Camaro Z28 Low-ballers ‘Force’ Owner to Chop up Car
Camaro meets gruesome fate after owner loses temper and decides to hack it up.
We get it. Selling a car can be difficult. Especially if you don’t have a buyer lined up. Even then, how does anyone put a value on something truly unique? Take this Batman themed Pontiac Trans Am for example. Similarly, this Maserati Biturbo would be hard to trade in to your local Chevy dealer. And the consensus would be totally out on a bonkers resto-mod Blazer. By contrast, a classic Camaro would be easier to evaluate. But people are always out to undercut you, aren’t they?
What we’re trying to say is that it’s understandable when someone gets upset about being low-balled. What isn’t acceptable is acting out in anger as a response. Unfortunately, a man apparently named Jon Danger submitted to his worst impulses when his disgust over pricing disagreements resulted in him butchering his second generation Camaro. Over the course of a roughly 40 minute video broadcast to Facebook video and covered by The Drive, Danger obliterated a seemingly nice Camaro that probably deserved a better owner.
Camaro Culling
From the outside, the doomed second generation Camaro looked like quite a car. The Z28 sported a nice paint job, clean wheels, and decent tires. However, it also lacked an engine. The video, shot on a cellphone in portrait mode, also appears to highlight an incomplete interior. Clearly, the Camaro was some type of project car. Our guess is that Danger had sky-high aspirations about how much he could obtain for the car, and when reality refused to penetrate his thick skull, he reacted. With no apparent regard for the car he attempted to rehabilitate, Danger set about destroying his Camaro. “I don’t have my impact gun here to take it apart, so…” Danger explains before initiating the hack job.
Shortly after firing up a Sawzall, a woman briefly appears on camera before quickly moving out of frame. She is on a mission and doesn’t seem too pleased. The audio is unclear at times, but Danger can be heard asking some pointed questions. “Where ya going?” he asks. “What behavior? What’s wrong with what I’m doing?” Danger replies. Then some cheap music is edited into the video in an effort to mute the conversation. At this point, it’s Danger against the world. Some mutterings about not being able to sell it are uttered shortly after the woman leaves.
Cut, Hack, Slice, Jump
“I don’t understand how people don’t get it. Like, the car has to be gone,” says Danger. Did it though? Stunts performed for social media enable people to get attention they normally wouldn’t in their day-to-day lives. Jumping on the hood of a Camaro you’re in the process of cutting up will almost certainly attract attention. And that’s precisely what Danger did. After going through the front end, Danger sliced into the A pillar and chopped off the door. After that, the roof gets taken to the Danger Zone. Interior components get removed too, and in this case they seemed salvageable.
Danger, looking at the camera directly, is blunt. “I bet a couple of them guys that are offering me like 2 grand, 3 grand can come get it now. I’ll take a thousand bucks,” says Danger. Spite is a hell of drug. And Danger appeared to be high on his own supply. “Title should be coming in the mail any day now, Justin,” exclaims Danger a bit later. That sounds like a major red flag to us, but this hacked up Camaro will always be something of a mystery now that’s it’s been reduced to junk.
Some Good News
While the butchered Camaro died a grisly death, the rear end escaped relatively unharmed. Additionally, the gentleman known as Danger seemed willing to make a deal on all the useful parts he can sell piecemeal. Scranton, Pennsylvania may contain a bunch of supposed low-ballers within its borders, but it has at least one second generation Camaro parts enthusiast to call its own. That is, of course, unless he finds he cannot get the prices he wants for those either. In that case, we’ll probably write about that video in the near future. In any event, the video is certainly illuminating. As Alfred Pennyworth once surmised, “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”
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