When All Else Fails, You At Least Have The Option Of Burying Your Car
I’m sure most of us have owned a car that’s left us at our wits’ end. The kind of car that just throws up problem after problem, until you completely fall out of love with it and would happily roll it off a cliff. But did you ever think about burying a troublesome car alive?
Tyler Hoover did just that, but then I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised - we are talking about the man who thought it would be a great idea to buy a $7500 BMW 850i. The car in question is a 1983 Chrysler Lebaron (yes, the one with the talking dashboard) exhibiting terminal rust. It’s too much of a basket case to fix up or even give away, so naturally the solution was to bury it. A process which looks weirdly therapeutic.
Of course this isn’t something we can recommend trying yourself given all the fluids and other nasty bits that’d be absorbed into the ground, but the LeBaron won’t be in the ground long. Hoover intends to excavate the car in a year’s time to see if it can be made to run. Assuming it isn’t flat as a pancake…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Maybe it’ll gain gimmick value like that buried Dino
in 50 years it’ll be dug up and handled like the Ferrari 246 Dino which now has the plate that says “dug up”.
[insert evil voice]
not if i find it first
I need an 80s chrysler
I guess it’s a Le-Bury-un now :D