FRANKFORT, N.Y. (WKTV) - The Cash for Clunkers program was so successful that government needs to pump more money into it. Car dealers, however, are not the only ones to cash in on the program.

Once your old clunker is traded in, the dealer sells that vehicle to scrap metal yards. Crash's Scrap Metal, in Frankfort, is one scrap yard cashing in on clunkers.

Co-owner Joe Basi says buying old cars and selling the scrap metal is part of their business anyway, but this program is adding to it. "We have gotten in about 120 - 125 vehicles so far since the program started." Basi said.

The Crash brothers have clunkers piled up. Wednesday afternoon one trailer carrying about a dozen crushed clunkers were being hauled out of the scrap metal yard. However, before the cars are crushed, and sent out to be melted down into new metal, they have to be prepared.

The cars that come in for crushing must be drained of all fluids, and then gutted. Basi says the gas tanks must also be taken out of the vehicles before they are crushed.

After the cars are prepped, they are loaded onto a machine that flattens them. Basi says the machine supplies 10-tons of pressure.

"Basically the older pick up trucks, SUV's the big V-8 engines, all that have very low gas mileage are coming in. Some of the bigger cars like Cadillac,

The co-owner says the process takes about two days.