Watch the feds crush a classic Mini for breaking the law

Twenty-five years. In classic car circles, it's the bright blue line between a vehicle that's old enough to be easily imported to the United States from another country, and one that can only come in if its shown to meet all modern U.S. safety standards — a bar so high that clearing it would typically require the car in question be crash-tested. That doesn't stop hundreds of people every year from trying to sneak high-dollar imports past customs, even though the law enforcement tools for spotting them have never been stronger.

To emphasize their point, U.S. and British officials gathered on Thursday in a snowy junkyard in central New Jersey for the crushing of a classic Rover Mini that had been caught in a federal dragnet. It's not the first, and it won't be the last.