Hurting Nice Cars

[Derision]

On no! I was just browsing videos and I found these!

Jumping a Monte Carlo

Monte jumping a bump in the road

Does this upset you guys as much as it does me?

 

[megaladon6]

no, it just shows how strong the cars are. try doing that with a prius!
if the cars weren't rust buckets and already beat, then yeah i'd be cringing.

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

Unfortunately, those cars were probably already dead and scheduled for the junkyard. Seeing them go to the crusher is more offensive to me than jumping them as I have jumped all of my cars and my truck (but not that high) and they still drive.

 

[Silent viewer]

that still sucks watching that, i wonder if those guys realize how much the LS header and chrome is worth! the cars do look beat though.

 

[beeterolds]

it bothers me cause people are stupid.... instead of using the proper piece of sh*t throwaway cars they have to use the good ones....shame on them

 

[Silent viewer]

thats the thing, most people wrote g bodys off as a piece of junk years ago. i benifited by this greatly though, i have never paid more the 500 bucks for any g body i have owned or parted out and between that i have had over a dozen of them and most of them i paid 100 bucks for. all of the cars that i did part out had terrible rust issues since i live in a city that uses salt on the roads like a drugy and theie drugs, lol. all of these g bodys that have been destoyed just make ours worth that much more. i dont know how long you guys have been into g body cars but i am have been into them for over a decade now and i am a ebay guy so i am always watching g body cars for sale on ebay so that i can get ideas, ppictures and look for cars in my area for sale. i have watched g bodys hit rock bottom on prices where a clean 50,000 mile car sold for under 2 grand and parts cars were damn near given away to now you can barely find a buildable g body for less the 4 grand for a nice one, and yes i do know there have been some good deals that we have all seen but for the most part they are going back up in price. i guess the point i am trying to make is just because we see the true potential of these cars people would rather buy a cavalier or sunfire or whatever and they write off 80s cars as junk. i assure you that this is changing just watching prices on ebay. did i mention that when i use to look on ebay for a regal and i filtered them to be only 78-87 that there would always be close to a hundred for sale at a time, i have not looked tis week but my guess is that there are less then 20 on there right now and it is most likely less then a dozen........

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

I have owned my Cutlass for 15 years now and part of the appeal is the ease of finding cheap parts. I had the foresight years ago to gather extras of some commonly hard to find parts when they were cheap and readily available like interior plastics. Stock, 97% of them are far from fun. They upgrade so easily though that you can take a turd and make it a gem for little cash if you are willing to do all of your own work. If you make a mistake, the junkyard usually has something that will work to replace what you break. I am adding all of the options my grandpa-spec Cutlass didn't have new. Most of them cost me very little due to a wealth of nice cars that were junked down here over the years when elderly people died and their kids didn't want to be bothered with selling their car. I got my front seats from a mint 4 door Cutlass with 33k miles on it. Paid $10 each for them, the carpet for $5 and the dash for $15. The dash has since cracked and the carpet faded due to poor storage and sunlight.

 

[Silent viewer]

on ebay right now there is:

4 regals only 3 81-87

18 78-88 montes

7 78-87 malibus

22 el caminos

11 78-88 cuttys

0 grand prixs

just showing how rare they are getting! 2 years ago there would be at least 40-60 regals and usually at least 75+ montes at one time.

 

[455OLDSMAN]

You know I keep hearing that G bodys are getting harder to find but in my area (south central MI) they are a dime a dozen and treated like such. I really dont have a problem hauling one to the junkyard when it has junk doors, hood trunk and most body parts. Theres really nothing to keep on one thats that rusted or dented. That and people here are stubborn. Theres a guy I know who has a g body 442 olds. He wants 1,000 for it. Not a bad price if it wasnt the rustiest G body Ive ever seen but I can guarantee you that guy will hold onto it until someone either foolishly gives him a grand or he gets tired of seeing it in his front yard and he takes it to the scrap yard.

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

The thing with old cars is that there is a time in which they are plentiful and not valuable. Lots of parts are available during this 3-5 year period. Then, they all but disappear. It happened to the Chevelles and other A bodies. It will happen to the G bodies I suspect in the next 2 years. Then, all that will be left in the junkyards are a few stragglers amongst a sea of useless 90's front drivers.