The ten best ways to kill your car

By Raphael Orlove | Jalopnik – Thu, May 3, 2012 4:52 PM EDT


3.) Donate it to a learning institution

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Why it's right for your vehicle: Destroying your car is well and good, but you could also donate it to a school or college, where a class could either learn how to fix the car back up, or transform it into something much more interesting.

A professor at the University of South Carolina turned his old 1972 MGB over to his class, who converted the car to an electric vehicle. It was a great project, and a lot better than letting the car rust away in a junkyard.

Photo Credit: Autoblog Green/University of South Carolina

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