Racing is, ultimately, a pastime of luxury. We can – to some degree anyway – survive without it. With that in mind, we’re able to sort of wrap our head around this gallery of race cars, some of them with fairly lust-worthy lineage, that have been left to face the harsh elements of time. Sometimes priorities change and the regular attention required to maintain a race car gets put on the back burner, where it occasionally stays.

These images come to us by way of the people at 95 Customs, who apparently revel in tragedy, as this group of pictures don’t seem to have a common thread other than the dead race car depicted in each photo. To gaze upon these dilapidated racing machines, which include a Porsche 930, a race-prepped Acura NSX, and a Lancia Stratos that has become a makeshift dog house (pictured above), we can almost see into each car’s proud past when these vehicles were finely tuned track weapons, primed and ready to hit the road course.

Sadly those days are far behind most of the cars here. It’s hard to imagine living a lifestyle where a major investment like a race car can be inconsequential enough to simply be permanently forgotten, but apparently there’s enough money to go around to make this scenario feasible for these folks.

So tell us, fine readers, what’s the most egregious abandonment in this collection? For us, it would have to be the Lanica Rally 037 from the legendary but short-lived Group B rally series – though that one looks like it might not take too much to get it back out on the circuits. One can only hope.