Special Vehicles in GTA San Andreas
Special Vehicles are types of vehicles that have unique qualities in contrast to standard ones. Such of these are unique/permanent colors and proofing against bullets, explosions, fire, or collisions. Also take note that the accuracy of the page history may not be correct.
Unique trait | Code | Description |
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Bullet-proof | BP | The vehicle receives no damage from direct hits from bullets. |
Fire-proof | FP | The vehicle receives no damage from any flames or fires except when the vehicle is already burning from other forms of damage. |
Explosion-proof | EP | The vehicle receives no damage from any explosions inflicted upon the vehicle. |
Damage-proof | DP | The vehicle receives no damage from collisions or any form of physical damage (i.e. melee weapons). |
Pop-proof | PP | The vehicle's tires cannot be popped by any means. This property cannot be saved in a garage. |
Permanent color | PC | The vehicle's paint job cannot be changed in a spray shop when it could otherwise. This property cannot be saved in a garage. |
Heavy | H | The vehicle's mass is greater than it should be normally. The car will feel "heavier" and will lose less momentum when colliding into dynamic objects. However, heavy cars are more susceptible to damage and will only take two or three hits before starting smoking or even exploding. This property cannot be saved in a garage. |
Unique paint job | Name of color | The vehicle's paint job is unique and cannot be obtained through spray shops, mod shops, or permanent parking spots. However, the unique paintjob can be painted over and lost if the player enters a spray shop with the vehicle. |
Unique handling | UH | The vehicle's handling is altered to let the player be able to cut corners and turn more quickly than normal. This property cannot be saved in a garage. |
Rare | R | The model of the vehicle appears only a few times during missions in the game (i.e. the Spand Express). |
Unobtainable | U | The vehicle cannot be accessed or driven by the player outside the mission. Obtaining and saving the vehicle is near impossible without resorting to modifications (i.e. Andromada), except if obtained using cheats (i.e. Turismo Cheetahs). |
- Destroying a proofed vehicle
Proofed vehicles are not indestructible. There are many of ways to wreck a BP/FP/EP/DP vehicle, including:
- Flipping the car up-side down.
- Getting hit by a tank (except in GTA San Andreas)
- Sinking the car in the water.
- Using the Blow-up all cars cheat.
- Getting in the vehicle while the player is on fire.
- Using a car bomb to detonate the vehicle.
- Taking the car to the crusher and crush the vehicle.
- Taking it to a girlfriends' house and have coffee with her/them then the car will lose its special property and simply become normal again.
Vehicle | Unique Color | Unique Handling | Special Abilities | Mission | Notes/How To Aquire The Vehicles Guide | |
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Admiral | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Los Sepulcros | Save a Tow Truck in the Ganton Garage, get in, leave sweet behind, kill one of the ballas to fail, then tow the Locked Admiral to a garage. | |
Berkley's RC Van | RC Stickers, Rear view lights | Yes | None | Beefy Baron | It can rarely seen in the traffic, somewhere near the Zero RC shop in San Fierro or somewhere in the desert. | |
BF Injection | Black, Red | No | None | Cut Throat Business | Kill Madd Dogg then take the car to a garage. | |
BF-400 | No | No | DP, FP, EP | Just Business | Use the Blow Up All Cars Cheat, before Big Smoke gets on, then using a Sawn off Shotgun, shoot it to a Garage. | |
Blade | No | No | FP | High Stakes, Low Rider | Same with the Savanna Method. | |
Bobcat | Black | No | None | Stowaway | Simply park it in a garage. Be careful; if the plane takes off while you are entering the vehicle, the game will freeze. | |
Boxville | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | T-Bone Mendez | Use the blow up all cars Cheat, then push to a garage. | |
Bravura | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | The Green Sabre | Unobtainable. | |
Buffalo | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Misappropriation/High Noon | Put some satchel charges to the target's Maverick, then get a tractor/towtruck, move to the 10th level of the Emerald Isle, fuse the charges, wait to fail the mission, then tow the "White" Buffalo to the garage. | |
Burrito | Chrome Yellow | No | None | Mike Toreno | Kill T-Bone Mendez or Mike Toreno after acquiring a Tow Truck, then tow it to the nearest garage. | |
Camper | Khaki Brown | No | None | Jizzy | Kill the Jizzy B. hoe then take it to a garage. | |
Elegy | No | No | BP, FP, EP | Farewell, My Love... | Push the Elegy to the water, watch the car as it sinks, then turn around, the Elegy should behind your back, fail the mission by get out of your car, then push it to the garage. (If the tractor is nearby, swap to it, then tow it to the garage.) | |
FCR-900 | Red Spokes | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | T-Bone Mendez (DP, BP, FP, EP)/Toreno's Last Flight (conventional model) | Store it after the mission in the garage. (Toreno's Last Flight) | |
Feltzer | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | End of the Line | Sink it to the Glen Park water to fail the mission. (Do not lose the Firetruck otherwise the abilities will lose.) Then drive it to the garage. | |
Fire Truck | No | Heavy | DP, BP, FP, EP | End of the Line | Unobtainable. | |
Forklift | No | No | BP | Robbing Uncle Sam | Kill Ryder to fail the mission, then store into a garage. | |
Fortune | No | No | BP, FP, EP | Wu Zi Mu | Start the mission, as soon as the race begins, swing to the right and force the Pink Fortune into a shed. There's only one way into this shed. Block the entrance with your car then exit. Let the 25 second count down fail the mission then use your vehicle to hit the Pink Fortune, forcing the driver out. Now, the "fun" part is that you'll need to push this vehicle to a garage. You can push it to either the safe-house in Dillimore or the safe-house in Palimino Creek. | |
Glendale | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Los Desperados | Kill Cesar or his gang members to fail the mission, then tow the car using a Towtruck or Tractor to the garage. | |
Greenwood | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Drive-Thru (FP)/House Party (BP, FP)/End of the Line (DP, BP, FP, EP) | Arm the bomb using the bomb shop, then skip the two cutscenes when you go near the fortress (if you don't skip the cutscenes the bomb will not work), wait for it to blow, then use the Sawn-off Shotgun, to shoot it to the garage. (End of the Line) | |
Huntley | Black | Heavy | No | Jizzy | Can be acquired with use of a mod garage. (Not Heavy) | |
HPV-1000 | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Small Town Bank/Quarry Mission 7 | Kill Catalina after the cutscene when two police bikers appear in front of them, then store it to the garage. | |
Infernus | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Beat Down on B-Dup | Kill Sweet to fail the mission, then store it using the tow truck to the garage. | |
Leviathan | No | No | Magnet | Up, Up and Away | Unobtainable. | |
Majestic | No | No | FP | High Stakes, Low Rider | Same with the Savanna method. | |
Maverick | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Toreno's Last Flight/Misappropriation | Bring the Towtruck to the destination, then kill the target and get the dossier to complete the mission (be quick before he goes to his Maverick and lose its abilities), then tow the target's Maverick to the aircraft garage in the airstrip. | |
Merit | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | 555 We Tip | Once you put the Merit to the parking area, wait for the valet to enter the car, shoot him, then re-enter the car, leave the car open to the garage (as the car is locked when you close it), make some fire, then enter the car while on fire to destroy it and to fail the mission, then close the garage to make it renew again and keeps its abilities. | |
Mesa | Dark Green Roof | No | None | Robbing Uncle Sam | Kill Ryder to fail the mission, then store it to the garage. | |
Mothership | Hippie Paintjob | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Are You Going to San Fierro? (DP, BP, FP, EP)/Black Project (DP, BP, FP, EP)/Riot | Store it to the garage before dropping Sweet to the Grove Street. (Riot) | |
Mule | No | No | EP | Robbing Uncle Sam | Pass the mission, then store it to the garage. | |
Newsvan | Vanilla Cream | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Cut Throat Business | Put Madd Dogg some satchel charges and leave him behind, then go to the video shoot, make some fire, then enter the Newsvan while on fire to destroy it, fuse the charges to kill Madd Dogg to fail the mission, then use the Sawn-off Shotgun, to shoot it to the garage. | |
Packer | Light Green | No | None | Cop Wheels | Kill the driver to fail the mission, then store it to the garage. | |
Patriot | No | No | BP, FP, EP | Big Smoke's Cash | Get the Towtruck, then follow the Patriot, not ramming it. Then when the Patriot stops, the mission fails, then tow it to the garage. (Keep the camera to the Patriot otherwise it will disappear.) | |
PCJ-600 | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | OG Loc | After the cutscene where Freddy has fled, get off of the vehicle that CJ is currently on, bring OG Loc along as well, and walk towards where Freddy is, however, there is a certain distance when Freddy starts firing at CJ. When this is reached, go no further, because he will escape with the bike. After reaching this distance, kill OG Loc to fail the mission. Freddy will disappear, and leave the bike behind. After this, go take the bike and save it in a storage. | |
Perennial | Black | No | None | Big Smoke | Can be aquired with the all black cars cheat, then if you find one, store it to the garage. (Mod Garage cannot paint its roof.) | |
Picador | Crates in Back | No | None | Catalyst | Unobtainable. | |
Pizza Boy | Green | No | None | Ice Cold Killa | Destroy Jizzy's Broadway before entering the club. Then he will escape on the pizza boy , then simply do the mission | |
Pony | Dark Teal | Yes | Off-Road Wheels, Sound System | Life's a Beach | Drive it to the garage, then use explosives to destroy it to fail the mission, then keep it inside the garage. | |
Pony | Light Blue | No | None | Toreno's Last Flight | Keep it after the mission (If you use it to chase the Maverick) or destroy the Maverick using the Heat-Seeking Rocket Launcher (If you have), then keep it to the garage. | |
Rancher | No | No | DP, FP, EP | Lure | Unobtainable | |
Remington | No | No | FP | High Stakes, Low Rider | Same with the Savanna method. | |
Rumpo | No | No | DP, FP | Outrider | Kill the driver to fail the mission, then store it to the garage. | |
Sabre | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | The Green Sabre/Tanker Commander/Wu Zi Mu (FP) | The vehicles will replenish health once damaged to the point of smoke display. | |
Sadler | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Tanker Commander/Are You Going to San Fierro? (EP) | Pass the mission, then go to the gas station near the trucking mission, then store it to the garage. (Destroy first the pursuers to make it indestructible.) | |
Sanchez | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Wrong Side of the Tracks/Badlands | After Big Smoke killed all the Vagos, drive to the Fisher's Lagoon, sink it (but not too deep otherwise you can't get it) kill Big Smoke to fail the mission, then store it to the garage. (Wrong Side of the Tracks) | |
Savanna | No | No | BP, FP, EP | High Stakes, Low Rider | Pass or fail the mission, then push it to the nearest garage. | |
Securicar | Caligula's Paintjob | No | None | Breaking the Bank at Caligula's | Unobtainable | |
Sentinel | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | The Green Sabre (DP, BP, FP, EP)/Saint Mark's Bistro(DP, BP, FP, EP)/Intensive Care (DP) /Mountain Cloud Boys (mission)(DP, BP, FP, EP) |
The vehicles will replenish health once damaged to the point of smoke display.
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Stallion | No | No | FP | Wu Zi Mu | Same with the Fortune Method. | |
Stretch | White, Black, Black | None | None | Jizzy (white-black), Ice Cold Killa (black) | Drive it to the garage, then suicide to fail the mission. (Date Katie first to keep your weapons in your pocket.) (Ice Cold Killa) | |
Sultan | No | No | FP | Farewell, My Love... | Same with the Elegy method. | |
SWAT Tank | Blue | No | BP, FP | End of the Line |
Drive it to the garage, then destroy it using explosives to fail the mission. (Do not go to the wall going to the fortress in order not to lose the abilities.) Then keep it to the garage. | |
Tahoma | No | No | BP, FP | House Party | Simply pass or fail the mission, then push the Locked Tahoma to the garage. | |
Tampa | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Nines and AKs | Kill Big Smoke or Emmet to fail the mission, then push it to the garage. | |
Tanker | No | No | BP | Tanker Commander | Go to the garage that is big enough, kill Catalina to fail the mission, then store it. (Do not attach it to the trailer otherwise it is not BP.) | |
Tanker Trailer | No | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Tanker Commander | Unobtainable. | |
Voodoo | No | No | BP, FP | House Party | Simply pass or fail the mission, then push the Locked Voodoo to the garage. | |
Vortex | Plain White, White and Black | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Cut Throat Business | Same with the Newsvan Method. (Except that you can drive it to the garage.) | |
Walton | Plain White | No | DP, BP, FP, EP | Don Peyote/Madd Dogg (plain white). |
Shoot the drivers through the windshield then store the vehicle in a garage. (Don Peyote)
Let Madd Dogg jump to fail the mission, then store it to the garage or complete the mission, then store it to the garage. (Madd Dogg) | |
ZR-350 | No | No |
FP, Off-road wheels |
Farewell, My Love... |
Keep your car after the race. (Pass or Fail) (Off-road Wheels)
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