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.
"I never saw anything like this," said Mike Ostrander, an account executive with Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Co., the region's biggest metal recycler. "There are a lot of good, working trucks coming in -- even an older Mercedes."
But they all have one thing in common -- they are gas guzzlers, gulping at least a gallon of petrol for every 18 miles
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