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This is a list of Special Vehicles throughout the 3D Universe. Special vehicles are a type of vehicle that has unique qualities in contrast to standard ones. Such of these are unique/permanent colors and proofing against bullets, explosions, fire, and/or even collisions.

Unique trait Code Description
All-proof AP The vehicle receives no damage from anything. (BP/FP/EP/DP/MP)
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. However, this does not protect the vehicle from melee damage if not coupled with Melee-proofing.
Melee-proof MP The vehicle does not receive any damage from any melee attacks (i.e. stomping or punching the vehicle). This does not protect the vehicle from collision damage if not coupled with Damage-proofing.
Tip-proof TP The vehicle will not catch fire when it's tipped over. This property is available in any 3D-era GTA, but can only be saved in a garage in GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories.
Permanent Color PC The vehicle's paint job cannot be changed in a spray shop when it could otherwise.
Heavy H The vehicle's mass is greater than it should normally be, meaning the vehicle will lose less momentum when colliding into dynamic objects. The downside to this is that collisions will damage the vehicle more than it would normally and it reflects the same amount of your hit.
Unique Paintjob Name of color The vehicle's paint job is unique and cannot be obtained through spray shops or mod shops. However, the unique paint job 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.
Pop-Proof PP The vehicle's tires cannot be popped by any means.
Water-Proof WP The vehicle will not sink in the water where it will just blast through, falling into Blue Hell.
Double Damage DD The vehicle will take twice as much damage than ordinary vehicles.
Triple Damage-Stand Unknown The vehicle will receive a third of the ordinary damage from collision. This property is available in any 3D-era GTA, but can only be saved in a garage in GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories.
Rare R The model of the vehicle appears only a few times during missions in the game.
Unobtainable U Cannot be obtained legitimately. You can only get it through trainers or Cheat Device (LCS, VCS). Some cannot be obtained without complete modifications of the game.


Vehicle Unique Color Unique Handling Special Abilities

Mission

Notes/How To Acquire The Vehicles Guide

Admiral

No

No

AP

Los Sepulcros/You've Had Your Chips/You've Had Your Chips (EP)

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. (Los Sepulcros)



Get into the car, drive to any safehouse, place a satchel charge onto the Admiral. Kill yourself to fail the mission, then come back to your safehouse. (You've Had Your Chips)(EP)



After destory all machines, kill the driver quickly before the Admiral stop.Destory the Admiral by using a car bomb or another ways.Finish the mission and put the wreck to a garage. (You've Had Your Chips)(AP)

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 AP T-Bone Mendez

Use the blow up all cars Cheat, then push to a garage.(With Cheats)



Use a fireturck to knock the Boxville from the near high place. Drive the Boxville back to a garage avoiding cutscene and destory it by getting in the vehicle while player is on fire or another ways. kill yourself to fail the mission, and go to your garage.(Without Cheats)

Bravura No No AP The Green Sabre Get a paracute, destroy it, enter the vehicle then exit it while the vehicle is on fire, and it will explode, DO NOT WATCH THE CUTSCENE. Wait for Sweet to be killed to fail the mission, then use the Sawn-off Shotgun to shoot it to the garage.
Buffalo No No AP 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. (Misappropriation)



Start the mission and shoot the Buffalo by Miniguns or Sawn-off Shotgun to flip it up-side down before Pulaski get on. Let him run away to fail the mission, or let him die in water to pass the mission without cutscene, then push to a garage. (High Noon)

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 or destroy Jizzy's car then take it to a garage.
Elegant Black, Custom "SUNRA 93" plate No None Management Issues Instead of driving to the awards show, take the car to a garage instead.
Elegy Pink 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 AP T-Bone Mendez (AP)/Toreno's Last Flight (conventional model)

Start the mission and use Rocket Launcher or Heat-Seeking Rocket Launcher  to shoot the FCR-900 to fail the mission, then use the Sawn-off Shotgun to shoot it to the garage.(T-Bone Mendez)



Store it after the mission in the garage. (Toreno's Last Flight)

Feltzer No No AP 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 AP End of the Line Drive the Feltzer to the bomb shop, (Do not lose the fire truck) when Sweet gets on the hood of the Feltzer, arm the bomb then dive out. Sprint to the firetruck, drive it to any garage, Get a paracute to destroy it, kill yourself to fail the mission, and go to your garage.
Forklift No No BP Robbing Uncle Sam Kill Ryder to fail the mission, then store into a garage.
Fortune Pink No BP, FP, EP Wu Zi Mu Start the mission, as soon as the race begins, swing to the right and force the 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 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 Palomino Creek.
Glendale No No AP 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 Pink No AP Drive-Thru (FP)/House Party (BP, FP)/End of the Line (AP)/Reuniting the Families (Pink) 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)

Pink Greenwood drives behind Tanker in cut-scene where Sweet's blue Greenwood fall down on Tanker Trailer and explode. It may be obtained with Pink Traffic Cheat or painted in Mod Garage. (Reuniting the Families)

Huntley Black Heavy No Jizzy Get sniper before mission. When Huntley appear, overtake it and kill driver and passenger. DO NOT hit it or driver will speed up and you won't get it. When you kill him, get into car and wait to fail mission. Then save it in garage.
HPV-1000 No No AP Small Town Bank/Quarry Mission 7/Reuniting the Families

Kill Catalina after the cutscene when two police bikers appear in front of them, then store it to the garage.(Small Town Bank)



After escape from Jefferson Motel, don't shoot the police.Maybe your car will be desroryed when the second policeman jump in your car. His HPV-1000 is AP. Drive it back to the garage. (Reuniting the Families)

Infernus No No AP 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, U Up, Up and Away Disappears when saved.
LSPD Police No No FP, EP, DP Reuniting the Families /Reuniting the Families (EP)

After escape from Jefferson Motel, let the police destory your car. The Police Car chasing you is EP. Drive it back to the garage. (Reuniting the Families)(EP)



After escape from Jefferson Motel, shoot your car to fail the mission before the copbike cutscene. During it, you will find a Police Car run into the alley behind the Recycling Center. Run back to there and find this Police Car. Drive it back to the garage. (Reuniting the Families)(FP, EP, DP)



See video here:



Majestic No No FP High Stakes, Low Rider Same with the Savanna method.
Maverick Black No AP

Toreno's Last Flight/Misappropriation/The Da Nang Thang/Interdiction (black)

Use another Maverick to fly to the high roof near it. Use the Sawn-off Shotgun to shoot it until it fells to the groud but avoid notice Toreno. Fly it back to garage and destory it by getting in the vehicle while player is on fire or another ways. kill yourself to fail the mission, and go to your garage. (Toreno's Last Flight)



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.(Misapporpriation)



See video here . (The Da Nang Thang)



Drive a Dozer to the location. Destory all black Mavericks,  then push to a garage and finish the mission. (Interdiction)(black)

Merit No No AP 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 AP Are You Going to San Fierro? (EP)/Black Project (AP)/Riot

Kill The Truth and save car in the garage. (Are You Going to San Fierro?)



See also: Black Project: Steal The Mothership

Mule

No

No

EP

Robbing Uncle Sam

Pass the mission, then store it to the garage.

Manana Maroon Red No None Ran Fa Li Drive it to garage, then destroy it to fail mission then keep it in garage.

Newsvan

Vanilla Cream No AP 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 AP Cop Wheels/Just Business (AP)

Get a Towtruck then follow the Packer till you fail the mission. Then tow it to the hangar garage. (Cop Wheels)



After run away from Atrium, use the Armor, health, and money Cheats in the first cutscene or the second cutscene to fail the mission. Just store it to the impound garage . (Just Business)(AP)

Patriot No No BP, FP, EP, MeleeProof 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 AP 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 U Catalyst Disappears when saved.
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. Normal Ponys do not come in dark teal color, can not be modified, and only rarely spawn with sound systems in normal traffic.
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 When you get the rancher drive to where the first check point is but do not enter it. Do not enter the checkpoint and instead drive to the Los Santos Flood Canals (driving on the highway and keeping distance between the chasers will cause them to give up). Then back the Rancher to the end of the canal system so that the rear wheels are hanging off th edge of the canal system in water. At this point Exit the vehicle So you will fail the mission. Get back in the Rancher and store it in the gradge. This vehicle can be made bullet proof with a "glitch" involving the car invicibilty cheat.
Remington No No FP High Stakes, Low Rider Same with the Savanna method.
Rumpo No No Crashproof, FP Outrider Kill the driver to fail the mission, then store it to the garage.
Sabre No No AP The Green Sabre/Tanker Commander/Wu Zi Mu (FP)

Kill Catalina to fail the mission, then store it using the tow truck to the garage. (Tanker Commander)



The vehicles will replenish health once damaged to the point of smoke display. (The Green Sabre)



Same with the Fortune Method. (Wu Zi Mu)

Sadler No No AP 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 AP Wrong Side of the Tracks/Badlands/Big Smoke's Cash /Kickstart (unobtainable)/End of the Line (FP, EP)

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)



Let the snitch run away and drive the Sanchez in front of the house into the water before the misson failed, the store it to the garage. (Badlands)



Go closely but don't be noticed, use the blow up all cars Cheat, then push to a garage.(Big Smoke's Cash)



After CJ and Sweet change the seat and let CJ to shoot, use the Armor, health, and money Cheats in the first cutscene to fail the mission. Just store it to the garage. (End of the Line)(FP, EP)

Savanna No No AP Photo Opportunity /High Stakes, Low Rider(BP/FP/EP)

Drive to set a car bomb and detonate before get in the roof, let it bomb when taking photos. Don't take any photo to fail the misson, then push to a garage.(Photo Opportunity)



Pass or fail the mission, then push it to the nearest garage.(High Stakes, Low Rider)(BP/FP/EP)

Securicar Caligula's Paintjob No U Breaking the Bank at Caligula's Cutscene only.
Sentinel No No AP The Green Sabre (AP)/Saint Mark's Bistro (AP)/Intensive Care (AP) /Mountain Cloud Boys (mission)(AP)

The vehicles will replenish health once damaged to the point of smoke display.(The Green Sabre)



Use the blow up all cars Cheat in the cutscene, then push to a garage.(Saint Mark's Bistro)



Fetch a ride and go to the hospital, then chase down the original ambulance, after you have the ambulance, wait for the backup to arrive, there will be 2 AP Sentinels, you can force the driver out by shooting him at the head with a gun, once he's out, immediately go inside the car (note : after you go inside the car do not bail out unless the car is in the garage because the car will  be locked and you'll have no other options left than pushing your car to the garage or restart the mission) and drive to any garage, if you want you can also lure the other Sentinel to follow you, so that you'll have 2 AP Sentinels in your garage (Intensive Care).



Kill all the Da Nangs except for one, destory the AP Sentinel with Parachute, kill Woozie to fail the mission, then use the Sawn-off Shotgun to shoot it to the garage. (Mountian Cloud Boys)

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) If you don't want to get green Pizzaboy, just use one limo to get Jizzy (after he ran away from club) and save it in garage after mission. (Ice Cold Killa)
Sultan No No FP, BP, AP Farewell, My Love.../Just Business(AP)(BP)

Same with the Elegy method. (Farewell, My Love...)



After run away from Atrium, use the Armor, health, and money Cheats in the first cutscene(AP) or the second cutscene(BP) to fail the mission. Just store it to the garage. (Just Business)

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 AP 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 AP Tanker Commander Get a truck then drive to the gas station, DO NOT ENTER THE MARKER: Kill Catalina to fail the mission, then store it.
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 AP Cut Throat Business Same with the Newsvan Method. (Except that you can drive it to the garage.)
Walton Plain White No AP Don Peyote/Madd Dogg (plain white).

Unobtainable. (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)



Same with the Elegy method. (FP)

Any Vehicle No No BP, EP, FP

Anytime (BP/EP)/Gray Imports (FP/EP)

While not in a vehicle enter the car invinsibility cheat. Enter the vehicle and then enter the cheat again to deactivate it. Then drive it into any gradge. Exit the vehicle and let the garage save it. Only the BP/EP properties will be obtained. (Anytime)



Enter the marker, then your car will be FP/EP, (Do not complete the whole mission otherwise it is not FP/EP) then take your car to any garage, then complete the whole mission with your other car. (Gray Imports)



See video here:



How_to_make_any_vehicle_Fireproof_&_Explosion-proof,_during_the_mission_Gray_Imports_-_GTA

How to make any vehicle Fireproof & Explosion-proof, during the mission Gray Imports - GTA

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