Beater 370z - Who's Got One?
 

There are a lot of very nice Z's on here, but I remember my broke high school and college days driving beater cars. Driving around with things broken that I just couldn't afford to fix and driving with a lot of jerry-rigged repairs. But I've never seen a true beater 370z. Got one? What's it look like and what's wrong with it?

This car is too expensive to be a beater (at least for me). That's what I have an S14 for ;)

I agree, too expensive for a beater. That's why I have a 2001 BMW 530i for a beater.

I beat on it, and it's my bitch, I'd go off-roading if I could... Lol
Dad backed into a pole... I won't fix it...

There out there. Some hoarder with money. Or unappreciative human with no sense of value.

I guess you could say mine is a beater. It's my DD and sees all weather conditions. I take it camping. I take it fishing. I drive it on roads and off... it sees a lot of abuse.

I might actually do a little paint correction on it one of these days, though.

I hoard car parts, does that count?

It's a car... My dad came to me in the morning and said "I got into an accident last night with your car. I didn't want to tell you because I didn't think you'd sleep"
My word for word reply: "I don't give a fúck. Shít happens." And I drove to work, lol.



I love/hate my car (for obvious reasons) but I don't give a FÚCK about it compared to any family member or any friend.

And if I can get my day to day stuff in a fun car, I'm going to. If I'm gonna cry about every door ding, every swirl, every paint chip... It's not worth it. I'd rather become a Mormon and deal with 5 wives.

Thank you Steve.
I take mine fishing and camping too, lol
Can't take it hunting though... Too low... I WISH rally cross (with dirt) was bigger in the US. I'd love to do that with the 370Z

Mine's my DD too and I have taken it mountain biking, camping, dirt roads etc. I just could not afford this car as a beater.

We should first establish the meaning of "beater." I view it as a car that does the **** work, when a nicer vehicle is left behind so it does not get messed up.

If the Z is your only vehicle, I don't think that qualifies as a beater.

Well, I'd take my Z camping or fishing over my wife's 335, so I guess it's a bit of a beater in that way, but definitely not in the "traditional" sense.

To me a beater would be something that I take off road into fields around here and run through bushes. If I run into a tree, or put a huge dent in it it shouldn't matter. IMO a beater is normally a car that if insurance saw it would be totalled.

I have a scratches on mine, probably from shopping carts, that I don't care about.

But yeah if I ran it into a tree I might be a little miffed. :icon17:

The Z34 has a few more years of service left before it becomes anyone's beater car...

I still see plenty of people -- and not random kids, mind you -- driving around in sad looking vehicles from the early to mid 80's...

I think it is safe to assume anyone hear that uses their Z as a "daily driver" is their beater.