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* When the titular group from ''Series/TheATeam'' works on a vehicle, they're usually [[WeaponizedCar weaponizing it]]. But in the episode "Knights of the Road", they end up fixing up an old tow truck which hadn't run in years. They end up using it to go after the VillainOfTheWeek [[spoiler:and when they've sufficiently angered him enough to attack them, ''then'' they weaponize it.]]
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* When the titular group from ''Series/TheATeam'' [[ATeamMontage works on a vehicle, vehicle]], they're usually [[WeaponizedCar weaponizing it]]. But in the episode "Knights of the Road", they end up fixing up an old tow truck which hadn't run in years. They end up using it to go after the VillainOfTheWeek [[spoiler:and when they've sufficiently angered him enough to attack them, ''then'' they weaponize it.]]
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* In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife ''The Doctor's Wife'']] the Doctor builds a working Tardis console from the wreckage of various Tardises, with the help of the soul of his own Tardis that has been transferred to the body of Idris
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': as the First Order attacks the market on Jakku, forcing Rey, Finn, and BB-8 to escape, Rey leads the other two to a ship. Finn points out another, closer ship as they're running, which isn't completely wrecked but Rey dismisses it as garbage. When the ship they're running to is blown up, though, she changes her mind and says "The garbage will do!" and they run to the previously-unseen ''Millennium Falcon'', which is in even worse shape than usual.
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* The ''Enterprise'' crew in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' find the wreck of the ''U.S.S. Franklin'', lost nearly a century earlier, on the surface of the planet Altamid. Lacking a ship, they fix it up enough to get back to Starbase Yorktown to prevent [[BigBad Krall's]] plan to decimate the station.[[/folder]]
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* ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': as the First Order attacks the market on Jakku, forcing Rey, Finn, and BB-8 to escape, Rey leads the other two to a ship. Finn points out another, closer ship as they're running, which isn't completely wrecked but Rey dismisses it as garbage. When the ship they're running to is blown up, though, she changes her mind and says "The garbage will do!" and they run to the previously-unseen ''Millennium Falcon'', which is in even worse shape than usual.
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* ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': as the First Order attacks the market on Jakku, forcing Rey, Finn, and BB-8 to escape, Rey leads the other two to a ship. Finn points out another, closer ship as they're running, which isn't completely wrecked but Rey dismisses it as garbage. When the ship they're running to is blown up, though, she changes her mind and says "The garbage will do!" and they run to the previously-unseen ''Millennium Falcon'', which is in even worse shape than usual.
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* In ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'', Leona Ozaki is so eager to prove her worth to the police force that she goes so far as to accidentally wreck Brenten's AceCustom tank, the "Tiger Special". While somehow avoiding being fired on the spot because Brenten was more preoccupied with an actual police emergency at the time, Leona and Specs set out to build her own custom tank out of the spare parts and created Bonaparte literally overnight.[[/folder]]
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* In ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'', Leona Ozaki is so eager to prove her worth to the police force that she goes so far as to accidentally wreck Brenten's AceCustom tank, the "Tiger Special". While somehow avoiding being fired on the spot because Brenten was more preoccupied with an actual police emergency at the time, Leona and Specs set out to build her own custom tank out of the spare parts and created Bonaparte literally overnight.overnight.
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* This was also the whole premise of ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''.[[/folder]]
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* ''Literature/{{Christine}}'': Arnie Cunningham buys the titular derelict 1958 Plymouth Fury from Roland [=LeBay=], who then dies. Roland's brother George is aware that the [[SentientVehicle car is sentient]] and rightly thinks Arnie should try to dispose of the car quickly. George's pleas go unnoticed as Arnie slowly becomes a jerk towards others thanks to his obsession with Christine, and by the end of the book, he's become a full-on maniac.
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* ''Literature/{{Christine}}'': Arnie Cunningham buys the titular derelict 1958 Plymouth Fury from Roland [=LeBay=], who then dies. Roland's brother George is aware that the [[SentientVehicle car is sentient]] and rightly thinks Arnie should try to dispose of the car quickly. George's pleas go unnoticed as Arnie refurbishes Christine (or possibly not; she may be refurbishing herself) into a shiny 1950s dream machine. Meanwhile, Arnie slowly becomes a jerk towards others thanks to his obsession with Christine, and by the end of the book, he's become a full-on maniac.
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* ''Literature/{{Christine}}'': Arnie Cunningham buys the titular derelict 1958 Plymouth Fury from George [=LeBay=], who is aware that the [[SentientVehicle car is sentient]] and rightly thinks Arnie should try to dispose of the car quickly. [=LeBay=]'s pleas go unnoticed as Arnie slowly becomes a jerk towards others thanks to his obsession with Christine, and by the end of the book, he's become a full-on maniac.
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* ''Literature/{{Christine}}'': Arnie Cunningham buys the titular derelict 1958 Plymouth Fury from George Roland [=LeBay=], who then dies. Roland's brother George is aware that the [[SentientVehicle car is sentient]] and rightly thinks Arnie should try to dispose of the car quickly. [=LeBay=]'s George's pleas go unnoticed as Arnie slowly becomes a jerk towards others thanks to his obsession with Christine, and by the end of the book, he's become a full-on maniac.
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* In ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'', Leona Ozaki is so eager to prove her worth to the police force that she goes so far as to accidentally wreck Brenten's AceCustom tank, the "Tiger Special". While somehow avoiding being fired on the spot because Brenten was more preoccupied with an actual police emergency at the time, Leona and Specs set out to build her own custom tank out of the spare parts and created Bonaparte literally overnight.[[/folder]]
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* It's not clear if the WesternAnimation/SwatKats built the [[CoolPlane Turbokat]] out of junk entirely or not, but it's been destroyed a couple of times and damaged at others, forcing major repairs to be made in the latter cases. In another case, they turned their civilian tow-truck into a ''monster truck'' to go up against a water-stealing alien.
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* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', one of the first things you have to do in the Cascade Kingdom is gather enough Power Moons to resurrect the ''Odyssey'' so you have a ship you can use to chase Bowser.
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* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': All of Oarai's tanks have been left abandoned for twenty years after the school closed its last tankery program. None of them were properly mothballed, and only one was actually left in the hanger- the rest were outside and one was even submerged in a pond. Despite this, all of them were brought up to working order within days of being found.
* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': All of Oarai's tanks have been left abandoned for twenty years after the school closed its last tankery program. None of them were properly mothballed, and only one was actually left in the hanger- the rest were outside and one was even submerged in a pond. Despite this, all of them were brought up to working order within days of being found.
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* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': All of Oarai's tanks have been left abandoned for twenty years after the school closed its last tankery program. None of them were properly mothballed, and only one was actually left in the
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* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode [[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel "Ariel"]]: As part of [[TheCaper a heist]] the crew resurrect a [[FlyingCar flying ambulance]] (that they literally got from a junkyard), repairing, rebuilding, and repainting it to transform it back into a functional and clean-looking emergency vehicle.
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* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode [[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel "Ariel"]]: "[[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel Ariel]]": As part of [[TheCaper a heist]] the crew resurrect a [[FlyingCar flying ambulance]] (that they literally got from a junkyard), repairing, rebuilding, and repainting it to transform it back into a functional and clean-looking emergency vehicle.
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* Happens in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine "The Doomsday Machine"]]. While investigating the wreck of the ''U.S.S. Constellation'', Kirk, Scotty and a damage control team get stuck there when the titular weapon attacks the ''Enterprise''. Kirk and company work to get the derelict ship running to at least provide a distraction.
-->'''Scotty:''' I can't repair warp drive without a Spacedock.
-->'''Kirk:''' Then get me impulse power! Half-speed, quarter-speed, anything. If we can get this hulk moving, maybe we can do something.
-->'''Scotty:''' I can't repair warp drive without a Spacedock.
-->'''Kirk:''' Then get me impulse power! Half-speed, quarter-speed, anything. If we can get this hulk moving, maybe we can do something.
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* Happens in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine "The "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine"]].Machine]]". While investigating the wreck of the ''U.S.S. Constellation'', Kirk, Scotty and a damage control team get stuck there when the titular weapon attacks the ''Enterprise''. Kirk and company work to get the derelict ship running to at least provide a distraction.
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'''Kirk:''' Then get me impulse power! Half-speed, quarter-speed, anything. If we can get this hulk moving, maybe we can do something.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': In the GaidenGame ''{{TabletopGame/Gorkamorka}}'', the background plot for the game is the Orks trying to rebuild the spaceship they crash-landed on the planet ''again'', because a civil war broke out over which of their identical-to-a-non-Ork gods it was meant to represent, nearly destroying the ship. The Meks working on the titular Gorkamorka manage to keep the Orks occupied by having them compete to bring in the most scrap metal to rebuild the ship and get more tags (having a tag will allow an Ork passage on the ship once it's built, so naturally, the Orks think the more tags you have the more chance you'll have to leave the planet).
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': In the GaidenGame ''{{TabletopGame/Gorkamorka}}'', ''TabletopGame/{{Gorkamorka}}'', the background plot for the game is the Orks trying to rebuild the spaceship they crash-landed on the planet ''again'', because a civil war broke out over which of their identical-to-a-non-Ork gods it was meant to represent, nearly destroying the ship. The Meks working on the titular Gorkamorka manage to keep the Orks occupied by having them compete to bring in the most scrap metal to rebuild the ship and get more tags (having a tag will allow an Ork passage on the ship once it's built, so naturally, the Orks think the more tags you have the more chance you'll have to leave the planet).
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-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Oh, you poor poor fing. Look wot we'z gone an' done to ya. Kap'n! Kapn'! Can we'z keep 'er?
-->'''Kaptin Bludflagg:''' Okay, Nailbrain, but it's yer charge. Keep it fueled and armed and take it out fer rukks.
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Hooray! I'll take good care of it, you'z see!
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Come 'ere an' let ol' Uncle Nailbrain fix ya up.
-->'''Kaptin Bludflagg:''' Okay, Nailbrain, but it's yer charge. Keep it fueled and armed and take it out fer rukks.
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Hooray! I'll take good care of it, you'z see!
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Come 'ere an' let ol' Uncle Nailbrain fix ya up.
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-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Oh, you poor poor fing. Look wot we'z gone an' done to ya. Kap'n! Kapn'! Can we'z keep 'er?
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'''Kaptin Bludflagg:''' Okay, Nailbrain, but it's yer charge. Keep it fueled and armed and take it out ferrukks.
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'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Hooray! I'll take good care of it, you'zsee!
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'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Come 'ere an' let ol' Uncle Nailbrain fix ya up.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode ("Bendin' In The Wind") has someone dig up a van from the 60s and let Fry keep it. He turned it into a groupie-mobile when Bender went on tour with Music/{{Beck}}. Amy, Leela, and Zoidberg lived in the van with Fry.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode ("Bendin' In The Wind") "Bendin' in the Wind" has someone dig up a van from the 60s and let Fry keep it. He turned it into a groupie-mobile when Bender went on tour with Music/{{Beck}}. Amy, Leela, and Zoidberg lived in the van with Fry.
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* The classic Disney Short [[WesternAnimation/MiscellaneousDisneyShorts "Susie the Little Blue Coupe"]] ends with Susie rusting in the city dump, which is depicted as a graveyard for cars (complete with rusted-out radiators that resemble tombstones). A teenager buys Susie and makes her into a hot rod for a [[EarnYourHappyEnding well-earned happy ending]].
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* The classic Disney Short [[WesternAnimation/MiscellaneousDisneyShorts "Susie "[[WesternAnimation/MiscellaneousDisneyShorts Susie the Little Blue Coupe"]] Coupe]]" ends with Susie rusting in the city dump, which is depicted as a graveyard for cars (complete with rusted-out radiators that resemble tombstones). A teenager buys Susie and makes her into a hot rod for a [[EarnYourHappyEnding well-earned happy ending]].
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'': Jeremy and Hector are frequently shown working on the broken-down hulk of an old minivan they found lying in a field. Multiple strips depict them discussing repairs, overhauls or wholesale replacements for its various parts and their plans to take a cross-American road trip in it once it's working again, but comic strip continuity being what it is they never approach their goal and the van remains perpetually broken and worked upon.
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* ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'': The titular race car crashed in its last race and has been little more than children's amusement until it is due to be melted and scrapped. The Potts kids convince their father to scrape up the money to buy it, which he does and then refurbishes it into a shiny new automobile [[OrWasItADream that may or may not be able to float and fly.]]
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* In ''Film/HerbieFullyLoaded'',on a car junkshop, the main character, is at a car junkshop in search of a car as a graduation gift, gift. She finds Herbie in a derelict state and set to be crushed. She picks it, if not initially reluctant.crushed and, albeit with some initial reluctance, selects the vehicle.
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* The ''Enterprise'' crew in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' find the wreck of the ''U.S.S. Franklin'', lost nearly a century earlier, on the surface of the planet Altamid. Lacking a ship, they fix it up enough to get back to Starbase Yorktown to prevent [[BigBad Krall's]] plan to decimate the station.
* The plot of ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix1965'' and it's [[Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix2004 2004 remake]], ''and'' [[TheFilmOfTheBook the novel on which both were based]] is centered on this trope. Though instead of derelict they discover and have to repair, they build a new plane out of the wreckage of the one they crashed in the ''first'' place.
* The ''Enterprise'' crew in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' find the wreck of the ''U.S.S. Franklin'', lost nearly a century earlier, on the surface of the planet Altamid. Lacking a ship, they fix it up enough to get back to Starbase Yorktown to prevent [[BigBad Krall's]] plan to decimate the station.
* The plot of ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix1965'' and it's [[Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix2004 2004 remake]], ''and'' [[TheFilmOfTheBook the novel on which both were based]] is centered on this trope. Though instead of derelict they discover and have to repair, they build a new plane out of the wreckage of the one they crashed in the ''first'' place.
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* In ''Film/MysteryMen'', Roy is tasked by his junkyard boss to dismantle a weird old tank, but never manages to do so. Near the end of the film, the team's ally, an enthusiast for non-lethal weaponry, sees the tank and explains that it's a one-of-a-kind vehicle designed not to kill, so they resurrect it to use as their transportation to the enemy's hideout.
* In ''Film/OneCrazySummer'', the gang decides the best way to shame the Beckersted family is to beat Teddy in the annual regatta. However, they don't have a boat... until George brings them the boat Hoops and Cassandra found on the beach earlier. They fix up the boat and enter the regatta and easily defeat Teddy Beckersted [[spoiler:partly because they installed the engine from Teddy's Ferrari in it.]]
* The ''Enterprise'' crew in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' find the wreck of the ''U.S.S. Franklin'', lost nearly a century earlier, on the surface of the planet Altamid. Lacking a ship, they fix it up enough to get back to Starbase Yorktown to prevent [[BigBad Krall's]] plan to decimate thestation.
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* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': All of Oarai's tanks have been left abandoned for twenty years after the school closed its last tankery program. None of them were properly mothballed, and only one was actually left in the hanger- the rest were outside and one was even submerged in a pond. Despite this, all of them were brought up to working order within days of being found.
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* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': Mechs are known for their insane durability. Unless a mech's center torso is destroyed or it gets destroyed by artillery or nuclear attack, a mech can be repaired given enough time and money. Canonically, even a mech that had been left sitting out in the open, completely exposed to the elements for decades or possibly centuries can be brought up to working order after some time in a repair facility.
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-->'''Kirk:''' Then get me impulse power! Half-speed, quarter-speed, anything. If we can get this hulk moving, maybe we can do something.
-->'''Scotty:''' I can't repair warp drive without a Spacedock.
-->'''Kirk:''' Then get me impulse power! Half-speed, quarter-speed, anything. If we can get this hulk moving, maybe we can do something.
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* In the Creator/CarlBanks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "We Fixed A Truck", Finn, Jake, and BMO fix up an old truck they found with the help of Banana Man. They later use it to drive to the Candy Kingdom to defeat an impostor Princess Bubblegum, although the truck gets destroyed in the process. BMO is saddened by it, but Finn and Jake just respond to the burning wreck with an apathetic "meh."
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: In the GaidenGame {{TabletopGame/Gorkamorka}}, the background plot for the game is the Orks trying to rebuild the spaceship they crash-landed on the planet ''again'', because a civil war broke out over which of their identical-to-a-non-Ork gods it was meant to represent, nearly destroying the ship. The Meks working on the titular Gorkamorka manage to keep the Orks occupied by having them compete to bring in the most scrap metal to rebuild the ship and get more tags (having a tag will allow an Ork passage on the ship once it's built, so naturally, the Orks think the more tags you have the more chance you'll have to leave the planet).
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': In the GaidenGame {{TabletopGame/Gorkamorka}}, ''{{TabletopGame/Gorkamorka}}'', the background plot for the game is the Orks trying to rebuild the spaceship they crash-landed on the planet ''again'', because a civil war broke out over which of their identical-to-a-non-Ork gods it was meant to represent, nearly destroying the ship. The Meks working on the titular Gorkamorka manage to keep the Orks occupied by having them compete to bring in the most scrap metal to rebuild the ship and get more tags (having a tag will allow an Ork passage on the ship once it's built, so naturally, the Orks think the more tags you have the more chance you'll have to leave the planet).
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Well, the heroes need a vehicle. They don't know anyone who will lend them one (probably for good reason). They don't trust HonestJohnsDealership. (Would you?) And stealing is not an option. (Not that we'd condone that.) Luckily, they've found a vehicle. Unluckily, [[TheAllegedCar it's seen better days]]. Much better days. In fact, it's an abandoned wreck. But that's not going to stop the heroes. They've come back from low points. Now it's the vehicle's turn.
Resurrect The Wreck is when the heroes find their needed vehicle as a derelict and set about getting it in better condition. "Better" ranges from just running properly to something amazing. The repair job might be done in the form of a montage or interspersed with plot scenes if it takes longer. But the end result is always worth the time and effort put into working on it.
Compare BreakOutTheMuseumPiece where the vehicle in question has already been restored to working order when the heroes get their hands on it. May overlap with TheGreatRepair.
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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': Throughout the series, Tekkadan fixes several old and wrecked Gundam Frame mobile suits that they find to use in battle, such as the Gundam Barbatos (driven by Mikazuki Augus), the Gundam Gusion (driven by Akihiro Atland), and the Gundam Flauros (driven by Norba Shino, though he [[InsistentTerminology insists he and and everyone else call it Ryusei-Go]], much to everyone else's annoyance).
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'', Kou Uraki meets an ex-Principality of Zeon mobile pilot named Kelley Layzner, who is content to retire after the end of the One Year War. In his spare time, Kelley tries to restore a leftover mobile armor called the MA-06 Val Walo. While both men are aware of their past and current military affiliations, they decide to work together and repair the Val Walo because of common experience as soldiers.
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* In the Creator/CarlBanks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'': Jeremy and Hector are frequently shown working on the broken-down hulk of an old minivan they found lying in a field. Multiple strips depict them discussing repairs, overhauls or wholesale replacements for its various parts and their plans to take a cross-American road trip in it once it's working again, but comic strip continuity being what it is they never approach their goal and the van remains perpetually broken and worked upon.
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* In ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'', the CoolBoat the Ancient Mariner was initially a cargo boat used by [[{{Megacorp}} Novum]] during the company's earliest years of existence, only to end up left to spend years in the company shipyard without use as a result of TechnologyMarchesOn while the majority of the other former cargo boats ended up either sold to another company or sent on a one way trip to the scrapyard. By sheer luck, the boat that becomes the Ancient Mariner is still in the Novum shipyard when the story's BigGood Theodore Richardson finds it and decides it will fit the purposes of his plans for the then newly thought up Prehistoric Park perfectly, at which point he has it upgraded and repaired in time for the rescue team to make good use of it for the park's rescue missions.
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* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'': While preparing to defend the castle from the Deadite army, Ash recovers his smashed-up Oldsmobile. With help from the Blacksmith, he rebuilds it into a steam-powered tank called the Deathcoaster, complete with a Deadite-chopping propeller.
* ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'': The titular race car crashed in its last race and has been little more than children's amusement until it is due to be melted and scrapped. The Potts kids convince their father to scrape up the money to buy it, which he does and then refurbishes it into a shiny new automobile [[OrWasItADream that may or may not be able to float and fly.]]
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'':
** ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious2001'' has Brian's Mitsubishi Eclipse get destroyed by Johnny Tran which is unfortunate because he owes the car to Dominic. He then shows up at Dominic's garage with a wrecked Toyota Supra. Luckily, the car's [=2JZ=] engine is intact and the crew gets to working on it. The end result is powerful enough to defeat a Ferrari in a drag race.
** ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'': To race against Takashi, Sean and Han's friends restore a 1967 Ford Mustang that Sean's father was working on, using the engine salvaged from Han's destroyed Nissan Silvia S15 Spec-S.
* In ''Film/HerbieFullyLoaded'', on a car junkshop, the main character, in search of a car as a graduation gift, finds Herbie in a derelict state and set to be crushed. She picks it, if not initially reluctant.
* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Zack and Gray find an original ''Film/JurassicPark'' Jeep and get it running so they can get out of the restricted area and back to the main park without getting killed by the Indominus Rex.
* In ''Film/OneCrazySummer'', the gang decides the best way to shame the Beckersted family is to beat Teddy in the annual regatta. However, they don't have a boat...until George brings them the boat Hoops and Cassandra found on the beach earlier. They fix up the boat and enter the regatta and easily defeat Teddy Beckersted [[spoiler:partly because they installed the engine from Teddy's Ferrari in it.]]
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* When the titular group from ''Series/TheATeam'' works on a vehicle, they're usually [[WeaponizedCar weaponizing it]]. But in the episode "Knights of the Road", they end up fixing up an old tow truck which hadn't run in years. They end up using it to go after the VillainOfTheWeek [[spoiler:and when they've sufficiently angered him enough to attack them, ''then'' they weaponize it.]]
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': In "Dune Buggy", Drake's friend gives the brothers his old Dune Buggy...which is completely trashed and utterly unusable. They make fixing it into a project, but once it's fixed, their parents refuse to let them drive it. Drake drives it anyway and gets into a crash, which he's forced to hide, covering up both his horrible injuries and the damage to the buggy.
* In one episode of ''Series/SevenDays'', a man who was presumed dead after testing an earlier model of The Sphere turns out to have survived. After he blows up the current Sphere, the Backstep Project's only hope to travel back and undo it is using said earlier prototype. Not only is this risky to begin with, but this one had spent years lying in the jungle.
[[AC:Role Play]]
* In ''Roleplay/EmbersInTheDusk'', a major part of the Trust's fleet power in its first centuries stems from the fact that one of the moons in the Helheim star system has an orbiting DerelictGraveyard with over forty thousand combat wrecks in widely varying condition. The nearby shipyards of Vanaheim get into a massive backlog struggling to fix them all up.
[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' adventure [=GW6=] ''Alpha Factor''. On Mindkeep Plateau there is a maintenance hanger which holds a derelict military ground car and some mechanic's tools. The car's battery is dead, it's out of fuel and there are no keys. If the PlayerCharacters can recharge the battery, find a source of fuel and recover the keys, they can get the car running and drive it around.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': The top-[[SpellLevels level]] "Salvage" spell restores a shipwreck to full working order and lifts it to the surface of the water. Even if it began as a rotten ruin, it ends with the sails rigged and ready.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: In the GaidenGame {{TabletopGame/Gorkamorka}}, the background plot for the game is the Orks trying to rebuild the spaceship they crash-landed on the planet ''again'', because a civil war broke out over which of their identical-to-a-non-Ork gods it was meant to represent, nearly destroying the ship. The Meks working on the titular Gorkamorka manage to keep the Orks occupied by having them compete to bring in the most scrap metal to rebuild the ship and get more tags (having a tag will allow an Ork passage on the ship once it's built, so naturally, the Orks think the more tags you have the more chance you'll have to leave the planet).
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/BattleTech'', one of the campaign missions is about defending a wrecked Star League Dropship until it can be patched up enough to lift off. After that, you gain it as your base, and can spend money to restore all the various systems the patch-up didn't.
* VideoGame/DawnOfWarII: Every campaign has a level where you fight an enemy faction's (or your own faction's) superheavy unit. In the ork campaign, Mista Nailbrain convinces Kaptin Bluddflagg to let him fix the battlewagon they just trashed (named Daisy) [[https://youtu.be/Tvmgs6BPmZ4?t=237 exactly like a little boy asking to keep a wild animal as a pet.]]
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Oh, you poor poor fing. Look wot we'z gone an' done to ya. Kap'n! Kapn'! Can we'z keep 'er?
-->'''Kaptin Bludflagg:''' Okay, Nailbrain, but it's yer charge. Keep it fueled and armed and take it out fer rukks.
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Hooray! I'll take good care of it, you'z see!
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Come 'ere an' let ol' Uncle Nailbrain fix ya up.
* In ''VideoGame/DontEscape: 4 Days to Survive'', you find an old, broken-down car in an abandoned barn. To get it back in working condition (which lets you travel around the map faster and bring more items with you), you need to find gasoline, an ignition coil, and a spare tire. Later, Barry can further improve the car to reduce its gas consumption.
* ''VideoGame/{{Forza}} Horizon'' has the barn finds. Progression through the game reveals clues about neglected cars left in barns around the map. Acquiring one sends it to the player's garage where it's then fixed up and ready for racing in a little bit.
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'' has Chloe finding a rusted truck in the scrapyard. Naturally, it's the one she still drives three years later, in [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange the main game]], so her managing to fix it is already inevitable. She does so just in time [[spoiler: to rush Rachel to hospital after she's stabbed.]]
* ''VideoGame/MarvelsAvengers'': The game begins with a celebration marking the opening of the Avengers' West Coast facility in San Francisco as well as the launching of their new [[AirborneAircraftCarrier helicarrier]], the ''Chimera''. Things go awry when a terrorist attack results in MonumentalDamage to much of the city, and the ''Chimera'' crashing into San Francisco Bay. Five years later, [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]] follows leads to the Utah desert where she find someone had moved the ''Chimera'' there, but otherwise left it derelict. Part of the first part of the game involves getting the ship airworthy again before AIM comes looking for them.
* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback'' has the derelicts, cars found abandoned around the map. They only appear after the first five racing teams are defeated with each team leader giving the location for one. After finding one, the player needs to find the other parts to have a running vehicle which can then be modified for racing.
* ''VideoGame/SeaPlusPlus'': The protagonist gets the webship needed to escape the mountain-enclosed cliffside she finds herself on, by taking one of three possible wrecked webships that have already been scavenged by others and fixing it up with webship components like piping, along with maneuvering parts like a sail and engine.
* A ''VideoGame/SnowRunner'' player can acquire almost half the trucks in the game this way. There's a number of tasks where the goal is to repair a truck in the wilderness and deliver it somewhere. Other trucks can be found in similar condition just by roaming around. (However, some are actually in perfect condition, so this doesn't always come up.)
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': In ''Knights of the Fallen Empire'', after the [[PlayerCharacter Outlander]] and crew escape into the swamps of Zakuul, they come across a derelict ship that's been lying there for centuries. Koth quickly realizes it's the ''Gravestone'', the only ship known to have taken on the Eternal Fleet and won, meaning it's now a vitally important asset that they need to get operational again. Several missions are spent gathering supplies and materials for repairs and clearing out the local wildlife that have made nests inside the hulk.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/TreasurePlanetBattleAtProcyon'': During the sixth mission of the campaign mode, [[SecretCharacter it's possible to find an unmanned ship if the player goes off the beaten path]]. It's noted to be unharmed, so all that's needed is to approach it and put a skeleton crew on it, upon which it's then added to the player's personal fleet.
[[AC:Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Nearing the end of The SleepWalker Arc, Linkara's friends and [[spoiler:Lord Vyce]] repair Comicron 1 after it had crashed on the moon. Somewhat unusually, they didn't need the spaceship for travel or combat, but rather [[spoiler:to free Linkara after he was possessed by The Entity.]]
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "We Fixed A Truck", Finn, Jake, and BMO fix up an old truck they found with the help of Banana Man. They later use it to drive to the Candy Kingdom to defeat an impostor Princess Bubblegum, although the truck gets destroyed in the process. BMO is saddened by it, but Finn and Jake just respond to the burning wreck with an apathetic "meh."
* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Jungle Duck" has Scrooge head to the jungle to find a rumored silver statue of a condor, believing there's a silver mine to go with it. Unfortunately, Launchpad crashes their plane when landing. After an adventure with a group of unfriendly natives and Literature/{{Tarzan}} {{Expy}} Greydrake, they find the "statue". It's actually another crashed plane, the one Greydrake came in on. When Mrs. Beakley points out that Greydrake is supposed to be coronated in a few days, they set about repairing the plane.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode ("Bendin' In The Wind") has someone dig up a van from the 60s and let Fry keep it. He turned it into a groupie-mobile when Bender went on tour with Music/{{Beck}}. Amy, Leela, and Zoidberg lived in the van with Fry.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Tripped!", the Louds lose their car, but they find an old plane. Thankfully, Rita has a pilot's license and Lana can repair engines.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': Coop finds the titular HumongousMecha rusting in a junkyard under a colossal mountain of junk. According to the yard's owner, Goat, the pile (and, by extension, the robot) had been sitting there since at least the 1930s. The two of them manage to restore MEGAS to working order, give it a sick paint job, and rig up a muscle car to replace its missing head.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': [[spoiler:After their monastery is burned down by the Serpentine]], the ninja move into a derelict ship called the ''Destiny's Bounty'' that Zane finds in the desert. They spend the beginning of the next day cleaning it and Jay installs a system to allow the ship to fly in order to make it a mobile base. We later see how the ship and its original pirate crew sank during a storm long ago, and in the same episode, the pirates are resurrected and [[PiratesVersusNinjas battle the ninja]]. While the ninja also go on to use other headquarters, the ''Bounty'' and updated versions of it serve as their HQ for the majority of the series, [[spoiler:being rebuilt or upgraded every time it's damaged or destroyed]].
* The classic Disney Short [[WesternAnimation/MiscellaneousDisneyShorts "Susie the Little Blue Coupe"]] ends with the titular car now rusting in the city dump. A teenager buys Susie and makes her into a hot rod for a [[EarnYourHappyEnding well-earned happy ending]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': Happens a few times throughout the series with old vehicles Donatello fixes and modifies for the turtles to use against their foes. He first turns an old subway car Leatherhead was living in into the Shellraiser, later a vintage truck found in a barn into the Turtle Racer, and finally Kirby O'Neil's old van into the Party Wagon.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'':
** In the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS22E11SchoolOfDuck School of Duck]]", the school at Harwick is damaged by a storm, rendering the children unable to go to it until it's rebuilt. While the school is being rebuilt, Daisy is left to take the children to the school at Knapford, much to her dismay. Duck, thinking the job sounds like fun, decides to look for a coach after delivering a train of scrap to Reg so he can do it. Unfortunately, every coach he finds is being used by another engine. Duck eventually comes across Dexter, a decrepit coach abandoned in an overgrown siding, whom he is unable to pull due to broken axles. When he hears from Daisy that it could be months before the School at Harwick is repaired, Duck decides to take Reg's advice about recycling old things and making them new again. He comes across Dexter again and uses Judy and Jerome to take him to the Steamworks to turn him into a mobile classroom.
** In "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS5E16ThomasPercyAndOldSlowcoach Thomas, Percy, and Old Slow Coach]]", while delivering a train of scrap to the scrap yard, Thomas and Percy come across Old Slow Coach, an abandoned coach set to be broken up despite otherwise being in perfect shape. Thomas and Percy wish there was something they could do to save her, and they get their wish when a workman's hut catches fire and burns down despite the firemen's best attempts to put it out (Thomas and Percy even help by letting them use the water from their newly-filled tanks). The two tank engines suggest that Old Slow Coach be used as a new hut for the workmen, and Sir Topham Hatt has her restored to her former glory.
** In "The Refreshment Lady's Tea Shop/The Refreshment Lady's Stand", Sir Topham Hatt gives Peter Sam the job of finding a new location for the Refreshment Lady's tea shop. Peter Sam shows the Refreshment Lady the Woodland Way, the Old Castle Causeway, and the Whistling Waterfall, but since she likes all three of these locations, she doesn't know which one she should choose. The following night, a storm breaks out, and when Peter Sam is sent to help Rusty clear the damage, they find a derelict railway coach. Peter Sam collects the coach and gives Sir Topham Hatt the idea to turn it into a mobile tea shop, that way, the Refreshment Lady can sell refreshments wherever and whenever she likes.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* [[https://historygarage.com/emile-leray-survived-the-desert-by-building-a-motorcycle-from-his-broken-car/ A man's car broke down in the Sahara desert]], but he was able to jury-rig it into a ''motorcycle'' to escape.
MotorVehicleTropes
Resurrect The Wreck is when the heroes find their needed vehicle as a derelict and set about getting it in better condition. "Better" ranges from just running properly to something amazing. The repair job might be done in the form of a montage or interspersed with plot scenes if it takes longer. But the end result is always worth the time and effort put into working on it.
Compare BreakOutTheMuseumPiece where the vehicle in question has already been restored to working order when the heroes get their hands on it. May overlap with TheGreatRepair.
!!Examples:
[[AC:Advertising]]
* A commercial for Autozone ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h127L1xi9Q "Free Ride"]]) has a young man come upon an abandoned car. There's a sign in the window that says "If you can fix her, you can have her." The kid goes to Autozone to get the parts he needs to fix it and gets help from one of the employees. The commercial ends with the boy buying an air freshener and driving off in the car he was fixing up.
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': Throughout the series, Tekkadan fixes several old and wrecked Gundam Frame mobile suits that they find to use in battle, such as the Gundam Barbatos (driven by Mikazuki Augus), the Gundam Gusion (driven by Akihiro Atland), and the Gundam Flauros (driven by Norba Shino, though he [[InsistentTerminology insists he and and everyone else call it Ryusei-Go]], much to everyone else's annoyance).
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'', Kou Uraki meets an ex-Principality of Zeon mobile pilot named Kelley Layzner, who is content to retire after the end of the One Year War. In his spare time, Kelley tries to restore a leftover mobile armor called the MA-06 Val Walo. While both men are aware of their past and current military affiliations, they decide to work together and repair the Val Walo because of common experience as soldiers.
[[AC:Comic Books]]
* In the Creator/CarlBanks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!
[[AC:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'': Jeremy and Hector are frequently shown working on the broken-down hulk of an old minivan they found lying in a field. Multiple strips depict them discussing repairs, overhauls or wholesale replacements for its various parts and their plans to take a cross-American road trip in it once it's working again, but comic strip continuity being what it is they never approach their goal and the van remains perpetually broken and worked upon.
[[AC:Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'', the CoolBoat the Ancient Mariner was initially a cargo boat used by [[{{Megacorp}} Novum]] during the company's earliest years of existence, only to end up left to spend years in the company shipyard without use as a result of TechnologyMarchesOn while the majority of the other former cargo boats ended up either sold to another company or sent on a one way trip to the scrapyard. By sheer luck, the boat that becomes the Ancient Mariner is still in the Novum shipyard when the story's BigGood Theodore Richardson finds it and decides it will fit the purposes of his plans for the then newly thought up Prehistoric Park perfectly, at which point he has it upgraded and repaired in time for the rescue team to make good use of it for the park's rescue missions.
[[AC:Film-Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE,'' after Cale is marooned on a drifter colony, he and Akima find an old ship integrated into the colony. Once Cale determines its engines are intact, they begin restoring it to flying condition so they can catch up with the rest of their crew, [[spoiler: and prevent Korso from turning the ''Titan'' over to the Drej]].
[[AC:Film-Live Action]]
* ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'': While preparing to defend the castle from the Deadite army, Ash recovers his smashed-up Oldsmobile. With help from the Blacksmith, he rebuilds it into a steam-powered tank called the Deathcoaster, complete with a Deadite-chopping propeller.
* ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'': The titular race car crashed in its last race and has been little more than children's amusement until it is due to be melted and scrapped. The Potts kids convince their father to scrape up the money to buy it, which he does and then refurbishes it into a shiny new automobile [[OrWasItADream that may or may not be able to float and fly.]]
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'':
** ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious2001'' has Brian's Mitsubishi Eclipse get destroyed by Johnny Tran which is unfortunate because he owes the car to Dominic. He then shows up at Dominic's garage with a wrecked Toyota Supra. Luckily, the car's [=2JZ=] engine is intact and the crew gets to working on it. The end result is powerful enough to defeat a Ferrari in a drag race.
** ''Film/TheFastAndTheFuriousTokyoDrift'': To race against Takashi, Sean and Han's friends restore a 1967 Ford Mustang that Sean's father was working on, using the engine salvaged from Han's destroyed Nissan Silvia S15 Spec-S.
* In ''Film/HerbieFullyLoaded'', on a car junkshop, the main character, in search of a car as a graduation gift, finds Herbie in a derelict state and set to be crushed. She picks it, if not initially reluctant.
* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Zack and Gray find an original ''Film/JurassicPark'' Jeep and get it running so they can get out of the restricted area and back to the main park without getting killed by the Indominus Rex.
* In ''Film/OneCrazySummer'', the gang decides the best way to shame the Beckersted family is to beat Teddy in the annual regatta. However, they don't have a boat...until George brings them the boat Hoops and Cassandra found on the beach earlier. They fix up the boat and enter the regatta and easily defeat Teddy Beckersted [[spoiler:partly because they installed the engine from Teddy's Ferrari in it.]]
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Christine}}'': Arnie Cunningham buys the titular derelict 1958 Plymouth Fury from George [=LeBay=], who is aware that the [[SentientVehicle car is sentient]] and rightly thinks Arnie should try to dispose of the car quickly. [=LeBay=]'s pleas go unnoticed as Arnie slowly becomes a jerk towards others thanks to his obsession with Christine, and by the end of the book, he's become a full-on maniac.
[[AC:Live Action Television]]
* When the titular group from ''Series/TheATeam'' works on a vehicle, they're usually [[WeaponizedCar weaponizing it]]. But in the episode "Knights of the Road", they end up fixing up an old tow truck which hadn't run in years. They end up using it to go after the VillainOfTheWeek [[spoiler:and when they've sufficiently angered him enough to attack them, ''then'' they weaponize it.]]
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': In "Dune Buggy", Drake's friend gives the brothers his old Dune Buggy...which is completely trashed and utterly unusable. They make fixing it into a project, but once it's fixed, their parents refuse to let them drive it. Drake drives it anyway and gets into a crash, which he's forced to hide, covering up both his horrible injuries and the damage to the buggy.
* In one episode of ''Series/SevenDays'', a man who was presumed dead after testing an earlier model of The Sphere turns out to have survived. After he blows up the current Sphere, the Backstep Project's only hope to travel back and undo it is using said earlier prototype. Not only is this risky to begin with, but this one had spent years lying in the jungle.
[[AC:Role Play]]
* In ''Roleplay/EmbersInTheDusk'', a major part of the Trust's fleet power in its first centuries stems from the fact that one of the moons in the Helheim star system has an orbiting DerelictGraveyard with over forty thousand combat wrecks in widely varying condition. The nearby shipyards of Vanaheim get into a massive backlog struggling to fix them all up.
[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' adventure [=GW6=] ''Alpha Factor''. On Mindkeep Plateau there is a maintenance hanger which holds a derelict military ground car and some mechanic's tools. The car's battery is dead, it's out of fuel and there are no keys. If the PlayerCharacters can recharge the battery, find a source of fuel and recover the keys, they can get the car running and drive it around.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': The top-[[SpellLevels level]] "Salvage" spell restores a shipwreck to full working order and lifts it to the surface of the water. Even if it began as a rotten ruin, it ends with the sails rigged and ready.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: In the GaidenGame {{TabletopGame/Gorkamorka}}, the background plot for the game is the Orks trying to rebuild the spaceship they crash-landed on the planet ''again'', because a civil war broke out over which of their identical-to-a-non-Ork gods it was meant to represent, nearly destroying the ship. The Meks working on the titular Gorkamorka manage to keep the Orks occupied by having them compete to bring in the most scrap metal to rebuild the ship and get more tags (having a tag will allow an Ork passage on the ship once it's built, so naturally, the Orks think the more tags you have the more chance you'll have to leave the planet).
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/BattleTech'', one of the campaign missions is about defending a wrecked Star League Dropship until it can be patched up enough to lift off. After that, you gain it as your base, and can spend money to restore all the various systems the patch-up didn't.
* VideoGame/DawnOfWarII: Every campaign has a level where you fight an enemy faction's (or your own faction's) superheavy unit. In the ork campaign, Mista Nailbrain convinces Kaptin Bluddflagg to let him fix the battlewagon they just trashed (named Daisy) [[https://youtu.be/Tvmgs6BPmZ4?t=237 exactly like a little boy asking to keep a wild animal as a pet.]]
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Oh, you poor poor fing. Look wot we'z gone an' done to ya. Kap'n! Kapn'! Can we'z keep 'er?
-->'''Kaptin Bludflagg:''' Okay, Nailbrain, but it's yer charge. Keep it fueled and armed and take it out fer rukks.
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Hooray! I'll take good care of it, you'z see!
-->'''Mista Nailbrain:''' Come 'ere an' let ol' Uncle Nailbrain fix ya up.
* In ''VideoGame/DontEscape: 4 Days to Survive'', you find an old, broken-down car in an abandoned barn. To get it back in working condition (which lets you travel around the map faster and bring more items with you), you need to find gasoline, an ignition coil, and a spare tire. Later, Barry can further improve the car to reduce its gas consumption.
* ''VideoGame/{{Forza}} Horizon'' has the barn finds. Progression through the game reveals clues about neglected cars left in barns around the map. Acquiring one sends it to the player's garage where it's then fixed up and ready for racing in a little bit.
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'' has Chloe finding a rusted truck in the scrapyard. Naturally, it's the one she still drives three years later, in [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrange the main game]], so her managing to fix it is already inevitable. She does so just in time [[spoiler: to rush Rachel to hospital after she's stabbed.]]
* ''VideoGame/MarvelsAvengers'': The game begins with a celebration marking the opening of the Avengers' West Coast facility in San Francisco as well as the launching of their new [[AirborneAircraftCarrier helicarrier]], the ''Chimera''. Things go awry when a terrorist attack results in MonumentalDamage to much of the city, and the ''Chimera'' crashing into San Francisco Bay. Five years later, [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]] follows leads to the Utah desert where she find someone had moved the ''Chimera'' there, but otherwise left it derelict. Part of the first part of the game involves getting the ship airworthy again before AIM comes looking for them.
* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback'' has the derelicts, cars found abandoned around the map. They only appear after the first five racing teams are defeated with each team leader giving the location for one. After finding one, the player needs to find the other parts to have a running vehicle which can then be modified for racing.
* ''VideoGame/SeaPlusPlus'': The protagonist gets the webship needed to escape the mountain-enclosed cliffside she finds herself on, by taking one of three possible wrecked webships that have already been scavenged by others and fixing it up with webship components like piping, along with maneuvering parts like a sail and engine.
* A ''VideoGame/SnowRunner'' player can acquire almost half the trucks in the game this way. There's a number of tasks where the goal is to repair a truck in the wilderness and deliver it somewhere. Other trucks can be found in similar condition just by roaming around. (However, some are actually in perfect condition, so this doesn't always come up.)
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': In ''Knights of the Fallen Empire'', after the [[PlayerCharacter Outlander]] and crew escape into the swamps of Zakuul, they come across a derelict ship that's been lying there for centuries. Koth quickly realizes it's the ''Gravestone'', the only ship known to have taken on the Eternal Fleet and won, meaning it's now a vitally important asset that they need to get operational again. Several missions are spent gathering supplies and materials for repairs and clearing out the local wildlife that have made nests inside the hulk.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/TreasurePlanetBattleAtProcyon'': During the sixth mission of the campaign mode, [[SecretCharacter it's possible to find an unmanned ship if the player goes off the beaten path]]. It's noted to be unharmed, so all that's needed is to approach it and put a skeleton crew on it, upon which it's then added to the player's personal fleet.
[[AC:Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Nearing the end of The SleepWalker Arc, Linkara's friends and [[spoiler:Lord Vyce]] repair Comicron 1 after it had crashed on the moon. Somewhat unusually, they didn't need the spaceship for travel or combat, but rather [[spoiler:to free Linkara after he was possessed by The Entity.]]
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "We Fixed A Truck", Finn, Jake, and BMO fix up an old truck they found with the help of Banana Man. They later use it to drive to the Candy Kingdom to defeat an impostor Princess Bubblegum, although the truck gets destroyed in the process. BMO is saddened by it, but Finn and Jake just respond to the burning wreck with an apathetic "meh."
* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Jungle Duck" has Scrooge head to the jungle to find a rumored silver statue of a condor, believing there's a silver mine to go with it. Unfortunately, Launchpad crashes their plane when landing. After an adventure with a group of unfriendly natives and Literature/{{Tarzan}} {{Expy}} Greydrake, they find the "statue". It's actually another crashed plane, the one Greydrake came in on. When Mrs. Beakley points out that Greydrake is supposed to be coronated in a few days, they set about repairing the plane.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode ("Bendin' In The Wind") has someone dig up a van from the 60s and let Fry keep it. He turned it into a groupie-mobile when Bender went on tour with Music/{{Beck}}. Amy, Leela, and Zoidberg lived in the van with Fry.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Tripped!", the Louds lose their car, but they find an old plane. Thankfully, Rita has a pilot's license and Lana can repair engines.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': Coop finds the titular HumongousMecha rusting in a junkyard under a colossal mountain of junk. According to the yard's owner, Goat, the pile (and, by extension, the robot) had been sitting there since at least the 1930s. The two of them manage to restore MEGAS to working order, give it a sick paint job, and rig up a muscle car to replace its missing head.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': [[spoiler:After their monastery is burned down by the Serpentine]], the ninja move into a derelict ship called the ''Destiny's Bounty'' that Zane finds in the desert. They spend the beginning of the next day cleaning it and Jay installs a system to allow the ship to fly in order to make it a mobile base. We later see how the ship and its original pirate crew sank during a storm long ago, and in the same episode, the pirates are resurrected and [[PiratesVersusNinjas battle the ninja]]. While the ninja also go on to use other headquarters, the ''Bounty'' and updated versions of it serve as their HQ for the majority of the series, [[spoiler:being rebuilt or upgraded every time it's damaged or destroyed]].
* The classic Disney Short [[WesternAnimation/MiscellaneousDisneyShorts "Susie the Little Blue Coupe"]] ends with the titular car now rusting in the city dump. A teenager buys Susie and makes her into a hot rod for a [[EarnYourHappyEnding well-earned happy ending]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': Happens a few times throughout the series with old vehicles Donatello fixes and modifies for the turtles to use against their foes. He first turns an old subway car Leatherhead was living in into the Shellraiser, later a vintage truck found in a barn into the Turtle Racer, and finally Kirby O'Neil's old van into the Party Wagon.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'':
** In the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS22E11SchoolOfDuck School of Duck]]", the school at Harwick is damaged by a storm, rendering the children unable to go to it until it's rebuilt. While the school is being rebuilt, Daisy is left to take the children to the school at Knapford, much to her dismay. Duck, thinking the job sounds like fun, decides to look for a coach after delivering a train of scrap to Reg so he can do it. Unfortunately, every coach he finds is being used by another engine. Duck eventually comes across Dexter, a decrepit coach abandoned in an overgrown siding, whom he is unable to pull due to broken axles. When he hears from Daisy that it could be months before the School at Harwick is repaired, Duck decides to take Reg's advice about recycling old things and making them new again. He comes across Dexter again and uses Judy and Jerome to take him to the Steamworks to turn him into a mobile classroom.
** In "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS5E16ThomasPercyAndOldSlowcoach Thomas, Percy, and Old Slow Coach]]", while delivering a train of scrap to the scrap yard, Thomas and Percy come across Old Slow Coach, an abandoned coach set to be broken up despite otherwise being in perfect shape. Thomas and Percy wish there was something they could do to save her, and they get their wish when a workman's hut catches fire and burns down despite the firemen's best attempts to put it out (Thomas and Percy even help by letting them use the water from their newly-filled tanks). The two tank engines suggest that Old Slow Coach be used as a new hut for the workmen, and Sir Topham Hatt has her restored to her former glory.
** In "The Refreshment Lady's Tea Shop/The Refreshment Lady's Stand", Sir Topham Hatt gives Peter Sam the job of finding a new location for the Refreshment Lady's tea shop. Peter Sam shows the Refreshment Lady the Woodland Way, the Old Castle Causeway, and the Whistling Waterfall, but since she likes all three of these locations, she doesn't know which one she should choose. The following night, a storm breaks out, and when Peter Sam is sent to help Rusty clear the damage, they find a derelict railway coach. Peter Sam collects the coach and gives Sir Topham Hatt the idea to turn it into a mobile tea shop, that way, the Refreshment Lady can sell refreshments wherever and whenever she likes.
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* [[https://historygarage.com/emile-leray-survived-the-desert-by-building-a-motorcycle-from-his-broken-car/ A man's car broke down in the Sahara desert]], but he was able to jury-rig it into a ''motorcycle'' to escape.
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