YouTubers Give Rusty Honda Passport a Glorious Send-off
Despite years of neglect, this old Honda Passport takes a surprising amount of abuse before the inevitable happens.
We love cars – especially Honda cars – but, like many of you, we have an insatiable taste for carnage. Blame our misspent youth watching Jackass with Knoxville and the gang. Recently, we stumbled onto a YouTube channel that, in our opinion, should be much more popular than it is.
The channel is called “Neutral Drop,” and the name tells you pretty much everything you need to know about it. Basically, imagine a pair of guys screaming at you in heavy “Noo Yawk” accents while they terrorize the streets in $500 beaters that are bound for the crusher anyways. The two main characters are a pair of brothers who go by “Cameraman” and “Stuntman.”
Stuntman’s trademark scream punctuates the metallic death rattles of a wide variety of rusted-out junkers. He’s the Sam Kinison of sh*tboxes. Even if the Neutral Drop channel wasn’t the place where worn-out crapcans go to die, it’d be worth tuning in just for his hilarious rants.
A Monumental Beating
In this video, the rotting (but still running) carcass of a Honda Passport is put through its paces for the last time. Stuntman slams the ailing transmission from drive to reverse, over and over, redlining and screaming as the Passport dies a horrible death. Hey, if you can’t stand to see any Honda abused like this, just remember that it’s only a rebadged Isuzu.
It’s not too long before part of the rotted frame falls off. This doesn’t deter our heroes from their mission of total vehicular carnage. For the Neutral Drop crew, a chunk of the frame falling off is just another day at the office. It’s not too much longer before things get worse.
Gradually, we hear the Passport begin to make some truly horrible noises. At the same time, we can clearly see the entire rear axle shifting. When the whole mess finally goes bang, it’s a sight to behold. The rusted frame cracked under the stress, and it took a U-joint with it as the axle shifted violently. It was a warrior’s death, a fitting end to decades of loyal service. Rest in pieces, Passport.
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