As a child, you may remember collecting flowers and sticking them between two pages of a thick book.
A few days later they would be fragile and paper-thin, but would last an eternity.
According to Arad, he is not destroying the cars, but immortalising them.
Each car was put sideways in the press and then smashed mercilessly.
The result was a 12-centimeter-thick metal sandwich.
Arad says he used a “little makeup” on the squashed cars.
Arad first experimented with model cars and a small press before moving on to the real thing.
Normally, the press was used to form ship’s parts.
The unusual use of the press was so entertaining that shipyard workers brought their families to watch.
“They made a real festival out of it,” he says.
