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I found this article very said.
This is an intriguing photograph captioned just ‘Autos ready to be destroyed’. The year is 1938 and the venue is a scrapyard in what has to be the Massachusetts area. Look closely and you will see that several of the cars on that huge pile have words painted on them as some kind of warning. We can read: ‘Death-Trap’, ‘Condemned', 'Dangerous’, ‘Unsafe’, ‘The Last Ride’

I'm sorry I can't make the picture bigger. Well now I can't seem to get the picture attached. I can't even delete this post

Interesting glimpse into the past. A little More can be found here: https://www.prewarcar.com/dangerous-death-traps-to-burn

From the Article:

"What’s going on here? We found Paul B. Smith to be an authorized Ford, Chrysler, and Plymouth dealer back in the 1930s. And, aided by a traffic safety campaign, this dealer must have advised the car’s owner to have it scrapped in this rather vigorous way. This was an answer to the problem of what to do with the increasing number of old cars, many of them deemed unsafe, that filled the American roads and supposedly killed thousands a year.

At least we can say that it’s not only the safety of our cars that have improved over the decades – the way of getting rid of them has also certainly been improved upon!"

Primo, that is the web site that I copied the article from. It was very interesting.