Buying RARE Sports Cars At Salvage Auction! | HOW Is It TOTALED!?

Today we hit our local Insurance Auto Auctions Salvage Auction and found some RARE cars! A BARELY damage Lotus Elise, a (previously) super clean modded Nissan Skyline, some REALLY wrecked Mustangs GT's, Corvettes and much much more!
Which ones should we buy to part out? See any we should rebuild!?
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[@topherthehidden]

For the Elise they come with a cobra immobilizer. There is a button you need to press before the car will even turn on the key fob. I removed it from mine because if your fob dies you are stranded :P It does look like the radiator is missing which is sus. But there is not much going on in the front. Radiator, oil coolers and some piping. All easy work if you know how to work on toyotas.

[@wisedevolver2741]

Lee, you should absolutely get the R32. I'm no Nissan fanboy, but those are very cool, and I would love to watch a video series of you repairing one. Plus the guys from the shop trying to get used to driving a car with right hand drive!

[@LeeC]

I've actually owned an r32 GTR before! It was a rust bucket though. I'd like to build one, but it'll have to be a GTR!

[@paulvansteenberghe4644]

I’ve got an Elise (in good weather) as my daily driver, but I’m only 5’9” and 145 lb. Easy to get in and out, once you come up with a method and stick with it. Love it.

[@elliot-oneboolane]

Lol 😆 this is so fun, I feel like I'm there laughing along for the ride 😆 Great post!

[@LeeC]

I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

[@stewkeene]

I really love the hell out of this channel. Every episode is a new adventure 👍🏻 Great fun and personalities.

[@scraplifegarage]

Awesome! Glad you enjoy it!

[@iandelmore8376]

Why do you like copart auction just cars. I dont get it. Just go to copart and walk around..

[@jackb1000]

Man, I really REALLY love your walk-arounds.

[@neu318]

Same here. I'm so glad I stumbled across his videos.

[@AMGEEEE]

The mustang had me dying😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tadaho2128]

ecoboost boys are something else 💀

[@LeeC]

Couldn't believe it!

[@andyglastonbury6032]

The Elise is a track day monster. Small engine, but so much quicker than bigger engine cars. It would easily beat many V8’s in the twisties.

[@LeeC]

I don't doubt that one bit!

[@mitchelldavidson9911]

I love your videos man especially the ones that you walk through copart love your commentary please keep them coming

[@LeeC]

Happy to hear it! We're filming one tomorrow while in MI so there will be another soon!

[@mitchelldavidson9911]

@@LeeC and it's really Kool that your only a few hundred miles away from me. Indiana Pennsylvania is where I live

[@CornflakesGarage]

Always love the Auction Videos!

[@robparker6625]

May be a blown head gasket as well as front damage. I’m 6’2” and used to drive one daily, don’t think you had the seat all the way back 👍 Getting out takes a bit of practice, you’d get used to it, you should def get one!

[@On_the_Drive]

My Elise was nearly a write-off with a little damage to the front too - Expensive damaging those clams, but would be a great project. I’m 6’2 so no excuses 😂

[@LeeC]

You saw me trying to get out of it man, I practically need airlifted out.

[@wrendooley]

12:22 buddy was movin

[@Fpvpilot928]

I'm pretty sure you can write off an Elise by looking at it wrong, lol.

[@LeeC]

LOL

[@JaredS23]

Idk if you noticed by the other corsa muffler was in cabin

[@AlbertoDellaRegina]

Look for a Lotus Evora. It will be easier to get into

[@LeeC]

on it!

[@paul9874]

I was surprised it was so tight. I expect you needed some help getting pulled out. I am 6' 2' and don't think I would have tried it. Great video today.

[@timtroke]

Love the 911, might make a great build for the channel

[@LeeC]

Let me finish the turbo first LOL

[@cmg6866]

WE BACK BABYYYY!!!! I WAS WAITING FOR A NEW VIDEO 🖕 the other channels

[@TurboPumperX]

Often wonder about salvage engines and how they hold up in a major wreck. A lot of these look like the hits were(taken/given) high rpm, high lateral g's on fast moving parts that most likely stopped suddenly or were oil starved.(crankshaft,cams.rods,etc.)???

[@tazanteflight8670]

One lotus forum owner ran over a strange large block of wood that was on the road. As the wood block tumbled, and rolled under the car it left numerous large dents on the undercarriage, which is an aluminum tub. The tub is the chassis. Any damage to the tub, and the car is considered totaled.

[@jeremysmith3522]

That green Porsche is so NICE! I would love to have it.

[@mirrorman2499]

You should try to get a sponsorship from fantix I think it’s called they have awesome compact jumper packs that are multipurpose as well especially since you do a lot of walk around at these lots and very informative to say the least. I used to be very partial to your videos because I liked to see these cars get a second chance at life before becoming scrap, but I stay because of the informative side of things that you show on your channel.

[@louv918]

Plenty noted.....the front clam shell hood is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Wife and I decided to give our daughter the middle name "Elise" since we both love the car.

[@HP.Customs]

I’ve parted out 3 late model mustangs now that we’re just absolutely smashed, now I do this by myself in my 30x40 garage and I’ve made pretty good money.

[@LeeC]

Doing it small scale is when the money is the best, trust me!

[@DaddyMack001]

I may be a bit late to the party BUT, the other Corsa exhaust was actually in the Mustang, 5:17 . Cheers 🤘🤘

[@mitchelldavidson9911]

You make my lunch time at work so perfect thank you

[@LeeC]

Thrilled to hear that!

[@tvrduude]

You WILL fit the Elise, May be a dead battery and that car looks track ready if no electrical problems... which seeing that big speaker in the floor makes me think someone may have spliced somewhere they shouldn't have.. GET IT When I was thinking about one, I had someone let me try theirs to sit in.... (I'm 6'.0 but a tall torso same as 6'2")... next weekend I owned one. PS- top off greatly improves access. 😃

[@LeeC]

Maybe I coult leave the top off and just hop in over the door.. it can't be any worse...

[@jeremyvandussen8596]

Love the odd ball purchasing like the suprise neon srt4...

[@chief8825]

man I would be grabbing the 5.0 with the headers and the procharger out of those wrecked mustangs and build something badass

[@Mercmad]

Down here in Australia, a big seller is 5.0 badges for Mustangs ....4 banger Mustangs... ha ha ha ha

[@jack_0U812]

I owned an elise and suspect that Paul below might have sold it to me as 6' 2" sounds right (Hi Paul). Once in the car, even super tall people fit and a 3 hour ride is great (done it many times). As others mentioned, the entire front of the car is one piece and called the front clam. Lotus says that ANY damage like shown requires a full clam replacement. Clams from Lotus are expensive and even 10 years ago, took 6-12 months to get. With the car out of production for 10 years now, I would bet that it's 2 or 3 years. They also don't allow aftermarket from a safety standpoint, so yes, that is a total right there. I would have tried to start the car although the Toyota 2ZZ engine is plentiful and cheap enough to do a stock replacement. You also got it right to do a Honda K series swap and if you want a Z06 killer (the car weighs less than 2000 pounds), a turbo K20 will do it. Don't write off all of Lotus with this one. The Evora is way bigger. It's also 50% heavier. I won't say it's Corvette or Porsche easy to get in, but is certainly easier than an Elise. Oh, if you want to see how difficult it is for anyone to get in/out of an Elise, watch the old Top Gear episode where Jeremy does it. I'm 5' 9" and could get in and out. Note how I didn't say "easily".

[@LeeC]

That'd be pretty hilarious, small world! If I could actually drive one, I'd have to k swap it...

[@loneric550]

RIP S2000 😭 That RED wanna be Shelby Mustang 😂😂😂😂😂

[@LeeC]

RIP might be an understatement!

[@surferdudehb352]

Im getting itchy to buy something fast. Gen 1 Viper or low mileage gen 2 CTS-V?

[@ben6119]

Red mustang had every "accessory" Autozone and JC Whitney sells stuck on it LOL

[@kc0lif]

insurance companies don't wanna pay they just total it. i like 911's re install glass it'll buff out.

[@frankiecolon7497]

That mustang just needs a buff and some gas and it’ll run just fine 😂😂😂

[@LeeC]

Hey, if you say so!

[@c5doob]

that lotus 🤤

[@c5doob]

those big goofy tesla screens are garbo probably $500ish new. someone should be paid to take that “shelby” lol

[@patrikdempsey5075]

I know a guy who was big into lotus, he had an elise that he loved letting people try to get into. He offered me a chance, I declined, didn't want to bust a 2000 dollar glove box or whatever my knees would been shoved into.

[@LeeC]

It was awful

[@jouleskelvin]

Impala had a C8 steering wheel before the C8 had a squared off steering wheel... 😎

[@Kyur4deIch]

RX8 R3. I miss mine :(

[@solis4920]

One little crack on them they get totaled also the battery die on them so fast if they don’t start it often or keep it on a battery tender.

[@carternagel1933]

How bout that Escalade Silverado at the end there?

[@toddaulner5393]

For heart shaped wheels those are not bad. LOL!

[@andrewbeetz2196]

Are the Elise aluminum frame cars? I always thought they were due to the lotus mantra on weight. Always was told aluminum frame cars total out in even parking lot bumps a lot of times due to frame damage and the cost of repairing it.

[@tvrduude]

Yes, Aluminum frame, but virtually nothing to protect "the car", so the exterior more or less sacrifices itself to protect the frame. The clam bodywork is so expensive to fix to factory spec, they get totaled. There are a fair amount of Totaled Elises out there with ZERO frame damage. Usually has to be an obvious hit before you get frame damage... chunks and pieces of fiberglass with the car.

[@armandopatane5343]

Lotus alise is beautiful 😊

[@specialk.716]

What year was the R32??

[@surferdudehb352]

Sweet Fairlane

[@elliot-oneboolane]

Oh yeah, BUY THE LOTUS!!

[@Psycho_912]

Imperial pretty rare

[@cs1375]

Notice the push button hear select on that Imperial. I also know what kind of person owned that tacky Mustang Ecoboost.

[@cornball303]

Aaron from fast and loud's white falcon you mentioned is the reason I wanna do a falcon build sometime! Very slick car

[@LeeC]

Yeah, Falcon that's what I meant 😅

[@cornball303]

@@LeeC I got you brother lol! Been watching the subscriber numbers grow fast the last 6 months, good on you guys for always pumpin put quality content.

[@enyionyeobia5103]

You need to try to get the green GT4. It would be a nice build for your channel. Then flip it afterwards.

[@LeeC]

It's just a cayman S 😉

[@surferdudehb352]

Nice Imperial

[@metarugia3981]

I thought the white mustang was pretty badly beat up, then the S2000 comes on screen, and I'm like WTF?😲 That think looks like it was run over by a friggin' train man, and if the driver(he/she) survived that should go and buy themselves a lottery ticket ASAP!

[@kellycoffey4084]

Is there any dodge stealth rt

[@kellycoffey4084]

Did you want to sell the other scat pack motor

[@wlanceg]

I think the car from Fast & Loud was actually a Ford Falcon. I could be wrong.

[@neu318]

It is a Falcon

[@scraplifegarage]

There’s that old car knowledge coming in handy! Fairlane, falcon, close enough I suppose 🤣

[@wlanceg]

@@scraplifegarage 😂😂

[@neu318]

@@scraplifegarage yes sir! You were in the ballpark. Lol

[@john91z]

It says on the car that it is a Galaxie.

[@geronimo5180]

R.I.P to the people driving those things , alot of serious damage

[@bbop3125]

The c4 is just a c2 with 4 wheel drive. S is wider and on turbo chassis

[@scraplifegarage]

Ahhhh,thank you for clearing that up!

[@chrisschrank3079]

how about them super trucks like the ram srt10

[@toddaulner5393]

Crazy how alot of modern cars that are as heavy as that Imperial.

[@60lark63]

Foreword to 27:03!

[@dixietradingco.1522]

These cars can have irreversible chassis damage. The chassis is built using a unique extruded bonded aluminum method. If it’s tweaked it’s unrepairable making it worth nothing more than a parts car. Some people search for these with tub damage so they can buy them cheap, hide the damage, distract buyers with other minor fiberglass damage, and flip them at salvage auctions to unsuspecting buyers thinking they can fix and flip it but Lotus enthusiasts know what they’re looking at.

[@aloy1920]

Nice 👌

[@paulnorman3135]

the front bumper on the lotus is about £10,000 pounds 💷 😳

[@markmiller3053]

Lol that’s definitely not the hood prop. Definitely a flood car in my opinion

[@leifandersen2756]

You are too positive with the really smashed cars !

[@MrBlown02gt]

"Im gonna back away from the broken glass slowly. Then knock on the metal right next to it."

[@scraplifegarage]

🫣

[@einsteindrieu]

How many people died in these cars ?

[@TheLEMRR]

"Elige" cars get totaled so quickly when there is front or rear clam damage. Silly, but - Clams are expensive if you can get your hands on one in pristine condition, used. Laboris intensive, but not the end of the world. I hate that so many US Eliges on the road have branded titles because of this.

[@skraminc]

holy cow, that s2000 was a MESS. i don't know if you could purposefully devise a plan to smash a car up that bad just by driving it and wrecking it on purpose. jesus. edit: i made this comment before the second one showed up. wtf are S2000 people doing? brilliantly destructive car crashers

[@mike_0213]

WOW A white STI is my dream car.... :(

[@surferdudehb352]

That misbadged Mustang :/

[@JerryHenderson72]

I'm not entirely sure about the K swap , Honda's are pretty good but I don't think they have the reliability of Toyota .

[@toddaulner5393]

I bet the Lotus is salvaged because the engine blew up, the bumper probably was like that when they blew it up.

[@philipdavison3862]

Imperials are completly hand built,they were the rolls royce of america

[@jeremiahglass8262]

After seeing the S2000s…. I’m pretty sure I don’t want to be “caught dead” in one of those..

[@Tireme683]

The rx8 is a r3 iirc

[@worldhello1234]

@20:10 They aren't really that rare unless your domestic market is cut off from imports for a long time by a policy and the remainder of them is riced or destroyed by juveniles. 🤷‍♂ In Europe they start from 17 grand in drivable condition, which is not cheap but not overly expensive either.

[@pvdl9847]

le soucis avec lotus c'est que c'est toujours en panne .

[@surferdudehb352]

Did someone say Viper green? :)

[@LeeC]

Of course you would catch that!

[@iandelmore8376]

How is looking at junk cars at copart a video on here. I dont get it.

[@tomhallberg1285]

Lotus sold for $18,575 plus fees.

[@thePGshore]

Pretty sure the front clip is almost $35K or something and virtuallu unavailable

[@LeeC]

Yikes..

[@jimhatfield5381]

RARE SPORTS CAR salvage - Good start with having more Sports cars but I lost my interest quickly because there weren't. - I did the “Elvan Wood” speed reading on the rest of this video. - Maybe after seeing 4-5 salvage videos in a row was too much for a me - That I am never going to buy anything off one of these lots. - Not enough time in my life to do that and have time left over for anything else in my life. I don’t think I have seen a Lotus on any of your past salvage trips but I have seen your play list and you have WAY more salvage videos than my mind can handle. In a previous salvage video you said something like," what should I do next on the show(s). " -BUY this Lotus and make it work!!! -NO ...because you can’t get out easily, infact it looked like you weren't going to get out!. -Kind of like when you were constipated for 3 days and then something starts to move out...but not far enough. I know this is gross but it sure makes the point. “A garage without a Porsche is just a black hole” - Walter Rohrl - Porsche Development

[@edwardquiroz3193]

Where are you at today?

[@Incaensio]

That poor S2000

[@justaddafan]

Where is this Elise? I'll buy it.

[@Raeclaw]

5:15 that mustang driver is most likely dead, holy fuck

[@MikeAarset]

Buying a Elise is like a women buying a wedding dress that is two sizes to small. You just change your metabolism so you can fit in it :). If I gained 40 pounds I wouldn't be able to fit in my Sprite.

[@LeeC]

I like to eat, I guess I'm sticking to vettes!

[@bensouth1667]

I’m 6’2” and have an S1 (with the higher sills) - trick is to take the roof off, no one can get in with the roof on, still hope for you 😉

[@steverush8362]

Thanks porsches

[@mikecallahan9993]

gas monkey car was a falcon

[@scraplifedalt]

Those s2000 are some of the worst I have seen!

[@LeeC]

Almost as bad as a running Nissan Ju.. Nevermind

[@kellycoffey4084]

I am looking for dodge motor my truck

[@surferdudehb352]

Some bad wrecks

[@markwarren7959]

Stay away from rotary. Engine eats itself over time.

[@scraplifegarage]

I need a new boat anchor, rotary’s are great for it

[@surferdudehb352]

Civic BBQ :/

[@lifebehindtheselens]

You didn't buy shit there for your title is clickbait therefore I hit do not recommend this channel ever again thanks for trying