"So far I have put 10,000 miles on [my Toyota 4Runner] and have a bumper sticker that says "Honk if parts fall off," which, of course, when my tailpipe did they did not do."
Name withheld
"Mashing on the gas and doing burnouts didn't really help, and racking through the gears blew the transmission. I lost all gears except for Park and Reverse. So, until the next payday, I drove around in Reverse. I drove to work in Reverse, to school in Reverse, to friend's houses...you get the point."
Mike Hillringhouse
Oak Creek, WI
"So that my wife would ride inside, I have a set of free '99 Lincoln Town Car buckets. They are both right-hand seats...."
Robert Formaz
Caro, MI
"To enter the vehicle, you must crawl through the back opening (there is no back glass) and climb into the pilot seat.... If you're cold, then crank up the heater. It does not work but makes an annoying noise that distracts from the cold."
David Stults
Muldrow, OK
"The top is homemade and didn't have windows until a trip to the hardware store turned up some cheap plexiglass. The doors are made from the same stuff as the windows, with the exception of some used plastic from a dirt racecar and zip-ties."
Tim Nixon
Talladega, AL
"No top. I bolted a piece of 2x3 plywood to the rollbar with $5 U-bolts. Key ignition stopped working. Bought a $2 horn button and used the factory foglight to get it started."
Chad Ainsworth
Liberty, TX
"A few...modifications...like a 2x8 wood back bumper (gotta be legal) and a used $5 radio and some hand-me-down stereo speakers, and I was ready for the mudhole."
James Paramore
Elgin, OK
"I've got a new fender but it was free because I traded a cassette player that came out of a '99 Ford. Most of the dents in the truck I got out with a crow bar."
Rick Hull
"I had to buy a used January '03 issue of Petersen's 4-Wheel & Off-Road because I just bought my '77 CJ-5 with my last roll of quarters."
Jonthan Langford
"My front bumper is a pole cut to length and bolted to my frame and the rear is an I-beam cut and bolted to the frame."
David McDonald
Aurora, CO
"The Bronco was to rusty to street-drive so I made a sand rail."
Max Wood
Gresham, OR