This Car Will Kill You-craigslist

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Awesome Rat Rod That Will KILL YOU. - $1800 (Marietta)

Probably the least safe thing you could do is drive this car. Maybe that's not a really good selling point, but this car is simply awesome. It's a 1979 convertible Triumph TR7 (with disc brakes) that has been violated with a small block Chevy 350 engine. Add to that high compression double bump heads, Brute Force cams, MSD ignition components, and a slew of other things that make this one of the fastest, funnest, and least safe vehicles you could ever drive.

When you step on the gas in this thing, it SCREAMS, and the front of the car just leaps up. I cannot even begin to describe what the acceleration is like, but it is just...fast. Just really really fast. I have no idea what the horsepower output is, what the zero to sixty times are, or anything like that - but I guarantee there is NOTHING else on the road that can touch this thing. You find me a car you can do rolling burnouts at 30mph in, and maybe that can beat this thing. But probably not.

This car is a total peice of sh1t. It is a death trap, and there's a very real chance if you buy this thing and start hot rodding around town, you will be dead in a week. The motor is actually not a POS, and pretty sweet. The car is a junkyard car, but I suppose if you really wanted to sissy it up you could fix it up or something...but that would be retarded. Drive it like it is, and die in style.

So if you want to get corpsed up in a hurry, or maybe you are one of those lucky and/or safe people that won't drive it like an idiot, you should buy this. The price is slightly negotiable, but not really. Well OK, maybe. No just kidding, not really. Well, OK but just for you. Perhaps. Or not.

This is not a joke. The car is really for sale. Email me for pics and test rides. Almost everyone who has had a test ride in it stomps the "imaginary brake pedal" on the passenger floorboard, so if you have a heart condition or are old or something, go away. If you strike me as an idiot, you cannot buy the car. If you strike me as an idiot who needs to die immediately, you may purchase the car. Location: Marietta

I like his description...lol

I can attest that a TR-7 with a big engine in it can be a screamer. My 76 has a 225 ci buick v-6 in it, and it can be quite dangerous.

I WANT IT!!! Oooooo, drop in an LSx...

Can a TR-7's trany and diff handle that?

Unsafe cars are the safest cars you can drive...

cams?

I doubt it has the original TR tranny. Diff should probably be OK. Brakes would worry me. TR7 brakes were never much to begin with.

Damn, its just across town from me. Someone buy it quick so my wife doesnt become a widow.

I have a GM TH350 and a GM 8.8 rear end in mine...actually the brakes ARE pretty bad...especially since the 8.8 rear is drum braked.

The stock TR7 diff is running on borrowed time. IIRC the guts are basically 1500 Spitfire meaning ~100 HP is about the most it will handle before scattering shrapnel. With that much weight in the nose, it probably handles like a kid's wagon.

BUT!!!

It would be fun while it lasted.

I'm sure even the rat rod hacks are appalled by that one.

is'nt what rad-rods are all about? thing sounds sweet! Dont think I would buy it thoe I need a for door.

Its worth a look just to see if he is still breathing

Dad? why are you selling my inheritance?

porksboy wrote: Damn, its just across town from me. Someone buy it quick so my wife doesnt become a widow.

what we got here is a failure to communicate. buy the car for her, so you can be single again in a week....

hahahahahaha nice

seller said: If you strike me as an idiot, you cannot buy the car. If you strike me as an idiot who needs to die immediately, you may purchase the car.

great ending

I wonder if he'll sell it to me . . .moreover . . .I wonder if my sponsors will cover it . . .

my 'stiva can peel the tires like apples in third gear, so I say bring it on Death Trap!