I had a friend up the street, we got to driving age and his dad gave him a really clean 1967 Belvedere 2door 383 4bbl car that he bought in 1970 and was the family car for a dozen years. He treated the car OK for a few months, washing and waxing and proud of it. But then began hammering the poor car.
Remember this was early 80’s and we had been watching the Duke boys for years. One night he comes up the street and I was out there and he stopped and was laughing, he broke the torsion bar and the left front was sitting low, he couldn’t stop laughing, never would tell me what happened. The next day I went up there and we looked the car over, the rear shock crossmember was broken off and the shocks were the only thing holding it up in the car.
The next week same thing, comes home at night and I was outside, he said he broke the trannny and had to get home before he ran out of fluid! He had a trail of ATF on the road, and a puddle where he stopped. Sure thing the tail housing was broken near the mounting boss area.
Car ended up a big mess and traded off for little to nothing, only drove it for about 6-9 months, a very sad deal. The end.