What is the rarest car you saw abused?

[Little6pack]

I would have to say I saw for many years a 69 Orbit orange Judge sitting in weeds up to the fenders in Bow NH at some hillbillys house. The car mysteriously vanished after a few years of sitting there. I only hope someone restored it.

 

[Welby]

There used to be a '69 Roadrunner that would run around locally, it was slapped on a truck frame (Probably a blazer or something) and had 35" tall tires. That qualifies as abuse, IMO :tongue:

 

[BLACK6PACK]

There was a GNX down here that ran around all over the place. It was missing the bumper fillers or they were cracked, mismatched tires, dirty and dented. I think it had over 100k miles on it.

 

[Aztlanahauc]

There is a 69 Camaro SS rotting away in a trailer park a few miles from me. Looks like it used to be blue, now it has a fine patina of surface rust. Black interior and it is a manual. Talked to a guy about 2 1/2 years ago about it. He said the old lady who owns the car will not sell it. The car belonged to her son who died back in 77.

 

[turbofish38]

I guess any car that the owner modifies, or should I say modifies badly would be abuse by my defination. My favorite is those guys that take a new Chevrolet with a small block, throw a intake,carb and headers on it and SLOW the car down. You know you read the road test in HOTROD or MotorTrend and they got a 1979 Z/28 to go 16.0 flat in the 1/4 and than a couple of months later you see Goober at the strip with the exact same car with a Jegs or Summit decal on the window and he is happy because he just did a 17 flat with the POS. And any guy that has more money than brains. About a month ago I saw a Ferrari F-something on I-4. I thought it was pretty slick until I spotted a big honking door ding in it. Jeez,I would die from embarassment if that happened to my GN. You would think with what that car cost you wouldn't be driving it as everyday transportation.

 

[Pronto]

POS pro-streeted Superbird with gigantic tires and all jacked up. Ran like pooh at NED and was never to be seen again (thankfully).

 

[darkred87T]

I would have to say I saw for many years a 69 Orbit orange Judge sitting in weeds up to the fenders in Bow NH at some hillbillys house. The car mysteriously vanished after a few years of sitting there. I only hope someone restored it.

Funny, there was one of those near where I live in Mendham NJ. It was a 69 Judge, orange w/ white interior, 4spd. It also had a factory hood tach. The guy said he wasn't going to sell it because he had plans on restoring it. I think it's still sitting in the same spot. There wasn't much left of it 5 years ago when I last saw it.

 

[750H.P.V6]

I bought a '71 GSX Stage I that was found out in the boon docks in Texas sitting next to a Mobile home (single wide) with the engine missing and weeds growing up around it. The guy who found it told me that his friend who was a repo guy had stumbled across it when he went to repo a car at the same place.

Neal

 

[vicious6]

Did you restore the GSX?

 

[INEEDAGN]

I found an 82 GN in a field about two years ago. ALL traces of the original VIN gone, no motor, or trans and most of the special stuff gone. Body was rust free and straight and I could've bought it cheap, but what the hell do you do with a car that's VINless? I've got pics of it around here somewhere.

Ask turbofish38 about his former 82 GN that was trashed. You could say it was slightly more rare..............

bob

 

[INTHEEIGHTS]

I went to a old ladys house that was selling a washer and dryer. and while i was there i noticed a car that had sh%t piled all over it. I ask what is it, she said its a 63 split window corvette. i said hmmmmmm, just cause ive restored several mid year corvettes bloomington gold cars. i took a speek inside the car automatic aircondition. my heart just about stopped. i ask how much,she said $5500.00 i said ill take that to .ill come right back went right to the bank and on the way back called a roll back to meet me there .the car was complete but needed to be restored.put points in it drained the tank and battery and drove the car.sold the car later.

 

[VinsGN]

I pulled an all original 66 Impala SS369 convertible out of lady’s backyard. Rotted to the door handles. Ended up chopping the car up, but kept of the VIN tags, motor and tranny…………………. Looking for just the right donor. :biggrin:

 

[Little6pack]

POS pro-streeted Superbird with gigantic tires and all jacked up. Ran like pooh at NED and was never to be seen again (thankfully).

I remember that day a 69 Trans am wiped him big time. Though Mr superbird came back a year later with some impressive times. He musta Spent some BIG $$ to get that SLOWPAR to go fast.

 

[1ARUNEM]

Off the top of my heads there a 69 GTO in front of a guys house. Neighborhood is upper class but this house is in poor shape as is the car.

About a mile away there's a guy with a cuda sitting in his driveway starting to rust, won't sell.

Also know another guy with several old vette's including a 57 that's sitting in a cinder block building collecting mice.

 

[750H.P.V6]

Yes I did restore the GSX. I owned it for about 13 years and ended up selling it in 2003 on Ebay. I can probably post some pics over the weekend.

Neal

Did you restore the GSX?

 

[granitestategn]

Superbird

In the early 80's I saw a Plymouth Superbird at Empire Dragway in NY that had been badly abused. I looked like the guy had tried to drive it through a doorway about two feet to narrow. Both front corners were smashed in. It was pretty beat besides that. I was looking to pick one up but I thought $2500 was way too much for a Superbird. That was for an OK one, not the beat example I'm speaking about.

 

[TurboJunky]

Dig around this website IF YOU DARE. Get pleny of Kleenex tissues:

http://www.carsinbarns.com/

 

[salvageV6]

Probably my WE4.

I don't begrudge anyone that drives their car however.

Joe Dirt is my hero.

 

[Mike_G]

I would say My 1st encounter with a GNX. It was sitting IN the parking lot With wicker furniture tied in the trunk. Lady Driving it was well aware of what it was....Poor thing was in Sad shape... After talking with the locals In Scituate Ma, (I was stationed there @ the Time USCG) I was told the family had 2 of them . They were treated as common domestics in comparison to the Ferraris/other Euro cars they owned

 

[GN87Mike]

I know of a nice (was) low mile 87 GN that is sitting in the weeds. It was in his barn. Every 6 months or so I ask him if he wants to sell it and I get the classic "I may fix it up some day" to which I say why don't you put it in the barn then. His answer is maybe someday.
It ticks me off.

Mike