Ever bought a cheap car to trash?
 

Lately I've kinda been thinking about buying a really cheap car (<$500) and just taking it out to go drifting and do donuts and such. I was thinking about something beatup and rear wheel drive like a 80's Camaro, 240SX, or a 70's Nissan Z car. I really just want to explore my driving skills without having to worry about damaging an expensive car. So I'm thinking that when it breaks down I'd just sell it to a salvage yard. Anybody ever try this or have any interest in it?

lol that would be way fun...

have you seen that video with the 1:1 scale remote control car? they rigged up remote control steering and whatnot to the car and just completely trashed it...

me and my freinds used to pool money and buy an old smallblock olds. THey ussually lasted about 12 hours of fun before it stopped moving in the sand pit, so wed just push them off to the side and torch it.

Yeah I saw them do that on Junkyard Wars. I'm not that ambitious. I honestly can't imagine how cool it would feel to have a car that you didn't care one iota about. I have to resist the urge to just go "Dukes of Hazard" style trying to jump bridges.

I would really like to explore the handling and my ability to control a vehicle that's at it's handling limits. Performance driving schools would be nice but they are expensive and you spend such a short time there. Autocross is kinda the same way, it's always so crowded that you wait all day just to run the course a couple of times. How do you get practice? that's why I want to take a piece of junk out somewhere and just have fun.

Me and my friends bought a 1981 Buick lesabre sedan, it lasted for about a month before we blew both headgaskets. Nothing beats jumping manure piles in a field.

Found it! http://www.ircuser.org/files1/RCCar_video.wmv

WOW that was a cool video. And holy crap, that old Camry was built like a tank! Just those ramps it hit alone would have been enough to buckle the frame of a lot of cars, but it survived those plus flipping over TWICE without even breaking a window..I must say I'm impressed!

I hadn't seen that. That completely kicks ass. I wonder how fast it was going at the end?

:) ford LTD... $250 and it lasted 6 months.. much cheaper than renting a car.

Anyone have pictures of their cheap car? Also when it finally broke down, what was the problem?

yah thats the video...

hehe
man now i wanna buy a shitty car to fuck around in like that... need a place to do it tho... guess just a field somewhere...

A long time ago I would buy a car every summer to run in the demolition derby at the county fair.

That was fun. :)

Yeah finding a place where you won't get arrested seems to be the toughest part.

That dude pissing on the engine to put out the fire was hilarious.

A friend in High School had a 1978 Baby Blue Grand Prix that we took on many a jumping off road adventures. That thing was a beast and we took it places I wouldn't take my 4x4 truck and it held together like a tank. I think he finally gave it to Cars for Cancer and it still ran.

I owned a 1978 Honda accord LX

The thing ran like a tank, I drove off a 12-14 foot "cliff" with a parking lot below (long story, not on purpose) And although it crushed my blinkers and dented the bottom, the car still ran find.

It had a "Hondamatic" transmission, which basically means there are only 2 gears, and there is no clutch to shift.

The unfortunate end come when I blew the headgasket... I still drove it for a few days after it was blown, but then came to the conclusion that a top speed of 40 miles per hour just wasn't cutting it.... Not to mention the white smoke that would billow out from everywhere (the cliff incident broke the exhause pipe under the car) when I started it

Damnit, I can't get the picture to work...

Anyway, that beast ran after -
12-14 foot "cliff" dive
Hitting a telephone pole at a 25-30 mile an hour clip
Having a truck smash into it while parked on the street
Neglecting to add/change the oil for over 16000 miles :D

I once had a 1973 (4?) Laguna come into my possesion. Free if I could move it.

It had been terribly neglected, had a hand painted-you-can-see-the-brush-marks finish on the passenger side. No cover on the trunk. duct tape covering one of the rear mini-windows. No tread on the rear tires.

All I had to do was rebuild the carb, get new plugs and distributor cap to bring the old 454 roaring back to life. Well, coughing, sputtering, smoking back to life on intermittantly all the cylinders. We had to weld the passenger door on after the first time I opened it, the whole bloody thing came off. Spray painted "01" on the side for effect.

Lasted two days untill a small jump combined with a heavy engine and very worn out shocks resulted in a 'small' oil leak. The oil pan somehow mostly ripped off. Sold it for $250 to whomever could move it.

Ha! That was an awesome video.

I have (and am currently driving) a '91 Tracker that I'm probably going to thrash once I get something new. I'd like to take it to a dirt track and ramp it once or twice.

I once bought a toyota corrolla SR5 (one of the rwd jobs) to tied me over until my insurance settement went through with the intention of driving the piss out of it. Which I did, for 180,000kms, at which point I sold it for twice what I had into it. Bloody indistructable.

Man if you trash a Nissan 240SX or 300ZX I would want to hit you upside the head. Get a old Chevy V8. I got a350 in my van I love getting sideways in the rain:D

If I got a 240sx or a 300ZX I would concentrate on drifting. But I wouldn't care if I did trash them. If I got a corolla then I'd just trash it.

That always sounded like a fun idea and me and my friend were thinking of doing it, but how the hell do you guys not get stopped by cops?

well a post 1980's 300ZX...go crazy but a 90 and up then you would have to be brain dead to smash up a sports car like that!


and well all 240SX's are nice!

If you smashed up a 240z it would warrant a beating for maiming a classic. But ah well, find something with a bit of guts and you should be able to give it some gun for a while, bit of a laugh. Are RX7s cheaply priced there? You could thrash them for a long time with engine holding up very well as long as you gave it some warming up before hitting the gas. But that'd be a sad waste of beautiful car to me as well.

I have a 91 300ZX Twinturbo. I love that car. I've spent lots of money on it. That's why I'm looking for another car to trash. And I also love the 240Z but if I found one for less than $500 bucks it would probably cost a fortune to restore so I wouldn't mind trashing it.

Nice there are 3, 300ZX's in Kingston here, all are twinturbo also, I want to get one but 10,000 dollar loan is a little high then Insurance.


240Z, don't think I have seen one of those before. I guess they are rare?

Not really rare they're just old. They're the original Z from the 70's.

A friend and i pitched in on a $200.00 Chevy chevette and beat it to death. Big jumps hurt passengers. Not near as fun as it looks on the Dukes Of Hazzard. Rolled it twice the first time I was driving and my buddy learned to keep his hands inside smashed his fingers between the roof and the ground. Smashed fingers was the only injury we sustained that really counted the whole time we had the car. It finally succumbed to a jump off of a road. We hit a corner doing about 50 and intentionally continued straight into an open area. Total drop from road was 12-15 feet grass was covering the rocks that destroyed the motor and front end. We then hooked it up to an old dodge power wagon and just took off down the gravel road. No one was in the car. It rolled off of the road a few times and was drug upside down for over a mile at one point. It finally rolled off of the road into a large ditch. The bridge we were jerked to a stop on made it impossible to pull it back out so we unhooked the chains and left it there. Hell we never even registered it just kept to the back roads and destroyed it. It took 3 weeks to totally destroy it and we had a hard time even going to work or anything else for that matter because we had so much fun trashing the car. It was a lot tougher than we thought it was.

That video was sweet. You know that last jump that finally did the car in? Yeah, I did that in a sandrail. Not the funnest thing when your seat is solid plastic.

The Chevette sounds like a perfect vehicle. I bet I could get one of those for $100.

Wow never have seen one of them....guess I should take a look!

I say it was a little hot when it took it's final breath! LOL Look like lots o fun!

Well I guess the 350Z took over for the 300ZX now they just need a 240(something) to tae over for the 240Z and 240SX