Some people call it the “March of Progress,” others call it residential development. Whatever you want to call the ever-encroaching world of today, it is becoming abundantly clear to many car enthusiasts that many Americans don’t care for cars the way they used to, and see many classic car salvage yards as more a nuisance a piece of American nostalgia.

Case in point, Junkyard Life reports that a historic Dover, Pennsylvania salvage yard is in the process of crushing more than 900 vehicles, many of them American classics, to make way for residential housing developments.

This is much the same problem drag strips and race tracks across the country are facing, as housing developers increasingly encroach on previously-undeveloped land surrounding many of these racing venues. C&B Salvage in Dover, PA was bought seven years ago by John Baughman.

At the time the salvage yard was surrounded by farmland, which will soon be developed into housing. The developers sued C&B Salvage claiming it was unsightly, and Baughman was forced to close the yard and scrap many of these classic cars to clear the 45 acres of salvage yard.

It is infuriating to us that developers and yuppie home owners have the audacity to move in somewhere and then complain about a venue (in this case a junkyard) that has long been there. There is a silver lining though, as when word spread about this closing, people turned up in droves hoping to score a classic or rare part.

Many of the cars will be saved too, including a bunch of Tri-Five Chevy’s, a Mercury Marauder V8 engine, and a few complete Mopars, but a majority of the 900+ cars on the property were crushed to save space. Even so, these yuppie bastards should learn a thing or two about being a good neighbor. Don’t want to hear race cars or look at a salvage yard? Move somewhere else.