Surely you’ve thought about it at least once: taking a random crapcan that is barely on its last legs and seeing just how far the dog-tired beast would go before it finally bought the farm. I’m guilty of it…I’ve seen just what it takes to kill a Slant Six (a brick on the pedal and a ton of sand in the oil for nearly an hour), a Plymouth Gran Fury cop car (“accident” with a Douglas fir), and a 1970s Subaru station wagon (backed through by a 1975 Dodge Coronet doing 40 in reverse). But in the end, that was just a curious teenager playing with machines and doing nothing creative, just destructive.

The event you are watching is the Sloppy Mechanics Dyno Day Meet in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and standing in the crowd with camera at the ready was Mr. Regular from Regular Car Reviews himself. The car is a 1993 Buick Century…nothing really appealing or even memorable, but they were a solid seller for Buick and somehow lasted virtually unchanged from 1982 to 1996. That’s impressive enough, but the 1993 model here has seen a lifetime’s worth of road salt and abuse. So, in the spirit of things, time to add a little more abuse. The LG7 3.3L V6 made 160hp in 1993, but starting at an absolutely pathetic 67 wheel horsepower, it was obvious just how bad of shape this Buick was in. Time to call in the nitrous bottle and see what happens!