1973 MGB-GT. I called it my $100 wonder. Every time I pulled out of the garage something broke and it cost me $100.
My worst car, and my best car, is my convertible. I've had it for 15 years, so you gotta expect some bad times...
My 2 worst cars were a 73 MG midget, it spent more time in the shop than in my garage, the only saving grace to the car was that my ex- wanted it in the divorce, the girl didnt have the sense to come in out of the rain, but it made her happy. The other was a 75 Jaguar XJ-6 Coupe, while it was very cool to drive, the Lucas portion(which is alot) sucked, the wiring was antiquated, the carbs where built by Stonehedge industries, and the brakes, well most mechanics looked at them and laughed. Maybe England had a masterplan to get back at us for thowing their ass's out of the states
Re: Re: what was your worst car ? At least you could tell people that you drive a vette. My worst car was my first Super Sport, ever see Cheech and Chongs Up in Smoke? MUFDIVR
My "bride" had ordered a new, 1975 Dodge van... :eek2: and being a newly wed I went along with it. What a total POS!!! Hard starting, leaked water through most door/window seals when it rained! The following January we attended the new car show and she sat in a 1976 Trans Am for 10 seconds, got out and said "Let's get one." :grin:
Did you know GM only made around 2500 88's with the 5spd. All of the others were Auto. I used to have one myself. My worst car would be an 85 Ford EXP. Need I say more?
I'm gonna be honest and say my Regal was/is the crappiest car I've ever had. #1. Push button "Stereo" worked (but only within 100 feet of the radio station you wanted to listen to IF you could hear it over the PSHHHHH sound in ever speaker). #2. It smelled, not a "spray some air cleaner and get rid of it" kind of smell, a real, real smell. Even after a year of driving it every day and cleaning it out, it still smelled. #3. Rust, although this isn't the actual car as much as it is the person who took care of it last but damn, this thing had enough of it. No passenger side floor to speak of, come to think it, no trunk either, don't put any small items in there as you'll lose them on the first corner. #4. I'm sure the 231 was a strong motor..when new.. but this thing was evil, it would sputter, cough, black smoke, white smoke, not start in cold weather, well, anything under 50 degrees. #5. It has tried to kill me on more than one occasion. Stalling on a hill while turning in front of a bus not one time, but 3 times. Did I mention how fun it is to find out that you don't have rear brakes on a rainy day? Almost took out a phone pole that time. #6. Gas guage worked, yea, really, it did. At least for the first week. No money is at the root of all un-fixable problems. #7. Valve cover gasket leaked, badly, dripping oil onto the hot exhaust manifold on any trip over 3 minutes. I would have replaced it if it weren't buried under a/c lines, heater box and misc computer crap lines. #8. A/c? Sure it was hooked up, sure it spun but did it work? Nope. My a/c was 255 air conditioning, 2 windows down doing 55. #9. God help me if it rains, before I got into it and finally fixed it, the rain would somehow get into the air ducting where it would collect, not just a little drips, cups and cups full at which point, the next time you went around a corner, the passenger would have half a gallon of water spray all over their feet, if you were driving, you only got a cup or so. This is most likely the reason for #3 as well. #10. It overheated, badly. Enough to warrant the 255 air conditioning with the heater on full blast. Some good things? When it ran, it ran pretty well. I still like the body style (I guess I'm a sucker for g-bodies) and I topped out that speedo more than enough times and it was comfortable enough to have a friend fall asleep at 80mph with the window open. The glovebox always worked perfectly though. :laugh:
72 Dodge Charger. The SE version with nothing. 318 withthe bushing missing from the t rans shifter. So I have to chose 1st or park. I chose 1st. Ran great but it was a rust bucket. Shackles through the trunk, front carriage about to rust off. Just one rusty piece of crap. Ran good though. I was dumb and it was my first car. Cost $500. I bought it in the dark and just saw big ass tires and Dodge on the hood. It was a rust orange with white interior. Didn't even get the 30 day tag off the sucker. My grandma drove it [she bought it as a grad prez] hit a curb and the rusty front end fell apart. But hey. It was a Charger.
1982 Audi 5000...great looking car...piece of s*&t heater...and THIS was my WINTER beater.......The worst part was, the coldest day came and that thing was just plain DEAD!!!!
1976 Olds Delta 88. No heat, defrost, or wipers in the New England winter. How come all my friends wanted me to always pick them up?? Oh ya, the 8 track worked and it did rubber to keep us warm.
the worst one is my beater eater i have now. a 93 s10 with the valves burnt to bad to fix it. 4.3 motor. runs and drives yet and i go in the woods with it and bang it into just about every tree i can and it just keeps coming out with the wood yet. it spits and pop's and crunches and jumps and everything else you can think of. i guess it saw to many ditched when my daughter started driving and to many trees now.
'81 VW Rabbit. In-line water heater, battery blanket & block heater. Thing still wouldn't start on a cold day!
1968 LeSabre Custom 4 dr post 350 2v Purchased from Friendly Motors in Reno NV. I wrecked my 67 Delmont 425 in a Mammoth Lake snowfall so wife sent me to this "tote the note" place to get a car with $200 down and no credit. The guy pointed to the back lot and said that was all he had. Power steering went out 2 blocks from the dealership and she was hitting on 5 or 6 cyl. Lost my tools in the wreck, and was so broke, we had to drive that slug like it was for almost 2 years. God, I hated that car! Still do. Paid $40 every 2 weeks for 30 months. I gave it to my brother when we, finally, got going. He is still mad about that.
90 Jeep Wrangler. I had it two years and it went through, 3 clutch solenoids, 3 sets of brakes, and 7 starters. The 4WD wouldn't work when I traded it in, and the horn didn't work. I had it in the shop almost as much as I drove it, it seemed like. There was a design flaw in the starter system and it used a $300 starter. I'm just lucky I bought it new and had a warranty for all of this stuff. The dealership gave me some "song-and-dance" about the starter wasn't considered part of the drivetrain, since it was "bolted" to the motor. I came back with "is that starter between that bumper, and that bumper? If so, then fix it under the bumper-to-bumper warranty". Luckily, I traded that POS in for a 92 Sunbird with a 3.1 liter motor, that had been sitting on the lot for almost a year. It was brand new, and had something like 11 miles on it. It was loaded and with my parent's GM discount, I got it for around $9500, and drove it until it had 165,000 miles on it. I gave to to my nephew last year and he put $300 into it and it runs like new. It doesn't use a drop of oil and the only thing wrong with it, is a small water leak around the windshield that needs fixed. He's going away to college in the next couple of weeks and freshmen can't have cars, so it looks like it might sit for another year, and only be driven when he comes home to visit.
By far, I bought a new vw golf tdi (turbo diesel). Overengineered piece of crap. Great suspension, and handling. five times it left me stranded, and needed towing. One electronic module after another, and mini computers that malfunction. Things you cant fix on the side of the road. I could go on for hours. mass airflow sensor (not covered under warrenty) 400 dollars. a security module that would not allow the car to start. 300 dollars, and 500 dollars for troubleshooting at the dealer for 3 days. It makes me sick just to think about it. It was my first foreign car. Got rid of it, and got a toyota. so far so good. :TU:
Ironically enought the worst two cars I have ever owned were both buicks, they were also inherited from my father. My father used to drive around in a 1967 Skylark, when it died he bought a 1978 buick skyhawk. Both cars had been dead in our backyard for several years before I got them. I started working on the skylark when I was 15. An older friend of mine worked at a junkyard by shea stadium and helped me ressurect that car with a new trans, carb, and a lot of elbow grease. When my folks were at work we used to steal plates off cars in the neighborhood and take the skylark for joy rides (I was pretty stupid and enthuastic as a young gearhead). Anyway 1 month before I was set to get my license The car, which I should mention was used as a daily driver since new till 1984-85 and had well over 120K on the clock and some serious rust issues as any car that spent years in NY road salted winter roads would, cracked in half in my driveway. Apparently the frame had rotted completely through at the front driver's side body mount and just decided to give way when I was pulling it into the steeply uphill angled driveway after joyriding the car. the whole car just crashed down on the driver's side and refused to budge My folks were not thrilled to see the car bottomed out half in the drive and half in the street totally blocking the sidewalk. The car was immediatly junked. Not to be without a car when the day I would be annointed with a drivers license finally came I began ressurecting the 1978 skyhawk. I managed to get that heap running maginally well, but it quickly disentigerated into nothing within 3 months. After that I I bought a 1967 chevelle SS which was totalled by a drunk driver while parked on the street 8 months later (while it was uninsured). As you can see I have great luck with cars. MY third worst car is also a buick, it is the 1967 buick GS340 I own now, A car I bought out of sentimantality for my first buick, an outright love for the 1967 A body body style, and to save from the crusher in the junkyard where I found it. It is my 3rd worst car because It casues me to constantly delude myself that I will one day have both the funds and the time to ressurect it into the bracket racer I have always lusted after. Surprisingly it is also one of my favorite cars that I have ever owned for exactly that same reason. It is the car in my avitar.
