wrecking cars
Smashing up vehicles
Wrecking cars refers to the activity or business of dismantling damaged, abandoned, or obsolete vehicles to salvage usable parts and materials.
A wrecking yard or car wrecker buys vehicles that are no longer roadworthy and strips them for components that can be resold or recycled.
The phrase can also describe the act of deliberately destroying cars, whether through demolition derbies, stunts, or vandalism: He spent his twenties wrecking cars and getting into trouble.
- totalledDestroyed or summed
- total lossIrreparably damaged item
- junkyardSalvage storage site
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- scrapyardSalvage lot for vehicles
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