The worst car I've ever owned, that's easy enough try a 1980 Model Chevy Chevette!o No: o No: o No: o No:
My first new car was a 1970 AMC Gremlin. Just introduced, with straight six and white paint with red stripe. Dumbass me thought it was soooo cool. In four years, the car virtually disintegrated. A couple of years ago, I saw a picture of a 1970 Gremlin on the front page of the Wall Street Journal as the worst American car ever made. Well, at least I can say that my taste has improved....
Well I hate to say it but the absolute worst bottom of the barrel car I ever owned was a 1979 Buick Skyhawk. God I hated that car it couldnt run for more than 3 days in a row , it went thru a set of brake pads in a week, blew the motor & the fuel pump, one of the rims cracked , it couldnt hold a front end alignment . This car was so bad that I finally dropped the plate & insurance stuck it in my Dads garage , revived the junker that the car dealer wouldnt take in trade for the POS (Thank God) and drove that car until I got the balance on the payments on the Buick low enough that I could sell it off. The new owner drove it about 6 months .. couldnt stand it any more , her brother took it he kept it about 6 months and finally got so mad at it he JUNKED it . Dan
Race Wagon 89' Eagle Medallion WAGON Owned the car for about 2 months, back in high school. I bought it for $200 from a guy moving out of town, yeah I should have known. Anyway, this thing had a blown head gasket from day 2 that I started owning it. We called it the race wagon because it had no muffler, so it sounded like a ricer, and it smoked like hell everywhere you'd go. during lunch, I'd pile about 6 guys in this thing, and we would go hunt for ricers to mess with. The car never won a single race, but it sure whipped shittys like it designed for that. Anyway, I sold it for $500 with some "slight patch work". :beer to capitalism HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Anyway, by far the worst car I ever owned.
A used '87 Toyota Tercel. Solid little car, and ran great for about a year... but then the variable venturi carb started having problems. Between the carb and the 12 miles of vacuum hoses, nothing I did could even make it idle.
Adam, my worst car was a 1987 Nissan Sentra XE. Put about 70k on the thing in 2 yrs. Also has to put 4 clutches and 3 four wheel alignments on the damn POS!! This was the car the X thought was pretty. Once again, let the big head do the thinking and the little head do the XXXXing!:Brow: ou:
I have to amend my previous post. My worst car was a '72 Datsun 240Z. Had absolutely NO floor board. Literally! The only thing that resembled a floor board were the two rails that ran across the car that the seat bolted to. got a little liquored up in Fla one night, came around a corner a little fast and ran down a stop sign. All I saw was a floor board attached to a pole laying on the ground. So I opened the hatch, took the stop sogn, pole and all, and threw it into the back of the POS. The only problem was that I threw it pole firsts right through the front windshield. My gosh, did John and I laugh at that the next day. Still managed to rivet the stop sign into the floor board and never fixed the windshield:Brow:
My worst was a 79 Pontiac Gran Prix. The car wasn't too bad but when the automatic trans lost reverse you needed to be careful how you parked it. The car was a bitch pushing it uphill to get out of a parking space, not to mention how embarassing it was. The car finally died when the crank broke just behind the harmonic balancer, I was relieved. Duane
easy... 1990 Ford Taurus SHO. Every part of the car that wasn't Yamaha (so, that's everything but the engine) failed in a very short period of time. Oh, and the electronics were hit and miss. It ran when it felt like it.
This is a tough one-it is a tie between my first car-a 1940 Plymouth and a 1963 Corvair Spyder turbo.Got the Plymouth a year before I could get a driver's license.Cost 75 bucks-worth every penny,but not worth a penny more.Brakes were all seized-had to tow it home with an oil truck-all four tires squealing.Had a '48 square crank Dodge motor,straight-thru muffler and custom rocket-cone tailights.A real beauty!Car went into vapour-lock after about 10 miles and then I would install a 48 ounce tomato juice can with a fitting directly to the carb to get home.Wonder I wasn't burned alive.On the plus side it would hold 13 people in the back seat and would do 100mph(but not both at the same time).I love Corvairs but this one had seen better days.I put a bigger carb on it and wrapped the exhaust pipes in asbestos and waterglass for greater boost.The motor had so much blowby that you could run at least 30 pounds boost and not blow it up.Would outrun 289 4barrel Mustangs and the like and on a good size hill (to build heat) it was surprizing what else you could zip by.The transaxle blew up with regularity and the engine leaked oil like a sieve.The good old days! Rod
In 1993, I sold my '71 Skylark convertible because of the amount of work it needed. I purchased a '84 Chevy S-10 Blazer. Man, this thing was soooooo slow it couldn't even get out of it's own way. It left me on the road stranded many times, and just completely stunk! Biggest POS I've owned. I've owned one other non-Buick ('85 CRX) that treated me really good with 35 mpg. Three months later I bought a '72 GS350. In my 15 years of driving, this was my three month dismal period where I did not own a Buick (but I wisened up really fast :grin: )
1964 Saab front wheel drive, 4 speed on the column, 3 cylinder, 3 carbs full belly pan, and did I mention it was a two cycle with oil injection which of course had to be kept full. Drove it to work one day and the guys at the local flour mill, sitting on the loading dock were pointing and laughing at me at the stop sign. Of course it sounded just like a two cycle motorcycle, RING/DING/DING/DING. Dave Berry :gt:
Mine's gotta be the 1979 Ford Pinto wagon that I bought for my wife back in 86. It ate flywheels because the starter bolt hole in the bell housing was wobbled out and the starter would jump around no matter how big of a bolt you put there. 5 starters in 2 months, 2 flywheels, and it would never, ever start when it was cold out unless you left the drop light with a 100 watt bulb laying next to the carb all night. Did I mention leaking and using oil? We never changed the oil in the car because it leaked a quart a day and used almost as much. My wife admitting to trying to blow it up, unsucessfully, for two weeks straight so she would be rid of it. That was my last Ford car .......that was also my first Ford car. I think what bothered her the most was at the time I was driving a very nice 79 Regal :eek2:
Ummm, mid-80's Audi 4d w/diesel engine. Owned it about 3 months. As soon as October came with cooler temps, it wouldn't start anymore, plugged in or not. On a warm weekend, I managed to dump it on a small-time used car dealer, in trade for an 84 Pontiac Fiero, 4cyl, 4spd. That was a fun car to zip around town in, although it would dump a quart of oil from just about any seal you can name...
It's a draw between my '83 Diplomat ex-cop car, which poured fuel from the tank when parked on hills and blew belts off it all the time,and my'79 Z28, whick was an electrical nightmare that finally burned to the ground in the middle of eastern Pennsylvania at 1a.m. on a Sunday morning.:blast:
My 88 accord is pissing me off. Since I bought it in may, it wont start in the rain or if its cold either. Im so sick of fuel injection. People say "Oh fuel injection always starts in the cold..." BULL****!!! Ive been driving my dads "extra" work truck (86 chevy 4x4 pick up) with a carb and it always starts. Ive got to figure the accord out and get rid of it. Or sell it on a warm dry day. ________ Web Shows
hmm.. my carbed 87 honda accord is giving me hell recently. though it starts every morning wet or dry. it misses when its cold. it sometiems idles at 3000 rpm. and now gets about 25 mpg (used to get in the 30's) it also recently had a tune up and adjusted the lifters. (also looking for ideas) and nothing seems to be sticking and there are about 12 miles of vacuum hoses simmilar to truzi's old pos. and i have to take it in for emissions in a few months...... :af: Nate
