When this current administration’s “Cash For Clunkers” program was announced, classic car enthusiasts were immediately – although confoundedly – enraged. While the program was intended to pull tens of thousands of old, heavy pollutant-emitting cars off the roads while encouraging these cars owners to purchase, new cleaner-emission vehicles, it’s model year cap ensured that the more desirable classics were kept safe.

The two errors in the Cash for Clunkers program were the government’s thinking that persons who drove 25-to-30 year-old cars on a daily basis were capable of affording a payment on a new car and the classic car enthusiasts immediately thinking that Obama was after their Camaros and Mustangs. In fact, it was curious that so many persons instantly thought of their pristine ’56 Bel Air when the Cash for Clunkers title was announced.

That would be like at the announcement of a free cosmetic surgery program titled, “Makeovers For Bridge Trolls” and saying, “Hey, my wife isn’t a bridge troll!”

Anyways, the final result of the Cash for Clunkers program was the utter devastation of thousands of late ’70’s and 80’s vehicles, both foreign and domestic. While many a salvage yard’s crushers were hard at work compressing Monte Carlos into Bite Size Snickers bars, SSI had a far more entertaining idea: shredding.

With their new “Will it shred” program, SSI has been showing how their monster PRI-MAX shredder can devour cars whole (besides the powertrain, which is always removed beforehand). Watch in terror as SSI grinds up this gutted ’85 Dodge Daytona and be thankful that Obama didn’t pass a Cash for Classics program.