# About them stray engines
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [October 17, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549 "2013-10-17T16:17:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@HS1342](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HS1342)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/1 "2013-10-17T16:17:12Z")
There is something that has been bugging me for some time now…
So, could someone explain to me why there’s so many engines lying around the roads?
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### Author:  [@Miloch](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Miloch)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/2 "2013-10-17T18:46:50Z")
Originally I think this was one of the few ways to find engines and what not. Now with the crapped out vehicles and what not you can find them more often. So I’d consider it a legacy thing.
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/3 "2013-10-17T19:24:44Z")
Yeah, I’d probably cut out a fair amount of those “random vehicle parts” on the roads; even in the cataclysm I think it’s fairly unlikely that somebody ripped out a perfectly good seat from their car and dropped it by the roadside.
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### Author:  [@Miloch](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Miloch)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/4 "2013-10-18T03:52:20Z")
I can see a piece falling off a nearby wreck… but other than that…
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### Author:  [@Gunmagic](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Gunmagic)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2013, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/5 "2013-10-18T07:04:35Z")
If I’m ever in a zombie apocalypse i have decided that i will cut vehicle parts out of any vehicles i find and leave them scattered around in the hopes that someone else who plays cataclysm survives and gets the reference.
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### Author:  [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/6 "2013-10-18T19:31:40Z")
> [@Gunmagic](#):
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> If I’m ever in a zombie apocalypse i have decided that i will cut vehicle parts out of any vehicles i find and leave them scattered around in the hopes that someone else who plays cataclysm survives and gets the reference.
Someone sig that. Sig that right now.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/7 "2013-10-19T03:55:30Z")
> [@FunsizeNinja123](#):
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> [quote=“Gunmagic, post:5, topic:3549”]If I’m ever in a zombie apocalypse i have decided that i will cut vehicle parts out of any vehicles i find and leave them scattered around in the hopes that someone else who plays cataclysm survives and gets the reference.
Someone sig that. Sig that right now.[/quote]
Ok, I will put stick-made curtains on my windows and have a weird solar welding cart I push to wrecks to cut parts off.
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### Author:  [@tikilla](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/tikilla)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2013, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/8 "2013-10-19T09:32:20Z")
In a post apocalypse world car pieces will grow out of the roads, just like apples and strawberries growing in forest. It’s the circle of life man.
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### Author:  [@AerialK7](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/AerialK7)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2013, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/9 "2013-10-19T09:46:31Z")
> [@tikilla](#):
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> It’s the circle of life man.
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### Author:  [@Krutches](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Krutches)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/10 "2013-10-20T15:44:39Z")
> [@AerialK7](#):
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> [quote=“tikilla, post:8, topic:3549”]It’s the circle of life man.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/11 "2013-10-20T15:51:15Z")
Maybe it’s just a trap set up by NPCs but they all suddenly gone for the toilet?
Why there is no little electrical motors, anyway? I want to take my shopping cart, add a motor to it, controls and little saddle on top of the box(and yes, it is possible and okay IRL) and drive around with niggablaster on my shoulder playing “State of Massachussets”
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### Author:  [@PogoMarimo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PogoMarimo)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/12 "2013-10-20T23:47:12Z")
> [@Krutches](#):
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> [quote=“AerialK7, post:9, topic:3549”][quote=“tikilla, post:8, topic:3549”]It’s the circle of life man.
This guy.
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### Author:  [@Krutches](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Krutches)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/about-them-stray-engines/3549/13 "2013-10-21T02:56:44Z")
> [@PogoMarimo](#):
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> [quote=“Krutches, post:10, topic:3549”][quote=“AerialK7, post:9, topic:3549”][quote=“tikilla, post:8, topic:3549”]It’s the circle of life man.
This guy.[/quote]
Vroom vroom.