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Growing scrap heap

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Growing scrap heap

Date12/13/1982

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Dunlop, Al (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Growing scrap heap: Metro is becoming just a bigger version of this kind of vehicle graveyard; police say. With the recession in the steel industry; auto wreckers are reluctant to take in the cars and; if they do; pay only a fraction of previous prices. Police estimate between 4;000 and 5;000 of Metro's 1 million cars have been abandoned.

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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0010286F

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