLE, W.Va. — Mud is flying, smoke and steam are rising, and the deafening roar of V-8 engines all but drowns out 5-year-old Shelby Scott's screams.


     
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