me and my mate always used to go halfers on a local bargain buy for work to keep our proper cars good. we would usually pick up something with a few months mot left for about £200 , run it into the ground for work then just scrap it when the mot ran out and usually get half our money back . it was always fun on the drive down to the scrappies as wed be bouncing it of walls and posts on the way to dump it.
once we got stopped by the police as wed used it for target practice with our roughing nail guns and there was rows of nail holes through the metal along the sides that looked like bullet holes