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Subject: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 01 Feb 05 - 09:50 PM Everybody's having fun over at the "Favorite Car" thread goin' on about all the cool cars they had, wish they had, or just missed having. Well, the lemons are demanding equal time! What about Chevy Vegas, Ford Pintos, AMC Gremlins? The worst car I ever owned was a 1961 Dodge Seneca with a slant six and three-on-a-tree. My '66 Dodge van had recently died, I didn't yet have the money to buy anything decent, and some old guy had this thing in his garage for $200. So, I bought it and brought it home to show my then-wife who took a walk around it, kicked a tire and said, "You're joking! Right?" We christened it "The Gritmobile" and drove it for a few months until we could afford a real car. My, but it was an ugly damned thing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: beardedbruce Date: 01 Feb 05 - 09:54 PM Well, I also have a '77 Mercury Comet ( like the Ford Maverick, but heavier. Straight six, bench seat... but it has only 47K miles. AMC gremlins are FUN- I had several, with both the straight six and with the V8. The Pacer, on the other hand... very odd to drive. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Peace Date: 01 Feb 05 - 09:58 PM That Dodge Seneca gives new meaning to the word 'ugly'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Gypsy Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:00 PM Nah, the Hummer 2 takes the cake. Specially when driven by a highheeled woman! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: number 6 Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:00 PM I'll endorse the AMC Pacer as the biggest POS ever. I'll also mention the Corvair here. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Bert Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:00 PM 76 Volvo 242. What a heap of crap. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Bill D Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:02 PM only by 2nd hand stories... I met the guy who bought the first Edsel sold in St. Louis....he was still cussing it a year later! Then I worked for a man bought one of the first Edsels sold in Kansas. He and his grandfather set out to drive to N. Mexico and back. It took 3 engines to get home,(blown pistons from inadequate cooling, I think) and Ford mechanics were cussing! Seems there was no room to work on 'em, and with the built in flaws, they were constantly working on 'em. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: LilyFestre Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:02 PM 1968-1970 Models of the Chevy Nova...the back of them reminds me of being in a coffin..... I like muscle cars but NOT that one!!!!!!!!!!! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: beardedbruce Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:13 PM A co-worker of mine had a Yugo. Worth every dollar it cost- both of them... Actually, for the cost it was not a bad car- too small, way too light, and hard to get parts for- but I could say the same about a friend's Masarati. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:23 PM At a moment of real desperation in my life, with no money, and the need to get a car in order to move out of my house during a first marriage, I bought a Pontiac convertible. Don't remember the year. For someone who deliberated on whether or not they could afford to buy a candy bar, driving a car that got 8 miles to a gallon was the ultimate cruelty. After I'd had the car a couple of weeks, I started getting sick to my stomach at the rancid smell, so I pulled out the front floor mats. Much to my disgust, there was an interwoven web of sickly white mushrooms covering the floor. They gave off the stench that I imagine rotting flesh would exude, and they looked like it. Ecch!!!! I was blessed when the car just collapsed about a month after I bought it, and I had to junk it. Brrrr.........gives me the creeps even thinking about it. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:29 PM But chances are a Maserati never got blown off of the Mackinac Bridge. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Sorcha Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:31 PM Parents had a Nash Rambler wagon with the push button transimission. Gods, I hated it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Bobert Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:39 PM Any Pig-rot (Peagout, probably mis-spelled, like who cares), pick yer year of model... Junk right off the assembly line.... Vegas. Yeah, don't stick an aluminum nead on a cast iron block. All the early GM furnaces (diesels) were junk. Blow the bottom ends (crankshafts) out in less than 40,00 miles and then once you put a new crank and bearings in them the Rosa Master injection pump would crap out on you. Maximum miles per unit: 50,000... then scrap iron... Back to the French cars. The Borgwarg was a POS... As were the Ford Cortinas's (English Fords). The 1st Ford Falcons were junk. You had to adjust then valves every day to keep them runnin'... But, hark, I LOVE'D THE FORD PINTO's... Yep, them cars would take a beatin'... I also liked the "Unsafe At Any Speed" Corvair and owned a couple of them, too. But back to the junk: the mid 70's Ford Fairmonts... Most of them fell apart before making it to the nd of the essembly line... Not to mention: Citreons: junk Alfa Romeos: junk Chevy Citations: junk plus K-cars: junk plus plus... ...and the worst car ever made.... the No-go, opps, the Yugo. It was such junk that 10 years leater the United States bombed the heck out of the country that made 'um... Now that brings new meaning to the term "junk".... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: beardedbruce Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:42 PM Sorcha, But the seat ( should have ) folded down. Lots of fun! The only push button I had to deal with was a 63 Chrysler... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: number 6 Date: 01 Feb 05 - 10:53 PM Bobert .... Corvairs, either people hate them or luv em. Pintos ... your correct, the could taske a beating. Had a '74 and I did actually like it. Vegas .... now there is a winner ! I think the GM Sunfires are the new versions of the Vegas ..... GM is actually giving them away. Drive them for 4 year and throw them out. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Bobert Date: 01 Feb 05 - 11:04 PM You'd love this one Number 6, I owned a '66 140 Corsa up until about 3 years ago when I finally sold it on Ebay... I loved the car but never drove it much but I'l guarentee you one thing.... ....when the folks who bought it came from Ohio to drive it home, I'm sure that they were perplexed by the "Nadar for Pres" sticker on the rear bumper. (Ya either get this, or don't...) Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Feb 05 - 11:10 PM I make a point of liking my cars. They perform better when you do. They've all been great. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: artbrooks Date: 01 Feb 05 - 11:10 PM I had a '70 AMC Hornet...the Gremlin's big brother (the basic difference was that it had a real back seat). The window wiper motor went out going over Donner Pass in January. Great fun...driving with the window open in a blizzard, operating the wipers by hand. When I traded it in (on a '74 Toyota Corolla) the only operating door was the right rear. I climbed over the seat to get out, slammed the door, the window fell out, and I walked away without ever looking back. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: number 6 Date: 01 Feb 05 - 11:18 PM Bobert ..... "Nadar for Pres" bumper sticker on the Corsa. Absolutely Priceless !! sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Kaleea Date: 01 Feb 05 - 11:51 PM Hey, I had a 1975 Vega once. It was a terrific little car till my younger brother totalled it a couple of days before I was going to sell it for $2,000.00 cash money. I gotta go with Art. Many moons ago when I cas crappily harried ooops I mean happily married, my ex picked out a used Hornet. Green. Shouldda been lemon yellow. I told him I had a bad feeling about it. He shouldda listened to his little wifey who was weaned in an auto salvage. I don't think it lasted 6 months before the engine blew. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Shanghaiceltic Date: 02 Feb 05 - 02:23 AM Fiat Panda I once bought for my ex-wife, maybe that is why she divorced me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: GUEST,Bee-dubya-ell Date: 02 Feb 05 - 02:49 PM 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. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: LilyFestre Date: 02 Feb 05 - 02:51 PM My very first car was given to me by my mother's fiance for my 17th birthday in 1985 (before everybody thinks this is a wonderful thing, it came with a contract and I was obligated to do things that just never should have been). It was a 1974 Ford Grand Torino Station Wagon....burnt orange. It wasn't a car, it was a boat....and a very UGLY boat at that!!!!!!!! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: kendall Date: 02 Feb 05 - 02:57 PM A 1992 Hyundai Elantra. Couldn't control the idle speed of the engine. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Mingulay Date: 02 Feb 05 - 03:03 PM Worst car ever a 1970 something Chrysler (UK) 180. Absolute shit. No go, no stop. You could hear it rusting. Lada's take some beating, but not very much. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: gnu Date: 02 Feb 05 - 03:04 PM Cars : Best - 1974 Bug. Couldn't kill it with a stick. Worst - 1974 LeMans. Couldn't make it go with a stick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 02 Feb 05 - 03:06 PM Don't buy Rovers, the floor will fall of them in a couple of years...don't buy Citreons, the transmission and ignition will go all screwed...Don't buy Peugots...just don't. That's my advice... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 02 Feb 05 - 03:14 PM 1975 Ford Maverick. The car spent more time in the shop than on the road. I do have some fond memories of the car as it was my vehicle during college. My mother still has her 1962 Ford Falcon. She doesn't drive it much, but it is still nice to look at! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 02 Feb 05 - 03:25 PM Anything with those modern electronics and chips messing it up. The kinds of stuff that means you can't have a push start, and you have to pay out enormous sums to get a new key. Leave those things for computers where they are handy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: frogprince Date: 02 Feb 05 - 03:28 PM For pure esthetic wonder, nothing can beat the tail of a 1960 Edsel: two Mercury tailight lenses stood on end on each side, the ends sticking up past the Ford fin shape; then two tin ridges added to cover the misfit. An absolutley incomprehensible styling decision. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: *Laura* Date: 02 Feb 05 - 03:34 PM the one that looks least like a (old style) mini |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: gnu Date: 02 Feb 05 - 03:40 PM Chips !!! And all that fancy crap !!! I had an F150 with a straight six. You could work on it in the rain without getting wet because you could get in and close the hood while working on the engine. Nowadays my tool kit will just barely fit... in the credit card swiper ! If I park with the grill downhill, a vacuum in the gas tank triggers the "check engine" light and it won't go off until it is told to do so by a technician with a hand held diagnostic unit... at forty bucks a crack ! (All he did was take the gas cap off and put it back on. I refused pay. They are peeved.) I disconnected the f***ing light. Same for the ABS brake light. Funny that all of these lights started coming on after the warranty was up. Pre-programmed perhaps ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 02 Feb 05 - 03:53 PM My choice for worst ever British car, the Vauxhall Victor 101 fom the early 1960s. The body panels were so thin you could read a newspaper through them, and the whole thing went from new car to lace curtain in about nine months. I'm not sure whether this was befire or after Vauxhall were bought by General Motors. Maybe someone out there can tell us? Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: gnu Date: 02 Feb 05 - 04:12 PM Exterminate all competition at whatever cost... even when it's cheap. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 02 Feb 05 - 04:37 PM I'd be happy wihout the competition really - I think I'd like it best if there was just one car, which came in a range of sizes. Mini, standard and big, and a pick-up version. All with interchangeable parts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: gnu Date: 02 Feb 05 - 04:39 PM COMMIE !!! hehehehehe |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Richard Bridge Date: 02 Feb 05 - 07:09 PM Farina Magnette. Higher, heavier, narrower-tracked than the ZB Magnette and used more petrol to travel more slowly. Although DT has a point about all the early Victors. Maybe Series 1 Vanguard. Triumph Shitfire 2.2 Tagora Rover 60 - redefined "underpowered". Bond 375 - perhpas the outright winner. Entire motor cycle engine and front wheel (of 3) pivoted to steer. Reverse arrived by turning the front wheel 180 degrees... Even came in an estate car version. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: harpgirl Date: 02 Feb 05 - 08:16 PM This one's easy! I got a brand new (Lemon) Yellow 1973 Ford Pinto station wagon which was purchased in Florida. I got in to drive back to Michigan and it quit on me in Riceville Tennessee where I75 wasn't built yet. I had to stay overnight there and finally got it to the dealership in Ashville. But before that I had one of the TWO worst experiences in my life that night in Riceville Tennessee. And you don't want to meet up with me in a dark alley if you are a hillbilly mechanic that doesn't know that a jumped timing belt can stop a brand new car, but a 23 year old chic on her own in the middle of the night is an easy target...But the next experience was not one of the TWO worst... The pinto's electrical system never worked right and one night it broke down in a blinding snowstorm while my musician boyfriend at the time and I were driving home from Lansing Michigan at 3am after his gig. We were stranded in two feet of snow on the x-pressway and would have frozen to death had we not been able to flag down a bus that was being delivered to southern Michigan. I hated that vehicle and finally got up the courage to trade it in 1976 when it broke down for good. I bought a Datsun honey bee that served me well for several years after that. I think the vehicle was put together in July on a Monday (when the workers were in contract negotiations....It took me until 1999 to trust Ford again. This pinto is a very bad memory... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 03 Feb 05 - 11:14 AM In 1964 I moved to Long Island & had to learn to drive. My boss sold me a decrepit Oldsmobile for $50 to learn on. I called it the Baboon because of its pink rear. Soon the head gaskets started leaking, so badly that when the light turned green I enveloped the car behind me in a cloud of steam (discouraged tailgating). I could just barely make it to work before the radiator boiled; I carried a bicycle in the back seat as a life raft. When I got my license I turned the Baboon in for a new Dodge Dart, which I annoyed the dealer by paying for all at once. Of course, I called it the Fodge. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: If it moves, fondle it, except porcupines, ball lightning, and policemen. :|| |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: kendall Date: 03 Feb 05 - 10:07 PM Jacqui and I rode all over the UK in a Vauxhall Astra? worst beating I ever took without hitting back. It rode like a pogo stick, and a cement park bench would have been a better seat. If I ever ride in another one I'll take a bail of hay to feed my charlie horses. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Feb 05 - 10:50 PM Okay, then. My least favorite car would be the one that ran over my dog, Frisky, when I was about 11 years old. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: PoppaGator Date: 04 Feb 05 - 12:44 AM We had a used Plymouth K-car ~ what a piece of shit. When we were finally able to upgrade to a better/newer/more Japanese vehicle, the K actually broke down for good (terminally) on the way to the dealership, where they were promising $2,000 trade-in for anything. We actually had to have it towed in to be traded in; got the two grand trade allowance anyway, thank God. I think the K was in the crusher before we drove our new used car off the lot. Bad as it was, the K may not have been the very worst of our cars. We've owned a large number of used Datsuns/Nissans, and all but one have been very good. The exception was an F10 wagon, their first front-wheel drive model. It was severely undersized, even for a Japanese compact wagon, and everything about it went wrong at one time or another. I was especially irked because we got it to replace a perfectly good '72 Datsun 510 that would probably have continued to purr along for another 100,00 miles if we had kept it. It was a hard lesson to learn ~ newer is not necessarily better. That 510 model was legendary, and for good reason. Had to use the manual choke (!) to get it started, but once it was rolling, no problem. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: GUEST,Bulls Hit Date: 04 Feb 05 - 03:50 AM Triumph Spitfire (Shitfire) as mentioned above - Driving through Stockport- change down for traffic lights - gear lever pops out of it's socket!!! Triumph Herald - Due to typically shit British design(sic) rear wheel folds under the car ( going into sharp bend a little too hot ) Triumph Dolomite 1500 - engine designed(sic) with a 3 bearing crankshaft - brainless twats! Morris Marina - stub axle snapped! Moronic design of "torsion bar" suspension suspected. I'd better stop now... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: GUEST Date: 04 Feb 05 - 04:34 AM STOP KNOCKING PEUGEOTS I HAVE HAD 3 BETTER THAN MOST YANK HEAPS.THEY ARE NOT GAS GUZZLERS . I GET 60 MPG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Bobert Date: 04 Feb 05 - 08:30 AM Bad news, GUEST... Now ya' gotta drive that Pigrot of yers back up that 60 mile mountin'... Awww, jus' funnin' wid ya since if yer gonna stick by yout story of like a Pigrot, you certainly are funnin' wid us... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Your LEAST Favorite Car Ever... From: Mingulay Date: 04 Feb 05 - 12:20 PM Remarkedly short and to the point for you Bobert!!!!!! Jus' joshin'. |
