A car crusher is an industrial device used to reduce the dimensions of derelict (depreciated) automobiles prior to transport for recycling.

Car crushers are compactors and can be of two types: "pancake", where a scrap automobile is flattened by a huge descending hydraulically-powered plate, or the baling press type, with which the automobile is compressed from several directions until it resembles a large cube.

Car crushers can be stationary or mobile.

[edit] Car crushers in popular culture

Car crushers have been popular in films as devices of murder or humour. They have appeared in such well known films as Goldfinger, National Lampoon's Vacation, I'll Never Forget What's'isname and Gone in 60 Seconds.

[edit] See also

• Vehicle recycling
• Beat the Crusher, a UK TV show featuring cars demolished by a car crusher
• César Baldaccini, a baled car artist, now deceased
• James Squillante, a mobster reputedly crushed in his own car.