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"5o Worst Cars" -- and not a Bick to be found!

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by 2manybuicks, Sep 9, 2007.

  1. 2manybuicks

    2manybuicks Founders Club Member

    Last edited: Sep 9, 2007
  2. pooods

    pooods Well-Known Member

    I never knew they made a 4 cylinder 90hp Camaro! Guess people that owned them didn't let anyone know what was under the hood.
     
  3. Steve Craig

    Steve Craig Gold Level Contributor

    Bricklin made right here in town. That was a while ago, pretty near drained the Provincial coffers from start-up investments & later bail-out aid.A few still around with local collectors. No, they were not a good car.
     
  4. Stage1 Jeff

    Stage1 Jeff Guest

    a 90 hp camaro????? wonder if a grass catcher attachment was offered?

    the aztek, I wondered if barf bags were an option, since they made the owners sick to look at them
     
  5. BadBrad

    BadBrad Got 4-speed?

    I'm flat amazed they could sell a single A$$tek. Some people have all their taste in their mouth.

    I wonder if Pontiac unloaded every one.

    Marco - can you start a Stage 1-Aztec registry so we can track each of these automotive masterpieces?
     
  6. NJBuickRacer

    NJBuickRacer I'd rather be racing...

    Those were an awesome source for budget 4.10 rears for a long time, until the supply dried up in the boneyards. I used to buy the whole rears for $75, cheaper than a set of gears.
     
  7. alec296

    alec296 i need another buick

    also found many 3.73/3.42 series gears in similar camaro/firebirds
    :beer
     
  8. 436'd Skylark

    436'd Skylark Sweet Fancy Moses!!!!!

    Yeah I've seen two iron duke F-bodys. both in junkyards... a good source for cheap gears, hell even the 2.8s got 3.42s. too bad they are 7.5/7.625s..

    This is the write up about the 85 yugo. really funny stuff:

    Malcolm Bricklin, he of the Bricklin SV1, wouldn't be satisfied until he had forced every American to walk to work. To that end, in 1985, he began importing the Yugo GV, which turned out to be the Mona Lisa of bad cars. Built in Soviet-bloc Yugoslavia, the Yugo had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint. Interestingly, in a car where "carpet" was listed as a standard feature, the Yugo had a rear-window defroster reportedly to keep your hands warm while you pushed it. The engines went ka-blooey, the electrical system such as it was would sizzle, and things would just fall off. Yugo. Or not.


    keep the hands warm while pushing...:laugh:
     
  9. 2manybuicks

    2manybuicks Founders Club Member

    50 Worst Spelling Mistakes of All Time:

    34) Mis-spelling "buick" in the title of this thread!

    Can someone change that? evidently I can't.

    -- Steve
     
  10. Mister T

    Mister T Just truckin' around

    That statement is an oxymoron, since if you bought one, then you must have found some sort of appeal in the thing.:Do No: :Dou:

    I believe it should be that non owners needed the food regurgitation containing device.:laugh: :laugh:

    I consider the Aztec, and its variants, to be the ugliest vehicle ever set loose upon the North American population.:puzzled:
     
  11. Mister T

    Mister T Just truckin' around

    Bic made some great pens.................and lighters too, aka campfire expansion devices.:grin: :Brow: :Brow:
     
  12. pooods

    pooods Well-Known Member

    Now that you mentioned Firebirds it reminds me of one of those cars a guy drove in high school. It was the 4 cylinder Firebird in a very ugly tan color. He never would brag about his new car to anyone and now I guess I know why. Only 90 hp! Guess I had forgotten that car for a reason.:laugh:
     
  13. GSMuscle

    GSMuscle Well-Known Member

    Actually I liked some of the cars on the list ,,,, most were older ones though.
     
  14. Truzi

    Truzi Perpetual Student

    One of my Aunt's had one... it was sad.
     
  15. Madcat455

    Madcat455 Need..more... AMMO!!!

    I remember seeing my first one in '92.... Worked at Valvoline instant oil change... popped the hood, and couldn't believe what I was looking at. Actually called the manager and asked "This can't be right, is that the right engine for this???" Another Co-worker said the first time he saw one, he thought it was a Joke....

    Should've seen the owners face sitting there hearing it all....LOL. :eek: :eek:

    The Iron Duke wasn't a motor to laugh at though... I couldn't kill the one in the Pontiac 6000.... Even ran it out of oil, till it seized... put in more, let it cool... and off it went, like normal.:shock:
     
  16. Dale

    Dale Sweepspear

    Was the author traumatized as a child by one of these?
    Geez, take a pill.
    No worse than most from that era.

    "The glamorous Imperial marque was, by the late '60s, reduced to a trashy, pseudo-luxury harlot walking the streets for its pimp, the Chrysler Corporation. By 1971, only the Imperial LeBaron was left and it shared the monstrous slab-sided "fuselage" styling of corporate siblings like the Chrysler New Yorker and the Dodge Monaco. Appearing to have been hewn from solid blocks of mediocrity, the Imperial LeBaron two-door is memorable for having some of the longest fenders in history. It was powered by Chrysler's silly-big 440-cu.-in. V8 and measured over 19 ft. long. The interior looked like a third-world casino. Here we are approaching the nadir of American car building obese, under-engineered, horribly ugly. Or, it would be the nadir, except for the abysmal 1980 Chrysler Imperial, which had an engine cursed by God. The Imperial name was finally overthrown in 1983."
     

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  17. 71GSX455-4SPD

    71GSX455-4SPD Nick Serwo Magic Car

    I didn't see the Avanti on the list. Everytime I see one at a car show I think one thing- fugly.
     
  18. Carl Rychlik

    Carl Rychlik Let Buick Light Your Fire

    I agree with you on that one,Ken. Another car that reminds me of the Avanti is the later model Matador X's. Another ugly car for sure.
     
  19. Truzi

    Truzi Perpetual Student

    If you read enough of the little stories on that NYT site, you get the impression the writer doesn't really know much about cars.

    While I might agree that some of those cars deserve to be on the list, I rarely agree with the reasons. Bad general choices by a company don't count if they don't apply to the car in question.
     
  20. The guys writing does have a style that appeals to my warped sense of humor. But he sounds like someone we should worry about. Hes one of those people who feels that anything thats V8 powered or doesnt get 20-30 miles per gallon should be ritualistically burned at the stake. Im seeing more and more of this and I have a feeling that eventually they are going to set their sights on the old car hobby. Face it 2 of my 3 Buicks have engines in them over 400 cubic inches....not exactly fuel efficient. For every one Chevy Vega you see at a cruise , there are 30 Corvettes and Camaros .... and they are all V8 powered.... sometimes even the Vega. I see a strom brewing on the horizon.


    Dan
     

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