When the model A came out, Henry Ford discovered that there were so many model T's on road that it was deterring sales of new cars, so he would pay his Ford dealers a bounty of $25 each to take the T model trade-ins and destroy them instead of reselling them. My father found a pit on the Missouri river near St. Joseph, MO where a dealer had smashed with a bulldozer and buried dozens of model T's. My dad salvaged enough parts to make several complete cars back in the 1950's.