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Louis Padnos Iron & Metal works with local Art Group participating in the Grand Rapids Art Prize contest.

Source: Grand Rapids Family Tree

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Scrapyard spotlight: Junkers are jettisoned and cash registers jingle

Holland, MI — Anyone emotionally attached to their recently swapped vehicle in the “cash for clunkers” program may want to skip the next few paragraphs.

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Some West Michigan scrap yards find Cash for Clunkers program to be a pain in the wrecks

GRAND RAPIDS -- Gas-guzzling rust buckets are nothing new for West Michigan's scrap yards but, in just a week, Cash for Clunkers drove the junk car specialists into situations they never before imagined.

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Confusion for clunkers: Scrap dealers end up with cars junked under federal program

GRAND RAPIDS -- Gas-guzzling rust buckets are nothing new for West Michigan's scrap-yard industry, but in just a week, the ``cash-for-clunkers'' program drove the junk-car specialists into situations never before imagined.

``I never saw anything like this,'' said Mike Ostrander, an account executive with Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Co., Kent County's biggest metal recycler.

``There are a lot of good, working trucks coming in. Even an older Mercedes,'' Ostrander said.

But they all have one thing in common: They're gas guzzlers, gulping a gallon of petrol in less than 18 miles.

Padnos metal shredders already chewed up more than 100 cash-for-clunkers vehicles in the first week of the program.

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