It was just different back then and this was actually a fairly common practice. My dad did this as a summer job during college, and delivered lots of cars between states. It's usually for dealer trades for cars that were limited production, that had very specific option packages, or that people either couldn't special order, or didn't want to wait for. I guess people just didn't really care as much. You would never do that now, as no one would take delivery of a new car as a new once the odometer made it into the triple digits -- you would be flat decking or putting it on a car carrier for sure.
In real life, I doubt you could trash the cars that hard. That Chrysler Imperial that Kowalski rolls into the garage with in the beginning was basically the Mercedes S-Class of its day, and there is no way that anyone accepting a $10000+ car (in 70's dollars) would accept it if it wasn't perfect.
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