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View Poll Results: Would You Buy a Wreck? If you knew the owner died in the crash
Yes - would sleep easy knowing parts of the car lived on 8 50.00%
Yes - but it would be a little unstettling knowing the history 2 12.50%
Maybe it would depend on...... 6 37.50%
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Would You Buy A Wreck?, If You Knew.....

The previous owner was fatally killed in the accident that wrote off the car.

The car would be broken for spares with no chance of being put back on the road.

Interested to know what people would do if the price of the car was right and had parts you could use.

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Old 05-14-2013, 03:32 AM
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Yes, I am pretty sure that I have already. I have bought quite a few used auto parts over the years, I am sure a few of them came from fatal accidents. An another side note, I sold a camaro that I had built in my early 20's. It was a pretty quick car. A few years later, I am in a wrecking yard, and I see it totaled with the steering column pushed into the drivers seat, and blood stains everywhere. If they survived, it would be a miracle. I felt somewhat responsible for a while.
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help Mods, the poll only shows 3 options I had filled in 5 options
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I'm not so sure I would intentionally buy parts and use them. It's not as though car parts are the same as human organs. It just seems a little creepy to me.
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I don't have a problem using used parts on a car. Most of the cars in the junkyard are there because of accidents... some fatal. I wouldn't go out of my way to purchase a car just because someone died in it though.

I think I mentioned in another thread about a buddy who bought a wrecked Harley just because the former owner died while riding the bike. He enjoyed riding the Harley around and telling others about the fate of the former owner.
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If I knew - definitely No
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The curse of the Dean 550 Spyder:

The Curse of Little Bastard: James Dean’s Porsche 550 Spyder | A Thing for Cars

"Car designer George Barris bought the wreck for $2,500. On delivery, the Porsche slipped off its trailer and broke the legs of a mechanic. A doctor from Beverly Hills, Troy McHenry, bought the engine of the Little Bastard and put it in his own Porsche. The first time he took the car out, the vehicle spun out of control and crashed into a tree. He was killed on the spot.

Another physician, William Eschrid, bought the transmission of Dean’s Porsche. He went racing – some say against McHenry – and, going in a curve, the car rolled over. He was seriously injured.

Barris sold two tires of the wreck, which were unharmed in the accident, to an unnamed New Yorker. The tires blew up simultaneously, causing the car to go off the road. It was not reported what happened with the driver.

Two young thieves were injured while they attempted to steal parts of Little Bastard. Barris decided to store the cursed car safely away, but the bad luck kept coming from the hunk of twisted metal. In 1959, a fire broke out in the Fresno garage where Dean’s Porsche had been stored."
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At age 19 I worked in an indoor Corvette dismantler. I was there for maybe 9 mos. total. I pulled apart several bloody cars. Never knew if they died or not but some of them had the frame rail bent the shape of a tree trunk and the seat was 6 inches wide.
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Well, if I had to scrape gray matter off of the parts, maybe not, but otherwise, I don't see why not.
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Well, if I had to scrape gray matter off of the parts, maybe not, but otherwise, I don't see why not.
It dries fast. So does blood.
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I think it depends on the vehicle. Would I buy some econobox with this kind of history? No. Something "classic" with the right price? Absolutely.
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I bought a crashed 911SC that had blood and guts (obviously exaggerating) splattered around the interiour. I didn't feel too good about the car so I searched for clues and found an old receite with a name on it under the seat. It was quite an unusual name so I googled it and phoned the name in the whitepages. It was the guy's mom. She said he survived the accident but didn't like to talk about it. She said he had just picked up the car from having spent thousands on recon's and upgrades and crashed it while "swerving a dog" on the way home.

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