Guess what this was?

Guess what this was...

Painful?

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Rx-8?

In reply to CGLockRacer:

You are the winner sir!!! You have won a trip for one to your chair! Congrats!!!

I've always had an aversion to buying parts off of cars that people obviously died in. Creeps me out.

ditto. there was a state patrol panther in a local pull it yo self yard that was slammed and had the top cut open. the interior was massively bloodstained, down to soaked carpets. I could never walk by it without getting the shivers.

OTOH, my step mother was in a BAD wreck many years ago and the car was absolutely mangled. run a 1982 Chevette off an embankment at 60 into the woods, centering an oak on the drivers door and it looks almost like that RX. She survived, but barely. The Junk yard owner's wife told my father and I she wouldn't get near the car because she was so sure someone had died in it. She was most relieved when we told her that wasn't the case. Maybe by some miracle that person in the RX (or the old panther) made it out too.

The shape of the rear door window gave this one away. Fun game tho.

It was the suicide door for me. But yeah, I like this game. Post more!

No points for guessing what it is, but there were no signs of leaky humans on the seats. Both doors still opened. Pretty impressive.

It's pretty interesting seeing how modern cars are designed to crumple. Note the crease behind the door in this one, for example. The diff is designed to break off the mounting tabs, and the power plant frame that joins the engine to the diff has notches so it will bend. We see little creases from shock waves all through the structure.

My dad does bodywork for a living.. They had this camry that came in that had been hit by a bike.. They guy was going through city traffic WAY to fast... and left part or most of his arm on the dash of her car... It didn't total the car.. and they got it fixed.. but she kept having these little complaints until somehow she got setup with a new ride.. She wasn't taking that one back..

I had a NX2000 that was hit hard on the passenger side... and there was a big mess... It never bothered me... But the story was good to freak out passengers with...

Pfft! I was in a head on accident with a late model Chevrolet Cavalier while driving my 1991 Escort Pony. I was doing 50, the drunkard in the Cadaverlier pulled out head on into the fast lane with no lights on just after dusk. I saw nothing until I was just about to hit her, I never even hit the brakes. They cut the roof off the Deathscort, then realized they needed to cut the floor between the driver seat and the apillar because my bigole butt out of the car without some more space.

A broken sternum, dislocated knee and a broken nose later and I was the only one bleeding.

I'm pretty sure these days the fire depts (or other company) hoses / pressure washes out the wrecked cars before the go to the junkyard. I think its a requirement now (blood born infections & all). They cant make it like new, but I remember years ago seeing much more graphic bits inside cars in the junkyard & not so much anymore.

KJ

I wouldn't want any parts from a vehicle w/ fatality. I even passed up buying my car from the insurance co. after it was totaled by a texting while driving idiot... I figured the car already had the 'target' painted on it once... and I won't push fate. Never accept any stolen parts either. It's all bad karma.

John Brown wrote: Pfft! I was in a head on accident with a late model Chevrolet Cavalier while driving my 1991 Escort Pony. I was doing 50, the drunkard in the Cadaverlier pulled out head on into the fast lane with no lights on just after dusk. I saw nothing until I was just about to hit her, I never even hit the brakes. They cut the roof off the Deathscort, then realized they needed to cut the floor between the driver seat and the apillar because my bigole butt out of the car without some more space. A broken sternum, dislocated knee and a broken nose later and I was the only one bleeding.

Oh yeah... My wife has you beat... She did a head on against some kind of van in her Ford Tempo.. The engine block quite literally ended up in her lap.. Shattered her right leg totally.. to this day has several pins and plates holding it together.. A gortex graft on her innominate artery is to this day keeping things together there... (ya know the one that hooks the Aorta to the rest of the plumbing) Still to this day suffers from TIA's due to blood clots that are forming somewhere... and a handful of open heart operations inside the year she spent at the hospital making everything work (kinda) again...

She was 19 at the time...

^^^ I should see if I can dig up the pictures to that car... it is unreal she made it... She can't even look at the pictures...

Guess this one

ronholm wrote: ^^^ I should see if I can dig up the pictures to that car... it is unreal she made it... She can't even look at the pictures...

We really want to and REALLY don't want to see those pics!

aussiesmg wrote: Guess this one

Dodge Caravan. 1997-2005 ish.

Last 4th of July my sister was awoken to a loud prolonged crash out it front of her house at 4AM. When she got outside, she found the remains of a RX8 in her front yard. It left the roadway and flew over 100 feet before slicing thru a 1 foot diameter tree nearly 10 feet off the ground. Two dazed and bloody teen boys were laying on her lawn. In this case, they were lucky to have been thrown from the car, as there was no car left. I'll see if I can get her to email me the pics.

I dont see many contaminated wrecked cars in the junkyard, I have seen a few (all focuses for some reason) with blood soaked airbags, but nothing else like that really. I once saw a celica that was pinched off right behind the front seats though (seriously, it was like it was cut in half with a big pair of scissors.

John Brown wrote: Pfft! I was in a head on accident with a late model Chevrolet Cavalier while driving my 1991 Escort Pony. I was doing 50, the drunkard in the Cadaverlier pulled out head on into the fast lane with no lights on just after dusk. I saw nothing until I was just about to hit her, I never even hit the brakes. They cut the roof off the Deathscort, then realized they needed to cut the floor between the driver seat and the apillar because my bigole butt out of the car without some more space. A broken sternum, dislocated knee and a broken nose later and I was the only one bleeding.

They take a good hit, here's my 95. 70ish of the Taconic Parkway at 3am. The driver's door still worked so I got myself out before the ambulance came. I spent 4 weeks in the hospital with a broken right ankle, broken sternum, 8 ribs, and a fractured left wrist. That white crate in the back window was in the trunk. A small floor jack knocked down the folding seats. Who knew you need to sleep every few days..

dont have pics but when i was 18 i had a hyundai accent as my commutter fell asleep at 4 am drove off road rolled and wrapped into a tree. my dad went to clean out the car a few days later. and guy at junkyard says sorry for your loss to my dad. my dads response "no they are staying on my couch right now im not that llucky" gee thanks dad

Our local LKQ doesn't usually have too many gooshy cars, but people do poop in them on occasion. I guess the back seat of a LeBaron is a better WC than an outhouse.

Per Schroeder wrote: Our local LKQ doesn't usually have too many gooshy cars, but people do poop in them on occasion. I guess the back seat of a LeBaron is a better WC than an outhouse.

Some of those yards are REALLY big! When the urge hits you violently and you're 1/4 mile from the nearest bathroom, you make due. Don't ask me how I know.