The coolest car you've ever destroyed?

They're wrong, that's a cool truck.

 

What kind of car is that?

 

Oh, yer gonna hate me. It was the summer of ’66 and I was putting together my Deuce 5 window and I needed an engine. I really wanted a flathead so I bought my grandfathers pristine ’51 Merc four door for a princely sum of $25. Yeah, we took the engine out and then (because, after all, it was a four door) promptly beat the shit out of it with sledges and splitting mauls. Some peoples kids.

 

A couple 58' Ford F-100's. But those I guess were the only ones you guys might think are cool. I personally think they are ugly as shit.

I cant even count how many cars we have taken to the scrap yard. (non HAMB cars)

 

Hey Scoob
I destroyed a '71 Mach I.
It wasn't mine, but I did intentionaly drive it over an embankment at speed and into the river. The folks behind me never figured out where I went and the owner was only mad for awhile.

I wadded up a Henry J Gasser in a test 'n' tune session when I was pretty young. Probably driver error.
We put it back together to the tune of a new front end and hammering some wrinkles out of the roof. But that car was jinxed; the regular driver stuck the throttle open in the stageing lanes and didn't hit the kill switch soon enough about a month after we got it back up.
Rebuilt it again, and lost a brand new M&H racemaster on the big end, it was pretty much beyond repair that time and went to the bone yard after that.

But nobody died.

 

man, i just realized that so far, i've only destroyed pieces of shit!

one time, i didn't destroy the car, but came close...had a datsun 310 winter beater. paid $50 for it and it had less than 50,000 miles on it, but rusty. painted it flat black, and picked up some stencils and lettered it ACME RALLY TEAM, along with other racing nomenclature to match my buddies toyota celica painted the same way. well first good snow of the year, i'm driving home from a late night at work, pull into the parking lot of the local PORNO SHOP!...i think i needed papers or something, well i was goin balls to the walls, maybe a little too much balls to the walls, plow right into a parked 90's charger, Shelby i think, busted the taillight, bumper, rippled the quarter panel, and had witnesses(not like i WOULDN'T do the right thing!) so into the porn shop i go to find the owner of the car i hit. they find him in one of the jack off booths! took him out and showed him the damage, i think he was so embarrassad to be caught in the porn shop that he said not to worry about it! dude must have been blind cause his car took a pretty good hit! so i got the fuck outta there before the guy came to his senses.

 

1957 Bug. 3 years to build. 6 weeks to destroy. I don't street race any more. At least while Green onions is playing on the stereo.

 

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SAVAGES! You're all gonna burn in hell!

...and I should be in charge by then, so see ya soon.

Especially the guy that beat his car to death with a 3lb sledge!?? GOD DAMN! I've been pissed but, fuck!! That's just.. wow.. shit.. hey ya know what? I have some people I want you to meet. They're assholes, I figure I'll keep my trusty steel pipe and I'll buy you a new 3lb sledge.

 

Back in 1973 I split a 1964 1/2 Mustang in half. I hit a tree sideways. After the accident I crawled out the back of the car from between the front bucket seats. Ended up in the hospital for about a week.

 

Me and a buddy cut up a 14,000 mile 68 z-28 and made a bracket racer. It was his car. TP

 

Next time I get mad, I'll PM ya to see who's first on your list!

 

'53 or '54 Pontiac, the ones who's taillights and grilles end up on so many other cars -

 

I parted out and cannabalized a '64 Ranchero a few years ago.... It was a solid Texas car that was redone in the late 70s, wrecked and it sat outside for a long time... The top half of the car was solid but the underside had some heavy scale.... I parted it out and scrapped the shell. It kinda sucked but I made some money.

My first car was a 71 Torino that was pretty original with low miles... Being 16 I jumped it, did burnouts, drove with no exhaust, etc.... I drove it one PA winter and it got pretty rusty... I then modified it with GT parts and sold it on eBay...from what I hear the current owner drives it daily. I should have left it stock, I liked it more that way, belive it or not.

 

I was dirt track racing in the late 60's. I bought a CHERRY 1955 Chevy convertible for $ 125. and cut the body off so I could use the X frame for my dirt tracker. STUPID ! STUPID ! STUPID!

 

Well, what's the story behind that one? Looks like a pole kissed your front end...

 

I always wonder if our kids/grandkids will cry because of all the monte carlos, etc. that are cut up for street stockers? We all cry about old ford coupes during the 50's, and the 55-57 chevys and chevelles, etc. during the 60's-70's that were cut up for stock cars. They were "just old cars" like we look at the stuff being cut up today!

 

arg such horror stories my brother smacked a electrics box& pole in a 65 GTO 2Dpost in 88 he was drunk & fell asleep i was passed out in the back seat it took out cars front clip & a wire poked a hole in the rear end so on the lip home it leaked all fuild & rear siezed up right at parents yard me i totaled a 73 442 ( winter & a kid sled into me ) a 73 chevelle SS (was pass cuz lost it on mud) 73 GS 455 stage one car (drunk hit us head on)& a 92 Trofeo (dumb B#tch stopped in lane of traffic in rush hour to pick her cell phone up it had dropped on her floor ) hopping for no more crashes ever.......

 

Absolutely, you nailed it. Think about it, there are already guys fixing up 80's Firebirds, Camaros, Montes and Cutlass, Mustangs, etc. I'm actually selling a beater '85 Firebird right now. Sure it's a nothing car to me now, but the more I look at it, the more I think "I bet I'll be looking for a decent one of these to restore in 20 years".

But that's all part of the fun of it. If all of those Chevelles, '57 Chevy's and Ford coupes hadn't got run into the ground by high school kids, raced to death, or fixed up/changed around by customizers once they started selling cheap on car lots, then there wouldn't be any mystique in fixing one up 40 years later.

We want those cars because it's what we had when we were young, the cars we drove to high school or raced on the weekends or whatever. If we didn't race them to death or run them into the ground now, no one will have fond memories of them and want to fix one up in the future.

 

I've never destroyed a cool car.

Growing up in Massachusetts the best way to destroy a car was either to drive it off a bridge in Chappaquiddick or drive it through the winter.

While my GTO hibernated, my winter cars of choice were Pinto wagons. I bought the first for 50 bucks, and the second for 200. Ha ha ha... as I'm typing this I'm already laughing remembering this...

I did everything I could to kill these cars on and off the road. Stuck in 2 feet of mud about a mile from any public roads, broke the front suspensions going over jumps in the woods or power slides on rutted icy parking lots, burned the back tires off with "smoke shows" against light poles. Ungodly RPMs and hole shots all day long. Door glass gone from throwing the doors into mailboxes and trees at 50 mph on back roads.

Couldn't kill either of them. Smoking like a bastard and blowing antifreeze... I just gave up and drove each to the junkyard.
Ah memories.

 

I killed a numbers matching 69 GTO Judge with slight rust for parts for my rust free numbers matching 69 GTO Judge. No repo stuff at the time so I found one and mixed and matched the best of both cars for the one.

Killed a original running four door 55 chevy for parts we needed for a two door that was never finished and sold off as a project that ended up being crushed.

Had a buddy in high school that killed a 73 455 HO TA for parts and the mill to put into a 80 or so turbo TA. He kept the turbo hood to hide the 455. Might have been an 81...what year was the last year of those?

One of the most disgusting things I ever saw was a kid in auto paint and body right next to my auto mech class showed up in a 70 hemi cuda one day. He decided it would be his project car...they tore it apart and acid dipped it...the whole car fell apart and was cut up by the shop teachers a few years later because he left the car at the school, graduated, and never came back for it from what I was told. This was in 86 when he got it, it was killed IIRC in 88 and was a numbers matching car. I graduated in 86...it kills me to think what it would be worth and I should have bought it for the nothing he was asking for it at one point. I was told by my teacher he wanted 2000 for all of what was left, that included the 426. Then again, this was 1986 money so that was probably too much for it.

 

I guy I worked with was into demo derbing. His Kid bought a mint 79 pinto wagon last fall for this summers demo season. Last year the kid had a mint 76 mustang cobra II V-8 car that he pulled the 302 out of and put in a 4 banger for demoing. These were really nice rust free cars. In most parts of the country this may not sound like a big deal, but here in salt happy Minnesota, the only place we see pinto's and mustang II's is on Ebay! I asked him why they cut up such nice cars...the less rust, the longer they last, and the more likely we take 1st place and $1500.00! They use them for multiple derbies too.

 

I put my 1977 Porsche into a wall, downshifting from 4th gear to 3rd. Back end went way out, counter steered and floored it, but it was a lost cause. The yoakies were too worn and the road was a little damp, now mien fraulein is a little pranged.

 

This was not me. I was driving the Tow Truck. The 2006 Chevy in the photo had only 175 miles on it. The guy was from Seattle and had never been to the Ocean before. It was a complete total and the insurance company paid off the very next week. Gumpa

 

I totaled my 1969 plymouth sport satalite seven years ago. She was an all original 383 big block car with factory air and disc breaks.. I still have the original owners manual and warrenty I was the second owner. I'm gonna cry about this all over again now.

 

yea you did sell it to me

 

So I have a question for everyone here. How do you deal with completely wadding up your pride and joy. Seriously, I've been in the fetal position wearing my sweat pants ever since.

 

Never gonna happen, because unlike the cars of the teens, twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties, cars made today have no soul.

 

ive seen this alot! tide chart, a handy piece of information beach tourist.

 

CadillacKid i dont quite agree. My mustang very mutch had a soul and its very unhappy with me.

I have totalled one car. My pride and joy 1998 Mustang GT. i was going around a rotary during a big rain storm and hit a puddle that was about 8 inches deep. started fishtailing and couldnt recover. I went straight into a guard rail.

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