Auto news on Youtube Oct 31 2018

This is the car we just bought from some guy on Craigslist for 500 bucks and

we're gonna have some fun with it.

From the beginning our plan was to buy a cheap car and make it faster by doing

some extreme weight reduction. The car we bought was a 1992 Lexus SC400 with a

4.0 liter V8 engine under the hood making 250 horsepower. Some people might say: why

would you do this to a perfectly good car? Well, this wasn't a perfectly good

car. People don't sell perfectly good cars

for five hundred dollars. This car had 191,000 miles, a blown head gasket,

two mufflers full of coolant, and some kind of problem with the steering rack that

caused the wheel to jerk out of your hands unpredictably. The reason why

luxury cars like this Lexus depreciate so much in value is that when things go

wrong, they are very expensive to fix. This car had not been well taken care of and

was at the end of its service life. Although it did run and drive, this is

not the kind of car you could depend on to get to work every day. That's why we

don't feel bad about cutting up this car - it was already on its last legs when we

got it. We started with cutting off the roof.

These blades suck! Look, they're already dull.

Next, the mufflers were removed. This is the first test after cutting them off.

Do those mufflers even do anything normally?

With the doors, fenders, hood, and trunk removed, the car was noticeably quicker.

You can actually go in his car a little bit (laughing).

Here's what it looks like in the sunlight. The dashboard and carpet have

been removed, but we kept part of the B-pillar for the seat belts.

We took the car out to the desert and had some fun power sliding in the dirt.

After that, we took our hacked up $500 Lexus with street tires off-roading.

As you might expect, we got stuck almost immediately.

Fortunately, we used the Grand Marquis to pull the car out.

Now I should mention that our 1991 Grand Marquis is not a capable off-roader

either. The rear springs have been cut, and it has that soft land yacht suspension. But it did

surprisingly well.

And then it, too, got stuck.

Perhaps the stupidest idea ever came from me. I was thinking about how much

the car reminded me of the Lunar Rover - the one the Apollo astronauts drove on

the moon. I suggested that we paint the car white and put some NASA stickers on

it, and surprisingly the other guys didn't say no. This resulted in us

painting the car with spray paint at night at the car wash. Well of course it

looked like absolute garbage and later we wished we hadn't done it.

(laughing)

Well with the mufflers cut off, we couldn't take it through the emissions

test. And after the registration expired, we put the car in the backyard...

...and then, lost the key.

It's been outside, uncovered for almost three years now. The interior

is completely ruined and nothing on the car is really salvageable at this point.