What car would you drive completely roached out?

[Photon440]

 

[Bb70charger500]

One of my first cars is as exactly as you described... 69 camaro, rust and bondo everywhere. Carpet was trashed, the hole for the 4 speed looked like it was cut with an axe. It was pretty raggedy but I paid for it with my own money... $700 IIRC.
It was a piece that I could not afford to do anything with as a teenager...

You had carpet?!!!?

 

[Bb70charger500]

Now that I think about it my pass door fell off going down the road the Hing pins gave up they were rusty . And the windshield wiper arm flew off during a sevire rain storm . God I miss that car

 

[BeeKool]

Farm trucks. Reliable & easily repaired
Have several
Early 80s Chebby 4×4s
Mid 90s Dakotas 4&2wds
Early 00s F350 7.3L 4×4

 

[YY1]

They are only original and/or unmolested ONCE.

 

[67440chrg]

A 1969 Coronet wagon

 

[Larrry B.]

My daily driver - a rusty '71 Challenger. I pulled the original, running /6 (for rebuild) and dropped in a '98 5.9L from a 198k mile Durango I picked up for $400. It scoots along just fine. Best part is, if I ever blow the motor, I'll swap the manifold onto another worn out 360 and resume shredding tires and commuting to work.

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You win.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

My first car was a 76 yellow dodge colt I bought it simply to learn how to drive a stick. I drove it around my half acre lot and taught myself how to drive it. My brother stole it and left it out in the power lines rolled over on its side. I had a wrecker get it and brought it back. Kept on driving it around the yard. All 4 wheels were warped and it looked like the Griswalds car after they jumped the truckster.

 

[Greg Ducato]

I would drive most anything pre 1977 that was ratty, some of my most fond memories of cars and adventure were in scruffy looking but good running old cars. Our motto was "look she may, run she must".

 

[Kern Dog]

My daily driver - a rusty '71 Challenger. I pulled the original, running /6 (for rebuild) and dropped in a '98 5.9L from a 198k mile Durango I picked up for $400. It scoots along just fine. Best part is, if I ever blow the motor, I'll swap the manifold onto another worn out 360 and resume shredding tires and commuting to work.

I remember you....we have talked at the Van Nuys Spring Fling a few times. I remember when you got that Challenger and brought it to Woodley the morning of the Malibu cruise.

 

[67Charger]

That was me. Car still looks the same, just has a 5.9L out of a $400 Durango in it now.

 

[AustinGriggs]

I like this one...

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Glad to see my car made it to FBBO before i did! Glad you like it, you can come race against me in it Oct 19th at the #MoparVsBrandXstreetcarShowdown! Open invite to all! see https://www.facebook.com/austinsmusclecarclinic/

 

[Magazineman]

I've had a ton of fun in some really crappy cars. And less fun in some really nice ones. Case in point: The 305 powered 1926 Dodge Brothers Coupe I got for cheap. Ratty, leaky, too loud (zoomies) and broke a lot. Drove & handled like a lawn tractor.

Fixed the throttle linkage with barbed wire, on the roadside, in the rain. Broke a motor mount doing a burnout at a burger joint. Fixed that with pallet wood and a motorcycle tie-down then left it that way for months. Had to hold the shifter in place with my knee. Had an actual diaper strapped under the Rear Main seal leak.

Man! That heap was a good time! Then I re-did the whole car. Installed a healthy, gear-driven 350, a good trans, rebuilt the front end, got full exhaust out the back.Good tires, Made a roof panel, laid Dyna Mat + new carpet, paint, and interior. It was now pretty + faster, smoother & quieter.

I RUINED THE CAR!!!!!!!!! It now felt like a damn Corolla. That was a huge mistake. Everything that had made the car great was gone.

I had turned a hilarious, badass fire-breathing steam locomotive into a commuter train. Fast, smooth, quiet, and boring as needlepoint.

 

[6PKRTSE]

Any 80's wagon from Michigan: View attachment 624026

Looks just like my Michigan truck.

 

[6PKRTSE]

I want a roached Charger to drive like the Roadkill 68'.

 

[Magazineman]

Yes, The long rows of perfect, gleaming rides at car shows bore me. I'm instinctively drawn to the crap piles. I can relate to them and they remind me of the good times I had in my broke youth. When muscle cars were what you drove BECAUSE you were broke youth.

When I had my crummy first car ('73 Camaro) I thought I wanted a new Porsche 928 or a shiny Jag XJS. Now I have the dough to get the Porsch or the Jag, or both.

But I'm not interested in those anymore. I don't want to smell leather, I want to smell oil.

 

[Kern Dog]

Follow an old Ford!

 

[NoCar2023]

Most of the cars I've owned.
The current car is the most hideous of them all.

 

[Under Pressure]

God bless this guys love of his car, he said “this is my driver, got another one too” it came in under its own power to a small local cruise couple weeks ago
Had to be in his late 80’s and was proud that it has lasted him this many years

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

We took the maiden voyage in Tommy's '64 Fury 'vert this past weekend. Put 60 miles on the 440/4-speed/3.91 gears. No top yet, and the interior is as you describe...no carpet, and a red bench seat out of the race car because the original has a broken frame. It is a blast, though not legal yet. I have tags and insurance, but it did not pass PA inspection due to no turn signals (need to replace the switch), and no parking brake (new kit from Inline Tube purchased). Tommy turned 16 last week. We've been working on this car for 14 years. I know it doesn't show, but the engine compartment is painted, new suspension front and rear, under carriage scraped and undercoated, disc brakes up front...View attachment 624342

Man I would drive this