And the second worse car I ever owned was the one I bought just after the 1961 Dodge Seneca "Gritmobile". It was a '72 VW Superbeetle. It wasn't a bad car itself, but the guy who owned it before me had replaced a lot of the original equipment with "high performance" stuff and that's where the problems lay. Oh, I thought it was really cool to have a hotrodded bug when I bought the thing. If I'd only known...

The original wheels had been replaced with these weird two-piece mags that no tire dealership wanted to work with. It once took me two weeks to find someone who would fix a flat. The rear tires had been replaced with tires sufficiently oversized that air shocks were required to keep the fenders from scraping them and the airshocks leaked out three or four times a week. Regular clip-on wheel-weights wouldn't work on the mags so they had to use stick-on weights which some little bolt in the front-end assembly would knock of any time I turned the wheel too hard. So, the front tires were perpetually out-of-balance. The battery wouldn't stay charged worth a damn and after a couple of batteries and alernators we finally discovered that the fancy chrome-plated after-market fan-belt pulley was just a smidgen smaller than the original and that the fan belt was never really as tight as it should have been.

By the time I sold the car I had replaced all that crap with stock parts and the car worked just fine.