My first "beater" would have to be an 86' Bronco. I couldn't kill it. Inline 6 and 4 speed standard. I beat the crap out of it. Always. Broke an engine mount doing burnouts(in the rain). 4" ratchet strap from the alternator bracket to the frame fixed that. Drove around a bush at night time once, had a tree go through the rad, fan and buckled the hood up pretty good. Picked up a 3 core olds rad from the local junk yard and ratchet strapped it in and kept going for another year like that. Then it caught fire. So I pulled the body off and put a regular pickup cab of a 91'f250 on it and built a tiny flat deck and stuffed some 35's on it. Used it around the junkyard til I lost interest and forgot all about it. It's probably still sitting where I left it too.