Your best beater that you beat the snot out of but it kept treating you well?

[gtx6970]

Many years ago, I had a 71 Duster slant six ( real power house ) auto. white with green fenders and hood. Blue interior

I drove that car everywhere for several years. Not once did it ever let me down

 

[eldubb440]

my AMX was super dependable for ever...... but not a beater

 

[Budnicks]

65 Old 442 400/4bbl 4 speed 3.48:1 gears, I think all OE
other than burning a lil' oil, it ran for ever (280k)
just plugs oil gas & alignments at a buddies shop
It was gold & goldish interior (interioer was mint condition too),
Magnum 500 style wheels, they called something else/Rallye's...
I had problems keeping front tires on it
front of the frame was tweaked/bent a bit, I couldn't get/keep a good alignment,
used to buy recaps for $15 each
good enough to drive
& rears, were because it did great smokey burnouts/donuts, at will...

I had like 3-4 cars & 4x4 trucks at the time, just another car

It wasn't at that time, much value (like 1980) just another used car,
& a gas guzzler, like 8mpg (if you stayed out of it) old worn-out muscle car
& going to do a bunch of work on it or for me to throw money in it...
but;
the thing wouldn't die, it was fun to drive,
but not the best body/paint, she was a lil' rough, all Org....

I got it in trade when I sold a 70 RR 338/tf727 column shift,
the guy gave me the 65 Olds instead of $1,000 of the asking price
I was asking $2,000 for the RR,
I only paid like $500 & an TM7 intake in trade for the 70, for another car...

Now I wish I had it "still", sold it for like $1,800 in like 1985 (IIRC)
I'd do a new frame, or straighten the old one, new suspension
& cleaned it up, repaint etc.

Had a 65 Galaxie 240 straight 6, 3 on the tree 4 dr 'used on the ranch'
it died finally at like 350k, beat to hell, seized up finally got over heated
one to many times...
I got it for $150 from a HS friends mother...
Literally just gas & oil, never did anything to it, a rear shock broke took it off
it was a bouncy ride, had some killer snow tires on it for the mud in the meadows...

 

[PlymCrazy]

‘76 Buick LeSabre, 350/350.
The rear quarters were rotted so bad the car would fill with smoke with each brake stand lol. Had to roll down the windows to see if the light turned green.
I was at the used tire shop throwing a $10-$20 right rear tire on that thing more times than I can count. Paid $600 for it, beat the tar out of it and couldn’t kill it. I was 18/19yo when I owned that car.

Looked something like this but an absolute rust bucket…

 

[Cranky]

‘76 Buick LeSabre, 350/350.
The rear quarters were rotted so bad the car would fill with smoke with each brake stand lol. Had to roll down the windows to see if the light turned green.
I was at the used tire shop throwing a $10-$20 right rear tire on that thing more times than I can count. Paid $600 for it, beat the tar out of it and couldn’t kill it. I was 18/19yo when I owned that car.

Looked something like this but an absolute rust bucket…

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My 66 Mudstain had rusted wheel wells and would fill the car with smoke doing brake stands. The car was a 4 speed and I'd get it going in 1st and then power shift 2nd and well, just create more smoke!

 

[SteveSS]

Mid 60's Impalas.

 

[Cranky]

Mid 60's Impalas.

My BIL had a 65 Impalla convert and he let me take it to Galveston with my girl friend when the car was about a year old or so. He said I didn't have to stop to let the top down but figured that wasn't what he meant but slowed down to about 25....even that was kinda to fast! Nothing broke but the top went down pretty fast!

 

[1967coronet]

Beat and beat again, 383 4 spd, that RR would have run away from home if it could have

 

[jimbosride]

" Biscayne Baby" Car was shipped back to the states after being used as a taxi on a Guam military base.

$ 300 Dock fee. You could "hear" the car rusting. the dash meter was still in it. drove 2 years then traded it for socket set
because my new wife refuse to be seen in it. It would burn oil for 30 minutes after it was shut off.

 

[Cranky]

It would burn oil for 30 minutes after it was shut off.

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[Coelacanth]

I bought a rusty low-compression 1968 Monaco for a winter beater and drove that thing for 2 or 3 winters. It was fun to drive in the winter. The 318 was more than enough power to do all kinds of donuts in snowy, icy parking lots and streets, and yet with snow tires mounted, it was wide and heavy enough to get really good traction when desired, too. I wouldn't say I beat the hell out of it, but this one time, I'm driving in a residential area where I lived at the time, there's a lady driving the car ahead of me. She signals to the left and starts to wander to the left, where there's a street leading off to the left...you'd think she'd be making a left turn there, but...NOooo. I went to pass her on the right and just when I'm about even with her car, she suddenly hangs a right. Wth, I'm thinking, as she was apparently going to park in her driveway on the RIGHT. But signaling and moving over to the left?!

Anyway, her insurance had to ante up but because that beast was practically considered worthless--and the only damage was a scrape and the left driver side bumper being pulled out a tad, they agreed to pay me $400. So it was a silly lady who beat up on my beater, not me.

 

[Moms68]

1965 Chevrolet Belair wagon, 283 w/ 2 speed auto trans. bought it for 100. Drove it almost 2 years and sold it for 100. It belonged to a painter, so the interior and rear had paint all over. It was a chick magnet!!!

 

[Armyvet25]

73 Super Bettle

 

[68BabyBlue]

73 Super Bettle

Wife had one in college. Her family tree destroys anything mechanical. That one held up.

 

[Cranky]

73 Super Bettle

Had a 71 SB....biggest pile of crap I ever owned! Don't remember how long I kept it....maybe a year or a little more. Bought it used with 30k miles and don't think it made it to 40k because if it wasn't raining but looked like it might, I drove my bike.