Worst vehilces you've ever owned?

July 22, 2005 | self / vanity

[patton]

Never buy a chevy truck, or a ford car.

(my mustang being the exception)

[PzLdr]

1972 Chevy Malibu with a down tuned [EPL] 307 V-8. A rare combination of no power, horrendous gas mileage when tuned [and much worse when it fell out of tune] and really poor assembly [finding a collection of dashboard screws in the ash tray doesn't inspire confidence].

[scott says]

Ford trucks are excellent, Toyota makes very reliable cars...sorry for your bad experience :(

[PzLdr]

1972 Chevy Malibu with a down tuned [EPL] 307 V-8. A rare combination of no power, horrendous gas mileage when tuned [and much worse when it fell out of tune] and really poor assembly [finding a collection of dashboard screws in the ash tray doesn't inspire confidence].

[hinckley buzzard]

1984 Ford Thunderbird. The primitive onboard computer was screwed up, every time you used the power seat adjustor, the clock reset to noon. And the body, which was coated with every kind of weather proofing available, ate itself up with rust in about three years flat. Every tiny nick turned into rust cancer. The dealer service people just laughed. I actually met an inspector one time who worked at the plant where the POS was made and told him about it. He said, "Yeah, we had some bad alloy that year," and shrugged.

[SoDak]

Is that yours? I'm seriously considering buying myself a new GT for my birthday next month. I have it down to a Charger, Mustang, or really dressed out Harley.

[CFC__VRWC]

Ever drive 1000 miles with no brakes?

I had a '74 Ford Torino that I could never get the brakes working properly on. I replaced master cylinders, calipers, brake lines, you name it. You hit the pedal and it just sank to the floor. I had to pump the brakes to make it stop, starting about a half block away from the sign/light. Stopping that car took advance planning. I drove it for three years like that.

The guy I bought it from was a mullet fisherman, and he used to throw his cast nets in the trunk without rinsing them off first. 60's and 70's Fords were rustbuckets under the best of conditions anyway, so the trunk floor and lower fenders were rusted away. I had to use a LOT of bondo and plywood to keep things from falling out the trunk onto the road.

Once the tailpipe rotted off, and as a result exhaust fumes poured into the car through the big gaping rust holes in the trunk floor (did I mention that the carburetion was ummm, less than complete? I think more gas went unburned out the tailpipe than what did burn). I drove that car all the way home from Gainesville, Florida one night, about 150 miles, with all the windows open and my eyes still streaming tears from the gas and exhaust fumes. It's a miracle I didn't asphyxiate. The next day I went to the parts store and bought three feet of that cheap flex pipe and bolted it onto the rotten stump of the tailpipe, and that routed the fumes out and away from the vent holes in the trunk.

[A CA Guy]

Having had my car totalled and neck broken by a drunk driver as a teen and broke, for a time I rode a bent up Puch moped.

[xkaydet65]

A 79 AMC Concord. Bought it used in 83 when our second car died. It leaked, it rusted and I don't know how it lasted three years with us. It got me to work and back but you'd never take it more than ten miles.

My fave? My 93 Saturn SL 2. Just sold it this past March. It had 140K. Replaced the alternator once and nothing else but brakes and belts and hoses for 12 years. And it handled wonderfully with surprising oomph for a 124 HP.

[patton]

Funny story there - I had been looking at Mustang GT's all over the country. But, every dealer wanted a 10K market adjustment - meaning 10k over sticker.

One hot car.

So I was TDY in NM, and I went to the harley dealer - I was having a mid-life crises. "Hey, somebody sell me a bike!"

"I am sorry, sir, we are closed."

"Do say what?"

"Perhaps ... snif... you might be happier at the Ford dealer accross the street."

I looked at the wad of cash in my hand - $20,000 and said, "Yeah, guess you are right. Sorry to have bothered you."

So, anyway, I walked across the street. "What go you want for that 2005 Mustang GT convertable, with the 5-speed transmission?" I asked. Sticker. SOLD!

[RandallFlagg]

1st car....
'76 Fury:

'78 Dodge Coronet:

1978 Lincoln:

'73 Gremlin:

The Mazda I saddled the ex with (he-hee!)
My Chevy Van, "Abominog."
My current vehicle: '95 Jeep

None of these are actual pics of the vehicles I've owned. Just visual representations to prove that I like really ugly cars....

[Dashing Dasher]

Just to say look on the bright side...

This was the BEST car I ever owned.

[RandallFlagg]

You backed into Micky Mouse?!

[Dashing Dasher]

Uummm....no....


Guess again!?

[RandallFlagg]

I'd get banned.

(snicker)

[Dashing Dasher]

You got it!

[RandallFlagg]

I'm not THAT old....yet.

[eleni121]

Ford Expedition: the worst.

The best: Toyota Lexus.

[Dashing Dasher]

Me neither.... ;-)


dd

[RandallFlagg]

Perhaps if I show that pic to my Wife, she'll get ideas.....

(thinks again)

Then again, maybe not.