1.   My father, brilliant at stripping cars and putting them back together, encouraged my interest in dismantling bicycles, old radios, antique clocks.

2.   Basketball courts became junkyards for stripped cars.

3.   Co-workers remember Newbury as a cheerful man who liked to strip cars.

4.   In both cases, they were in the act of stripping the cars, which happens all too frequently along Atlanta freeways.

5.   So he sought out a support system, falling into a crowd whose idea of a natural high was stripping cars.

6.   Where others saw a desolate stretch of burned-out buildings, garbage-cluttered sidewalks and stripped cars, he saw an opportunity.

7.   By day, rebel soldiers ran amok through the streets, stripping cars and stealing anything they could grab.

8.   In response, telltale license plates were eliminated, highway signs were improved, police patrols were boosted and rental companies stripped their cars of all markings.

9.   Israeli and Palestinian police found his bloodstained car Friday night in a refugee camp outside Jericho, in an area where stolen cars are stripped.

10.   Israeli police had found his bloodstained car Friday night in a refugee camp outside Jericho, in an area where stolen cars are stripped.