by Idahoian
SwiftAero wrote:
With more charity to the question asker, in Step 4: SHOOT, it is written: "You may shoot wrecks. Wrecks are treated as inoperable small cars. If a wreck takes any damage, it is eliminated." With this additional wording outside the Car Status section, it is not unreasonable to assume that an inoperable car, when shot, takes damage.
Except an inoperable car is explicitly not a wreck. No rules ever say that player cars become wrecks, they are either operable, inoperable, or eliminated (removed from the board). I personally like the house rule of player vehicles becoming wrecks if eliminated on the game board, but that's not RAW.