Well, we’re back with another electronic stroll through the twisted steel and melted dreams of the online Copart catalog. We’ve got Buick, Ford, and Chevrolet represented this week and each one of these mangled or melted classics has a story to tell. It is fascinating to look at some of this stuff and try to figure out what happened. I think it is also a cautionary tale on several levels from the idea that you need to make sure you stuff is stored in a secure and low risk area to the idea that you need to wear your seatbelt and keep your head on straight when driving your pride and joy.

There are obviously people who get themselves into lots of trouble be driving stupid but there are far more people who are minding their business and all hell breaks loose around them. From cars that could be saved and put back into use to cars that are so far gone it would take a team of FAA inspectors to reconstruct the wrecks that balled ’em up, let’s cruise the virtual junkyard together again as we find this week’s batch of…Copart Cadavers.

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Scroll down if you dare to see what we have found in the Copart catalog this week!

Buick Wildcat – 

This one does’t look that bad a first glance but then you get down to the damage done to that massive rear quarter and it starts looking pretty ominous. We’re betting that a guy who owns a body shop could fix this one and come out ahead on the money. What do you think? Also, what’s up with the front fender? That’s just weird looking. This one seems to have a nicely warmed up engine as well. Tough break for the big Buick. We LOVE Wildcats around here.

1955 Chevrolet – 

This one is a killer because clearly the building it was in caught fire and collapsed down on top of it. That’s gotta be the worst because not only are you losing the car you are also losing a structure and all that is in it. The way that the roof is sharply caved in just makes us cringe. Not much left here to save .

1967 Corvette – 

Ugh, right? For as many of these as we see it is impossible to get over the shock and awe factor of what an early Corvette looks like with the body completely cooked off of it. We’re actually interested to know if any of the ultra-hardcore Corvette parts and/or restoration people out there actually look at this and see something that they could make money on. Just wild.

1969 Mustang – 

If there is a show stopper in this group it is this 1969 Mustang. Why? This looks like the double whammy of an insane accident and an ensuing fire that burned hotter than the surface of the sun. Both the front and back of the car are completely obliterated and you can actually see that the front moved so much it broke the transmission in half in the tunnel. We’re guessing that the huge rear impact is that kicked the fire off. This is stunning.

Nova wagon – 

This was a typical grandmother car until someone got a hold of it and blasted some flat black paint on it, bolted on wheels, and had it pinstriped. Oh, and then clearly drove it into a tree. The engine is the original inline six (ok we assume the original inline six) and the interior is old lady supreme. The original color of the car was baby blue apparently. Now? Now this thing is a perfect candidate for building a drag race car out of. Hell, you are going to clip the whole front anyway, right? Doo it!

1969 Corvette – 

The bumpers look totally savable on this one. Perhaps the small block in the front is worth it is as well? We’ve never had a car go up like this and pray that we never do but we’re wondering if many of the engine “hard parts” can be salvaged, you know, assuming that they did not melt, right? If you took this engine out and did a leak down on it to make sure that everything was still sealed, it would be good to go, right? Hey, I am trying to find a silver lining here.