The other day my buddy was looking trought obturaries and found himself a cutlass I asked him : Hun? He said the cars owner suicided in the cra with the exhaust pumping in throught a pipe.... So we got in this curious morbid thing were we looked for cars related to death. I found a 87 corvette used by some mob guy. The police auction was sellef it for 7000$ us, BUT there had been 1 decomposing body in the trunk for a month. Selling as is..no body of course! My question is, would you buy a car that had a suicide or dead body in it?????

somebody posted about buying a car that had a dead body in it.
They said I was near impossible to get the smell out of the interior. do a search on it. A guy posted that they change the entire interior out and the smell was still there.

He!! no I would be afraid of the persons ghost haunting me or something, and there would defantly be a smell from the decomposing body.

He!! no I would be afraid of the persons ghost haunting me or something, and there would defantly be a smell from the decomposing body.

Not on your life Bub, I was freaked out for 2 weeks after watching sixth sense,LOL Im waayy to paranoid for that type of thing

If it was a brand new vette for 7 g'z i would do it forsure.. Than I would spend a grand or 2 cleaning it out... 9 g'z for a brand new vette...

I dunno, its possible. There was a kid who got murdered in his brand new eclipse down here in Ft. Myers a while back, his car was right next to the school I go to, actually drove past it a few times while he was busy decomposing in it. When the cops finally found him the found out that it was a drug deal that had gotten all messed up and that the guy who was gonna buy from him shot the kid point blank in the jaw line, blowing his entire bottom jaw loose.... then they just unloaded the rest of the clip into him, all through the window. Then opened the car up, stole his drugs, wallet, and stereo, and for vanitys sake beat his face in with his tire iron. Now, all this happened in the car, and in the article that was in the news-paper they talked about his death and how tragic it was..... but at the end they started sounding like a freaking used car salesman... and I just sat there thinking "Who the hell would want a car with bullet holes in it, stained carpet... feces and the stentch? Not to mention the psycological impact it would have for a person KNOWINGLY driving the car that had decaying corpse in it at one time.

Personally, I wouldn't actually buy a car that had a decomposing body in it, or a person that had been killed in it. I'd save my money and get myself a car that.... when I finished fixing and customizing I would be able to feel good about.

On another note, a decomposing body may sound horrible and all, but in reality its just another animal corpse. Smells a bit worse than most dead animals, but its still just an animal corpse all the same, I still don't want to be bothered by the fact that a person died in the car though.... on top of the fact that I think that all the bad karma that was present at the time of the persons death would still linger in the damned thing (And no, I'm not some religious freak or anything, far from it... but I do belive in certain stuff and human sould is one of them).

Welp, not to write a book or anything, but.....

Adam

Offer them 5G's..............An offer they can't refuse

YOU CAN'T GET RID OF THAT SMELL.....A car dealer where my father worked tried...they thought the same thing.....whoa....look how cheap that is...we can strip the interior down the the metal and replaced everything....NO BEANS....has to scrap the car....for 7 gs....F DAT......maybe for 2Gs and then par t it out, putting the engine in MY car....LOL

I bought a '63 vette roadster last year cheap, it was just a body but it was perfect, anyways, I later found out I got it so cheap because someone died in it and they couldn't get the smell out of it. They sat it in some woods behind a farm for about 20 years and forgot about it.

Any ways I sold it at a good profit and the guy called me later that night and said a semi ran through the enclosed trailor on the way home and totaled the vette.

Probably a good thing I got rid of it

oh yeah heres something to think about, alot of us have fourth gen seats in our cars, but what about the cars that they came out of? the car i had my seats pulled out of, judging by the looks of it, the driver most definitely had to have died. the car was totally bashed to hell. just think, we all could be driving around with seats that have harbored the dead at one point in time. i dont really feel bad becuase its very simple (at least for me) to not think about those kinds of things.

ttt

I'm not 100% up to speed about my states laws, but as far as I know, if somone dies in the car, it gets crushed no questions asked. I dunno if thats only if they die in a wreck or under any circumstances.

Now about the body thing... thatsa a very good question.
I gotta admit, this is one of the most *unique* topics I've seen in a long time.

BTW we need to get Camrs89 in here... he details cars for a funeral home and the other day I told him about this thread and he said he can get dead body smell out. Unless you guys just wanna let this topic die. No pun intended

haha :lala: you know that kinda looks like a ghost!

casper?

ya what is that thing (:lala: )

looks like the state puff marshellow man

LOL. state puff. It's stay puff. I would probably buy a car that someone died in depending on how long they were sitting in it and how they died. I highly doubt they crush cars in your state automatically if someone dies in it. That just sounds ridiculous. Do they crush the houses too?

This is an odd topic.
As for crushing cars when someone dies in them I do not think so.
I know the car will be carted off to some other area to relieve the parents, family friends etc. of the reminder. But the car will just be found in some other junk yard.

Buying a car that someone died in. I would have to say I would buy one. Because I would by a wrecked car in a minute if it was cheap enough. But that does not mean they died in it. But like buddy said earlier 4th gen seats think of how many guys died in them.

How do you get the decaying smell out of a car????

Just fill the interior up to the windows with those green pine trees

I'm starting to doubt my earlier statement about the crushing thing. I've had freinds telling me its not true. I don't even remember where I heard it. I think it makes sense though, if you get in a horrible wreck and somone dies, I'd say its ok to crush it. Now, if somone just dies or is dead in the car, thats different. But if its a nasty enough wreck to kill somone the car will probably be smashed up bad enough where you wouldn't wanna spend the $$ to fix it anyway.

I would buy a wrecked car... damn straight I would, but only for parts... I have seen car wrecks that have killed people and the car had only relatively minor damage (ie: someone forgets to wear the seatbelt and goes flying through the windshield) ..if I could get a mint 3rd gen with no interior damage or drivetrain damage and it was the right price I would definitely buy it!!

As for suicide/murder in a car, nope I have pass on that one..it would weird me out, plus the smell thing...blah!! yuck!! Tragic accident with no blood residue, yup!!

Morbid thread but somewhat enjoyable..hehehe

All this reminds me of that movie where the 59? plymoth fury would kill the people.

I think I would draw the line at violent deaths... Murders in particular... suicides involving firearms... I don't think I would mind Carbon monoxide suicides or murders where people were dragged from the vehicles... I don't exactly know... I'd probably think a good while if any such opportunity arose.

But, many of us have wandered through the junkyard and in at least every row you will see a car that is there because one specatacular crash ended it's career... My freind got some nice alloy wheels off a Mustang GT (for his GT)... it was folded in half practically... I'd assume someone died in that crash...

What I'm getting at can be summed up in this question:

How badly traumatized were you when you came across your first windsheild faceplant in the junkyard?

I'd have to pass on the whole thought of buying a car that someone has died in... just way too freaky for me. I would take drivetrain, body, etc. parts but probably nothing from the interior if I knew someone died or was killed in the car.

85maro, you're thinking of the movie Christine... a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury goes on a rampage killing a bunch of people. I love that movie

Christine would be a great car if it were real...wreck it up and it fixes itself!! ehehehe ... I wonder if I could get my IROC to do that!??!! hummmmmm...

Cool movie... Stephen King is a genuis!!