Cars that wouldnt die?

[starkersEB]

Like the title says i wanna hear bout peoples experience with cars they could not kill!!!
I have a couple, both toyotas.
First is a mates ke30 corolla the ammount of crap that thing went through would take me hours to write so heres a selected few, it was rolled onto its left side then a while later onto its right, its roof/bonnet were used as a trampaline many times, was driven for 100 odd kays on a flat tyre on yorke's dirt roads, a few "light" brushes with trees here and there and i guess lastly after a canary forced her into retierement we took her for a big burnout session with no water in rad and no oil in motor two brand new tyres lets just say she went home under her own steam (on rims lol). that car woould not die.

Second
My mates and i bought a corona for bugger all to hack round in this thing was jumped, crashed, shot at (no one in the car and out bush on a property) jumped more, driven on rims, rolled, sand and rocks put down carby etc.. She didnt die untill she was set on fire!! that was all in 1 day lol. I must stress again though this was done all on private property id never do anything like that on public roads.

You guys got any storys bout cars that you couldnt kill.

[fiery]

There has only been 2 cars I haven't totally killed.. one being my current baby (EF XR6), but the other one was a 1982 LTD with a beautiful sounding 351.... Sold her to get the first EF XR6.... not sure that was such a smart thing though...

But every Holden I have ever driven I have either killed its motor, gearbox (or trans)... and diffs, apparently I was good for killing diffs.....
oh well.. its always ok when its one of those cars though :
(no wonder none of my family let me near their cars, they all own Holdens or Toyotas) :

[5L]

two ppl i know both brought geminis to do demo derby, out in the scrub. they taped old pillows to the head lining steering wheels and the side of the door, these cars were tormented for bout 4 weeks and would not die, this included two rolls in one car, exhaust being torn off, cars sitting on hi revs in wet clay and not going anywhere fast, one got sold and died shprtly after one was rolled on its roof from a side impact from the other car one day in the wet clay and they couldnt be bothered flipping it over that day, so they locked it and went home, went back the next day and it was stripped.

[phat_stak_tipa]

we had an old honda civic wagon (real old) my mates and i paddock bashed it for months we drove with out the air filter on it it ran on three plugs sounded like a WRX we ran it with no oil in it hit big dithes in it at 90 kays in the paddocks and a mate hit a post and another mate put it in a small damn which we got it out of and finally the clutch went all the 1 to 5th gear changes in the mud killed it....it was front wheel drive but we used to do reverse helis i wish it was still around great way to learn car control in a controlled environment we even taught my g/f to drive in it

[Bluefreak]

'77 XC Falcon 500... 3.3, 3 on the tree and 265's on the back... Used to back up onto my nature strip, light the bags up and drop straight off the grass onto the bitumen... Try as I might, I couldn't total the engine, box or diff. Some f'wit decided to t-bone me and killed the old girl...

[The Monty]

My parents Toyota Landcruiser that I learnt to drive in. HJ60, 1982 moel. It has done 500,000 Ks + and is still on the same motor, just with different oil, fluids, filters, and a set of Glow plugs and a power steering pump. It has also had another diff in it. It was used as my parents "work car" while we were in the city plastering, while being used each weekend four wheel driving to get to our property which was about 650 K's away every weekend. Then we moved to the beach where it was taken up the beah every second day. Had three learners learn to drive in it. It was retired to strictly 4WD use at our property, being parked at the entrance before the track in, but is being bought by a couple to be returned to street use. I really loved that fourby.

[Casper]

1.6L Escort. We bought it for $500 for the sole purpose of killing it.
Rollbacks, donuts, burnouts, jumps, hardcore offtrack rally driving, pretty much anything you could do on a property we did to this car. Exhaust only lasted a few minutes (was ripped off after the first jump) but the car wouldnt die.

Eventually killed it with a "redline" drive for 3 minutes in 2nd gear. Wasnt the engine that went, it was the suspension and body when we accidently drove it into a 2 meter deep and wide concrete irrigation canal (dry) and tore it to pieces on impact. Ouch. Had a seatbelt bruise for weeks. I was in the passenger seat at the time and te rails snaped clean off and the seat just moved with the impact.

[Dodge]

my old charger was a original 318 fireball engine, when i got my 340 six pac i tried to kill the old 318, first i redlined it with the old brick on the gas peddle, then i punched a hole in the radiator and cooked it , made sounds like a steam train hitting a old building, but still ran. so then i just took it out and rolled it off a cliff when they built the freeway from hornsby to berowra, i bet if i found it i could pour some petrol down the carby and fire it up again.

[Rob]

My mate had a 82 Cortina 4cyl, 4sp manual, biggest POS ever been in. Had awesome speed holes in the roof and doors. Actually had a dog run into it and put a huge dint in the drivers door :

That thing was driven mercilessly for about 4 years before it died. One of the tyres was proper rooted, you could see the metal beneath the rubber. Left scrapes on the ИИИИИumen when he spun it. Old faithful (the tyre) blew up one day on the way home from uni, in the carpark no less! Clutch died, so he just shifted without it.

We went to a mates farm and did a recreation of the paris-dakar rally in it, but we hit a tree at about 30kph goin sideways, still didnt kill it. Finally the corty was sold for $50 after my mate just couldnt be stuffed fixing the clutch again.

[OLDFORDNUT]

i have just sold my 1998EL ex taxi , its been running on 5 cylinders for last 18months as a valve or two are most probably split from LPG and no oil drip for gas system, anyway,it still towed my tandem trailer at speed on hiway but was sluggy under acceration unless you changed auto manually (as bad valves equal not much vacuum for auto to work properly).
it had 30,000 on clock as it had gone over the 1,000,000 thats right,1million km's,guy who brought it last week is still wrapped in his bargain,this car still goes well and probably will for a long time yet,especially if he reco's the head.

[deankdx]

XE ute, i bought a spare motor for it 3 years ago as it has near zero oil pressure, thats with HPR50 oil, has cam lobes worn off and has no power, has had a blown headgasket for 18 months, just keep sticking a can of silverseal in when it starts using water again. gets any second hand oil thats kicking around as it uses 1 litre per 1000km of oil in a two stroke fashion,(no smoke as i run it lean on LPgas) i think the motor has outlasted the car as its now too unroadworthy to pay the rego on again, if it had any sort of performance i'd give it a good paddock bashing before selling it(hmm might do it anyway? i have never got a canary so this might be a first)

the spare motor has never been needed which proves Murphys law if you have spares you wont need them.

[Rollin]

the current one

bought it with 110,000km on the clock, its done over 70 passes down the quarter, 1 track and 2 drift days at qld raceway, two track/drift days at morgan park (lapping for 20 mins at a time with the temp needle just touching the red square on the gauge...) innumerable 'lap dashes' and 60ft drags at archerfield speedway (yeah, i have raced it on a clay oval...have a few trophys too ) plus giving it a good working over on the street.

put a tweecer in it and tuned by ear, took ages to get it going ok, so in the meantime it had to deal with excessively rich and lean mixtures under power, excessive or insufficient timing advance nearly all the time etc etc.

at 198,000km i put a turbo on, and as of tonight it has 208,530km on the clock, engine still going strong, even though its still running stock computer, stock timing, stock fuel injectors and only a 2:1 malpassi to give it a little more fuel.

it pings very badly over 3500 when on boost, but i still took it to willowbank for a laugh and did a couple of passes - shifting not very quickly at 3500 with a soft launch it still did a few 14.5s @ 97mph, even though i had to change to 5th about 80m from the line and was only pulling 3000rpm as i crossed it...

oh yeah....still on factory head gasket!!!

[SpoolMan]

From the dark-side my dad had a 1979 VB Commodore he purchased it in 1982, he retired it in 2003 same engine, auto and diff....
The old Holden Red motor never stopped, they were a good engine.

[Steffo]

My dad's old 1995 Ford Econovan Maxi.

510,000km, burnt valve (only running 3 cyls), stuffed carb, stuffed transmission, timing was well out, cooling system damage, I think the block might have suffered a little also, and a blown headgasket...

It was automatic but if you put it in drive and let it idle, it would turn off. You had to left foot brake, and keep the accelerator slightly applied when stopping somewhere, so that it didn't switch off. And it was extremley difficult to start it too...

And yet it kept going. The ONLY reason we no longer have it is that it got stolen.

[Steffo]

Oh and I haven't even mentioned the other things the van suffered... like being reversed into a tree... getting hit head on at 80km/h by a Jeep and suffering zero damage... running a big pothole at 60km/h which suddenly turned all the interior lights off....

[2kool4u]

My step-dads old landie, we've had it for about 14 years, never even checked the oil, no brakes except handbrake, only 3 cylinders go to the zorst, other on has about a foot of extractor, rusty as hell too. It's never even had trouble starting, but when you look at the engine it really stumps you as to how the thing could possible run.

But those old landrovers just never stop, I've seen 'em in much worse condition still goin strong.

[fmc351]

Dato 120Y. Took that thing onto Double Island point, getting on the beach was easy, hit the soft stuff at 90km/h hit the harder sand at about 40km/h. Getting it off, me and a mate pushed while other half gassed it. Tracks around jimna State Forrest, it never died. Std they had solid cam and lifters.

TC Cortina, 250 pre cross flow, 4 spd rail. Actually that was the most eco car on a long run. A mate and I drove to melb from Brissy, he in a 4 banger me in the TC, I used $4 more fuel than he did. That thing ran for ever, despite regular huge line lockers. I mean huge, 80+metres. (Single spinner, only stopped because the tyre was flapping in the guards.

Mazda 323 BD1052, over 400k on the clock in the end, still ran fine. Just ugly.

[el_sparko]

mates ford laser ke wagon, he's done burnouts in it, constantly over redline, thrashing it every oportunity he had... been over a year now and its only got a slight spring bounce noise. when redlined and quickly backed off accelerator it produces a BOV sound so people at times really thought it was turbo too. only a carby 1.6l engine. he has finaly given up and its sitting in his backyard.

[OzJavelin]

Valiants .. as long as you can put up with the rattles, smoke, oil consumption, they will last forever. The bodies usually rust away into the ground long before they die.

[EDManual]

1980 corolla, roared down every dirt road we could find, did burnouts, revved it so much the distributer blew apart one day! Took it down 4wd tracks with a friends Hilux like out the back of anglesea, could do anything he could! and it was much smoother, just had to hit everythig harder! Had the shock tops banging through the rubbers onto the bonnet! We finally decided to kill it, got it stuck on a mound of dirt, then rolled it off with some mates. Was bent as!

At night I drove it to a wreckers so as not to be seen, I parked it there and revved it for 5 minutes at what seems like 10,000revs! Wouldnt die! Good old thing, I'll find a picutre :-)

[LUXO_8]

hilux.... 619,000 kms, original engine, gearbox and diff.... original clutch replaced at 580,000..... you could idle at traffic lights with it in gear and the clutch out haha.

the thing is awesome cops a flogging every day... gets run out of oil so it makes nasty noises which go away when new oil's "fitted"

[OzJavelin]

Originally Posted by MADNC_8

hilux.... 619,000 kms, original engine, gearbox and diff.... original clutch replaced at 580,000..... you could idle at traffic lights with it in gear and the clutch out haha.

the thing is awesome cops a flogging every day... gets run out of oil so it makes nasty noises which go away when new oil's "fitted"

.. I think it's cheating allowing Japanese vehicles in this list .. everyone knows they are basically indestructible!!

[LUXO_8]

Originally Posted by OzJavelin

.. I think it's cheating allowing Japanese vehicles in this list .. everyone knows they are basically indestructible!!

haha sorry:

still, its a fair effort i wanna get it and slap a turbo on....see how long it likes boost....

[chief]

What about the Toyota Hilux on Top Gear. That was truly undistructable. Fire, the sea, wrecking ball list goes on...

[red_hotxr6]

Originally Posted by SpoolMan

From the dark-side my dad had a 1979 VB Commodore he purchased it in 1982, he retired it in 2003 same engine, auto and diff....
The old Holden Red motor never stopped, they were a good engine.

Dont mean to be rude or get on your bad side but it sounds like that car was garaged, serviced when it should have been driven properly and well basically looked after. From what i have read here that car doesnt come close to some of the treatment these other cars on this post have received.lol

[vino3o2]

I had a little Fiat 128 that i owed and the thing just would not die!! Flat changing, hand break'es you name it we did it and it still soldiered on, even had two guys lift the front and did a huge front wheel drive line lock through to 3rd gear reving the guts out of it.......was a great little car,

[SpoolMan]

Originally Posted by red_hotxr6

Dont mean to be rude or get on your bad side but it sounds like that car was garaged, serviced when it should have been driven properly and well basically looked after. From what i have read here that car doesnt come close to some of the treatment these other cars on this post have received.lol

Most probably the exact opposite, my dad never had a garage the paint on this car was so faded in some parts you could see I different color, my old man was tight with his money, I did the occasional oil and points plug change for him when it played up.
wouldn't mind betting he never serviced the auto or diff, when the was finished it was picked up and taken to Sims scrap matel, it was still going but the body was rat sh#t.

[XRchic]

1975 Toyota Corona 2 litre. My Dad bought it for me in 1989 as punishment for writing off the new car he had bought me only months earlier. It was totally bulletproof. It was also treated fairly harshly. It was a manual and I flogged it delivering pizzas for a while in the hills, and generally thrashing it, out in the country, off road etc.

Drove it down some grass track somewhere out near Callington and there was a big rock hidden in the grass in between the wheel tracks. Took off the entire exhaust and I drove it like that for a month or so before it got fixed. It made an absolute racket!!!

Drove it for months with it making this strange clunking noise in the engine. Finally decided to check the oil and nothing registered on the dip stick. Had driven it like that for who knows how long! It never missed a beat.

It was white, with dents in every single panel (from getting in and out of terrible hills driveways while delivering pizza and hitting trees etc), and also dents in the side panels, often from pulling green wheelie bins along side it....

It had 5 million stickers all over it, was filthy and dented, but I had it for years before I traded it in on its opposite - a Mitsubishi 1984 Sigma GSR in black - probably the least resilient car I have ever owned!!!!

Go the Corona!!!

[apolloxbgt]

Cordia gsr turbo,I bought it with a cooked motor and rebuilt it for my missus for her second car (her first was a bloody gemmy).After forking out $1400(trade) for parts and machining,I assembled it and fitted it only to find it had blow by due to having mismatched rings to the hone(good ol repco).

My missus drove it for about 18 months with a big spring holding the dipstick in so it wouldn't come out under pressure,then I gave her her third car (a 351 xe ghia)and used the cordy for a work hack.I gave it heaps for a year,and it would let a huge plume of smoke everytime you backed off after having it fairly well on boost,but it still hammered (would pull off the 220 clock)and was cheap to run.

I ended up selling it to local guy who drove it for another couple of years without incident.Great little car,dunno what happened to it after he had it.

R31 skyline (this post is getting very ricey),I replaced my 302 4 speed xbgs with an r31gx skyline 5 speed when I was 18 : ,I needed fuel injection and at the time eb's were still too dear.

Gave it heaps,burnt off 4 sets of rear tyres in 3 months (I remember doing doughnuts on the rev limiter in seconed more than once).It was a great sleeper stock white with hubcaps,a 2.5 inch exhaust and an auto ecu.

Opened a lot of peoples eyes to skylines (mainly when it left them for dead),traded it on a s3 r31 sillohouette gts after 4 months of being driven like it was stolen,and only replaced the aforementioned tyres.

[Zed7fiddy]

My navara im using at the moment, it has 450 000 kms on it, still original engine, never had a rebuild, the gearbox is the same one that came from factory, as is the diff, never had any major work done to it, its a 91 5spd beast,

when i get a new ride in about a month or so im going to keep this as a little runaround as its not worth anything