While thinking of the Top Five vehicles I've ever owned it made me think of the worst vehicle I've ever owned.

I had a '63 Corvair Van. It was painted bright orange with "Keep on Truckin'" painted on the front. It looked pretty kool, and the gals loved the interior, but the air-cooled engine was always going kaput, and I could'nt work on that engine. It constantly locked up and always when I needed the thing the most. I was a young swabbie in San Diego and it was the only transportation I had. That was my worst vehicle. What was yours?

My worst ride?

Would be a toss up between a 74 Vega and a 75 VW Bug

A green Maverick----the worst color green you have ever seen----my body just went cold thinkin abt it--lol---Pete NYC

70- Volkswagen Beetle Automatic (Owned this jewel only by marriage, once mechanical repair work started it never finished)

80 Toyota "Turd"cel (never delivered promised gas mileage, Pinnicle of Japanese qaulity and SPC- My coworker owned one with 30K miles more than me and every problem he had I had 30K miles later)

Hmmmmm... it's a toss up between the 1971 Pinto and the 1973 Pinto wagon. Both came standard with the exploding gas tank.

:mrgreen:

1975 Jeep CJ5......cant even begin, i already feel my blood pressure rising

1991 Plymouth Voyager. What an absolute piece of junk. 2 transmissions,
One at 43K and a second at 65K.

Of all things, a 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.

Bought used with 4500 miles and (thankfully) got extended warranty. By the time it got to 80K 2 years later it had it's 3rd transmission, 2nd engine, 2nd heater core, 2nd A/C evaporator, and a whole host of minor failures too numerous to list. Every other week it was headed to the shop for something, all too often on the back of a wrecker.

Either it was jinxed or it couldn't survive my driving style :wink: . Traded it in just before the extended coverage ran out.

2 piece of $#1+ Fords...years and models slip my mind due to amnesia (wife hit me in the head for buying them)

Worst Vehicle I ever owned? Gotta be the 1987 Dodge Dakota... Constant computer brain issues which the dealership nor any other repair shops could do much with...

Mine was a 79 Ford Bronco..........I called it the money pit. It broke down every 5 minutes even if no one was driving it..... :evil:

My worst vehicle by far has to be my old '86 Olds Cutlass Ceira (the fwd 2.5 POS Cutlass). One proplem after another. It finally died when the torque converter lock-up stayed locked up and wouldn't stay running when put in gear.

my absolute worst was a '74 mustang II with a v6 grenade. It first flew with 43k and the cam gear went and took out the distributer and the oil pump, it also chipped up the gear drive. The next time I lost the war when it threw a rod at 65k. It was a good thing the ride to the boneyard was downhill!!


Jeff

1974 AMC Grimlin
1968 Ford Fairlane Fastback

Never posted before, but I had to put in my 2 cents on this one. I just traded in a '98 Dodge caravan, after $1500 in transmission work. This is the first car I have ever had a real, burning hatred for.

Well, we see what it takes to get members to post...real hatred 8O

Welcome!

A 1986 Mercury Cougar......blew so much oil, people would roll up their windows next to me in traffic. One time a gas station attendant called the fire dept. because he thought it was on fire. What a POS!!!! :mrgreen:

If things don't start going right it's going to be my elCamino! Well, maybe not just yet. This is a hard one because people just don't get rid of good cars(right?), but I would say my 1964 V.W. Bug only because it had a mysterious way of dying at the worst times. And then without reason would start working again as if nothing happened, but not before some aggrevated hair-pulling . :( Or any Chrysler product.

I have to say I loved and hated my worst car. 1989 dorf(ford) broncoII. 1 new transmission,2 new fly wheels, 4 sets of axles, 2 fuel pumps,1 oil pump, 1 top end rebuild,1 brain, 2 sets of front wheel bearings, 1 front end and a million different gaskets every few weeks. as soon as I got an oil leaked fixed a transmission leak started, when I got that fixed a diff started leaking and so forth. But like I said I loved my little turd on wheels. It had a k&n intake, headers, glasspacks, super coil, 6 inch lift, 33inch tires, $3500.00 stero/ video system and as many problems as a high school mid term. I will never put that much money in a vehicle again.

Absolute worst was a 1986 305 Monte Carlo SS...it turned me off forever on any car with a four speed auto, 305 and/or computer. Never had that much trouble with any car since the beginning of my driving experience.

Second worst was a 1979 305 C-10...funny the two worst had the same size motor.

1962 Corvair,I owned it 6 days,spun it out about 20 times.Was hit by a 1966 Caddy sedan DeVille broadside and almost died.Next car was a 1964 Chrysler 300.
Shane 8)

I had a Jeep CJ5 that was always broken and the parts were so expensive! JEEP Just Emptied Every Pocket.

I've had a number of beaters I've driven over the years and to each of them I owe some appreciation or I wouldn't know half as much as I do about fixing cars, although at the time I was ready to drive them all off a cliff. My first car was a 1970 Chevy impala when I was 15 and sadly I had to sell before I actually got to drive it (it is a long story and a sore subject besides...) Next came a 1988 toyota camry which had over 200,000 miles on it but ran great...the starter would slip alot though and it had an annoying habit of making a "whoooooop!" noise which gained me lots of attention. Then came the 1989 plymouth sundance which was crappy to begin with, and which to this day I am convinced had a vendetta against me....the "K" frame broke while driving home from work one night and the dumb thing wrecked me in a field. Then even stranger I bought an 89 Dodge shadow which was an exact replica of the sundance which had just rolled me in the field. The shadow had to be the worst car I've owned....first it didn't have a radio which is a bad, bad thing. The other thing was the rings were all but gone in it and it smoked really bad...people would flag me down at stop lights because smoke was rolling out from under the hood where an exhaust hose wasn't hooked up tight and from under and behind the car and to make matters worse the idle was messed up and it would stall when I stopped unless I put it in neutral and revved it until the light turned green which made some people think I wanted to race or something...they would rev back at me. (not that I was intimidated..me and my big, bad 4 cylinder smoke bomb :) Now I have an 85 Honda civic I use as my winter beater and daily driver until my camino is done and it likes to act up now and then but I guess its okay even though it lacks power steering and its carbureated. If it breaks down I'll drive my motorcycle and if that fails me I will just have to ride my horses to work until the camino is done :) One way or another I'll get by. I'm just hoping the camino behaves itself and doesn't turn out to be a lemon!
:) Mary

i would have to say outta all the cars ive owned, the worst one i had was an '86 T'bird.. it looked beautiful and i put alot of werk and time into the interior, fixing it up and nice wheels and all kinds of goodies, but it never quite ran correctly and i could never figure out what the problem was.. i would fix sumthin and it would run better fer a few weeks, then back to the drawing board again, seemed like i was always chasing sumthin.. lol.

John

My worst car ever is the one I'm currently driving. It's a 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX 2.0 turbo All-wheel drive. Two months after I got it, the timing belt broke, bent 8 valves and broke guides and impaled one piston and chewed up the combustion chamber in cylinder #1, destroying the head. Soon thereafter the harmonic balancer came apart, I've gone through 4 alternators, 1 power steering pump, evaporator core, both rear wheel brake calipers, front ball joints, both front outer half-shafts, both front shocks, the valve cover won't stop leaking oil, transfer case started leaking, clutch master cylinder died and the clutch pedal linkage got twisted out of shape and function one fine day. I'm getting pretty tired of this and I'm gonna turn my '69 Elky into a daily driver and sell this rice burner/moneytree plucker.

:? I have to say a ford truck I bought that cought fire the day I paid for it, I really didn't own it long enough to drive it because I bought it only to trade it for a basket case Harley Sportster! The reason I bought the truck was the guy didn't want to sell the bike, but he would trade it for that exact ford truck which was a 68'short bed 1 owner that my neighbor's dad owned from day 1! "I got the better end of the deal" :P

I'd have to say the worst car i ever owned was a '71 Chrysler Newport this thing used almost more oil than gas and it only got about 8mpg. Talk about a boat this was by far also the biggest car i've ever owned, seemed like it was about 20ft long not to mention the nice turd brown color of it. I can only say one good thing about this car, it did save my life once. I was at an intersection waiting to cross a major highway at a red light. when the light turned green i started to go and the car kinda sputtered and almost died on me and about the time it did that a semi came blowing through the intersection doing bout 70 so i guess if i hadn't sputtered i'd probably been going down the highway on the grill of a semi

camino81

You know. I feel really lucky after reading these posts. :D The worst car I owned was a Ford Galixy/Fairlane. It had a 351 and no brakes. I had it about 4 months.

My Ex (at the time she was my spouse) had brought to the union a 197? AMC grimlin. What a piece. Both door posts were busted loose and the doors rattled, the paint had spider webbed and someone waxed it so it looked like a Spider Web (Red with White cracks). The castle nut on the Pitman Arm Fell off! :cry: It got 10 Mpg (5 comming and 5 going) with a 22 gallon tank and a 6 cyl. Like I said it was a POS. But I didn't own it and didn't buy it but I did get rid of it then later I got rid of her! :D :lol:

Now if the title was the worst "Ride" you ever had I would have to say My Ex was the worst "Ride" I ever had! :lol: :lol: :lol:

The worst car i owned was a 72 chevy vega 4 spd every 50 miles id have to put 2 quarts of oil in just to keep it running because when the oil went low the fuel pump shut off as a safety so the engine wouldnt seize.i guess GM must of new there vegas were oil burners before they sold them.

1st choice would be my 74 chev Vega, service advisor knew me by name when I brought it in for 2nd craked block in under 8,000mi

2nd choice was my 88 Aerostar that began to self destruct at 60,000mi and the great joy of working on it :(

Worst car i have ever owned no brainer... 1992 Toyota Previa. Engineering nightmare!

I also owned a VW Scirocco that gave me a lot of problems.

Have always been told there is two happy days in a mans life ,when he buys his boat and when he sells his boat, lol mine was when I sold that #$%&&&$#@83 HONDA, worst POS ever built , Just had to put in my 2 cents worth thanks. have a good day Slim

I've only owned 6 cars, but I'd have to say the one that's given me the worst headache is one of my current vehicles. It's my wife's 2000 Olds Alero Coupe. It's the 4 banger version which is bad enough in itself. We've had more problems and mishaps with this car than any other car I've owned. Well, I had some mishaps in my first car, 1990 Chvy. Lumina Euro, but not so many in a row.

Within the first 2 weeks of owning the Alero, someone popped a rock up and cracked the windsheild right smack dab in the middle. Then, a few months later, we were driving in MS and hit a deer. That cost us a new frontend, hood and headlights. (I'd never seen a deer go airborn before. Must have banked that sucker 20 feet in the air.) :P Almost a year later, we hit another deer...it hit us rather. I'd seen the deer up the road and slowed down. It moved to the side of the road and, just as we passed by, it bolted towards the car and ran into the front passenger side. I swear this car must be a deer magnet or something.

Now, it just keeps losing air in the tires and, as soon as I fill it up, that's when the "Low Tire Pressure" light comes on...go fig. Also, something is very wrong with the suspension and we've had to replace the factory CD player because of it being faulty. The seat belt in this Alero suck! Don't try to stop to quickly. You might not be able to move once the belt sticks. :mad: On top of that, Olds has gone out of business. So, now I can't get even a fraction of what I paid for it for trade-in.
:x

By far the worst I ever owned was a 72 VW bus. I had my head up the rear of that damd thing so often, I should have had a degree in rearology! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :P Richard,

My car was so bad the company quit the biz. A 1970 Triumph GT6, it was fun to look but they had the sidedraft carbs, special brake fluid, weak trannys and in the summer in S. Fla. it would over heat. There was a good side I learned to fix it all with that lemon.

you ask what is the worst car i have owned is? more like truck 82 chevy 6.2 diesel yuk pos from hell. 3 700r4s 2 engines and stuff what a pos. never again. thats all i got to say =] o ya and 8 starts good thing there had a warrenty at $280 each. o ya one more thing all this in less then 2 years.

The worst car I had was a 67 Ford Cortina, not only was it a Ford, but it was English. Luckless electronics, no wonder the Brits drink warm beer.

By far the FORD Cortina, I had one the doors really fell off doing 50mph down the freeway and that was it's top speed.

i never had any problems with any of my cars besdies my elko, but thats a good thing its 26 damn years old. but for being a graduated high school kid when a svt lightning roamed, 69 dodge coronet 440, dodge stealth r/t twin turbo, 97 z28 camaro, 2 iroc camaros, 2 67 mustangs, and the worse thing that all of them are your friends. And what do i get stuck with? 1987 Chevy Celebrity. No one could look @ that car and say "nice car buddy" but it drove, and had litttle problems but it was a ****ty car to drive in high school.

Then my senior year i drove 93 ford explorer, which never had any problems besides after driving 100 miles my power steering pump finally gave out. But it did have a K&N filter, BBK 66mm throttle body, 9mm sparkplug wires, and a flowmaster, fun car to drive but the elko is way faster :-D

Wow, I must be one lucky son-of-a-gun! I've owned dozens of cars and trucks from bug eyed Sprites to medium duty Chevy trucks and have never had any of the experiences other members had. Another thing to be thankful for this Christmas season.

Far and away the worst vehicle I ever owned was an 82 Shelby Dodge Charger. I bought it brand new and had:
1. New battery
2. New Alternator
3. New Starter
4. Replace shifting linkage 3 times. (They fell off!)
5. Rebuilt transmission 4 times (syncros bad)
6. Engine swallowed a lifter.
7. New gas shocks on hatch.
8. Repaint front air dam twice.
9. Replace all 4 50 series Goodyear racing tires with Dunlopes because of sidewall damage from normal chuck-holes in Illinois.
10. Re-bolt down the front seats (tehy both came loose!)
11. Replace 3 of 4 head lamps.

All within the frist 18,000 miles. When the car was right it would out-corner a Porsche, run like a scalleded assed ape and it looked COOL (silver on royal blue paint). It was ALWAYS in the shop it seemed.

NEVER will I buy another Mopar product!

Glenn

Not necessarily the worst but possibly the poorest excuse for a vehicle is an old ( year ??? ) Datsun model PL411. It was my second wife's when I married her and it was like driving a powerless wash tub. But not as big as a wash tub and can you imagine it was a 4 door sedan. Finally got rid of it and later she got rid of me. Oh well, I do remember the car. Experience is a good teacher.

i have never owned a car yet!!**key word yet** but the worst car i have ever seen in my life was my dads old mustang **year not sure** but i think it was around a 90ish model and ohh that was the worst pos i have ever seen

Hmmmmm....would have to be my first car. A '74 Pinto. I spent every weekend under the hood keeping it running. It became a decent car after I stuffed a .030 over bored 302 and a toploader 4 speed in it. I did the same to an '80 Jazz Wagon with the port hole windows in the side. That was a fun car. Many Mustangs and Camaros went down to that wagon. :)

'87 Plymouth Horizon had to be the worst i've ever owned.After my son was born i needed a vehicle that i felt was safe to transport him in and my '78 Blazer was so rusty that the seatbelts pulled free from yhe rusty achoring points on the floor.I traded it for this Horizon only to realize my mistake too late.The seatbelts jammed so i couldn't even use it for it's intended purpose.It was like a submarine with a screen door when it would rain.In a rainstorm when you would take off from a stopsign or redlight it would dump a quart of water directly on your foot from the heater ducts.I have no idea how it kept from soaking down the fuse box.The rear hatch was so rusty that i tried to open it one day and it seperated inside from out like a clamshell and after i managed to get it to stay closed it would inhale exhaust fumes through the rusty slit in the hatch.I hated that car with a passion! :evil:

1967 427 Corvette.

Suckas!

Just checking to see if you were awake. :lol:

Hmmmmm....would have to be my first car. A '74 Pinto. I spent every weekend under the hood keeping it running. It became a decent car after I stuffed a .030 over bored 302 and a toploader 4 speed in it. I did the same to an '80 Jazz Wagon with the port hole windows in the side. That was a fun car. Many Mustangs and Camaros went down to that wagon. :) niiiice :cool:

I have been lucky. I've owned around 50-60 cars. (wife calls it the 6 month inch when I start hitting the car lots, Thrifty Nickel, newspaper ads etc. when I start looking. She didn't keep track too well as it's actually been about every 3 months I've gotten a "different" car)

All of them I've been lucky. The most I've been embarrassed is in the '63 Vette. It sits too much so rust in the fuel system has left me stranded (quick simple fix) and also I had a bad starter solenoid with it once and left me stranded twice due to that as the problem was intermittent and I waited til I "got round a tuit" to fix it. Each time I had to get people to help push start it, oddly enough they were ready to take turns to push start it but it rapped off first try each time.

The Diablo dropped the exhaust system right after I first got it. THAT was embarassing but considering the state of the car it was to be expected and it was a simple fix to limp it home.

The biggest hunk of garbage I've owned had to be my Mexican spec '84 VW Bug. NOTHING matched up to a regular bug, it all looked the same but just tiny difference to make it not fit so I had to buy the Mexican bug parts for it which were more expensive than the cheap stuff.

Other one was a '64 Porsche 356C. Had it in high school many years ago and never drove it as it was broke the entire time I owned it (after I sold it found out it was the voltage regulator though it didn't give off the normal warning signs the regulator was bad) . I was scared to death to drive it because of the unibody design anyway, much too expensive to fix if I were to wreck it.

This is a great thread, I've enjoyed reading it.

The bright yellow 1973 Fiat 850 Sport Spyder that I drove in high school in the late seventies was a very beautiful Italian POS. The window winders never worked correctly, it leaked, the defrost was a joke, the throttle cable would stick and the thing was always out of tune. As bad as my Fiat (Fix it again Tony) was, my buddies '64 Austin Healey Sprite was much worse. We would be racing along the river on the dike road at night and his lights would turn off! Now that would pucker anyones bung hole! He was always having electrical problems with his English made POS. The good part was that the chicks (birds) really liked to go for rides in our little convertables. Yes I did......but I sure couldn't do it now with my fat bottom. Ahhh....those were the days! Were is my Ted Nugent 8-track? My kid thought my box of 8 tracks were early VHS tapes.

No doubt the worst was my first. It was a wild (in my eyes),50's car that was quite a one of a kind. It was unlike what Ford Or Chevy made. When I got the red,rusty car, I fell in love with it. It was THE car of my life. It was easy to overlook the dents and dings. The rust was only on the surface. Then one day, when the car was only two weeks old, I found myself in a drag race with Danny (my neighborhood rival). We pulled up next to each other at the line we drew on the street, him with his shiny new car, and me in my 'new' one. Man, was I proud of it. Well, the girl next door was the flagman/girl, and when she droped the flag, we were off. I got the jump on him and had EXCELLENT grip. When I was about 4 car lenghts in front, my right front hubcap came off. THAT's when all hell broke loose. First, Danny ran over it, then the nail holding the wheel on, came off, then the wheel. It was quite a wreck!! Man, I'll never own another peddlecar again.

1982 Pontiac J200. Bought it brand new. Crap from day 1. Owned it for 2 years, and it NEVER was in a condition where everything worked properlly. ...hated that POS!

HAHA! That one was a good one! Reminds me of my old '64 Falcon convertible.

In the 80's one Friday night I was coming home from my girlfriends house (we won't say a name but last time I saw her Psycho describes her well) and I was slowing down to a stoplight that was about a mile ahead. Out of the corner of my eye I saw flash. I was slowing from around 100mph (remember old car 4 wheel drum brakes) so my attention was on the road but I knew it was my hubcap. I noted where I was and decided I'd come back EARLY in the morning which was only a few hours.

Morning came and I made out to the area and walked all up and down the road looking for it. About 30 minutes later I see a guy jogging down the road with it. He asked if that was what I was looking for. Turned out he knew who I was (even though I wasn't driving the Falcon when I went to look for the cap). He recognized me and knew the $$ value on the cap as it was a Ford wire spinner which ran about $100 each back then. I asked where he found it and he said at teh stoplight. That thing went almost a mile by itself!

The Falcon wasn't one of my worst cars though it had it's problems. Same stoplight- different girlfriend and different day the timing chain went out and skipped a link. The car ran great so I figured I'd fix it and put a new cam in at the same time. I was sliding the new cam in I heard a metal "tink". I knew I dropped the camplug out of the back of the motor. It was then I decided to rebuild the motor too. Long story short. It was a rare 5 bolt block on a rare weak 2-speed auto tranny. I built the motor too strong for the tranny and ripped out the transmission mount. That was the beginning. Still a great car I put MANY trouble free miles on.

The worst car I ever owned was wonderful, it's all good to me! jim

87 Taurus, 84 Sundance, 84 Rabbit Diesel............ I don't know which smoked worse, the Sundance or the Rabbit!!! The worst looking car I ever owned is my '73 El Camino (aka The WarPony). I've had it for 10 years now and people still ask, "Do you still have that piece of $hit El Camino?" Answer.... YES I DO!!!!! If that car could talk the police would've hauled me and it to jail years ago!!

4WD Ferd Ranger V6-Reconstructed Ttitle.

Mismatched rear diff- Didn't have nearly enough gear.
Manual trans that howled at all times.
Ran like poo, that is when it ran it all :mad:
:yell: A dog that should have bean put out of it's misery :bomb:

The worst for me was Chevy s-10 durango,Chevette and don't forget the ever so unreliable ford windstar!

Hmm...let's see. The crapiest car I've owned was a 1985 Honda CRX with a carb'd 5spd. The little F'r got 52mpg with a blown headgasket on a 200+ mile gas mileage run. Put about $600 worth of work into it and sold it for what I had in it plus a little. I guess I can't complain. I must confess to owning a FFFFord but it was inherited from my grandfather. That was a very reliable truck (75 F-100) and was also my 1st vehicle.

I've had too many cars to remember ranging from a '37 Ford to the present, an '04 Rainier and the '84 cruck. There was no "worst" but the biggest money pit is garaged next to the Ranier. And is no end in sight!

Worst car I own has to be a toss up between my 73 Vega GT and my 79 Porsche 928.

The vega finally self destructed at 50k mile when it through a rod throught the block. Engine was so underpowered I quit using the A/C and that say a lot, I live in Texas. Had this car through my college years so broke I couldn't afford to unload it.

The 928 was a $$$ pit. Loved the car, but for the 3 years I owned it I averaged $350 per month in maintenance. That does not include payments, insurance and fuel. Oil change cost me $35 to change in my garage. That was not using synthetic oil. Just a really expensive oil filter and 8 quarts of dino oil. An air filter was $56. Had a leak in the steering rack. No seal replacements. Had to buy a complete new rack. $1800.
The list goes on. But it was a blast to drive. Just needs a Chevy small block transplant.
Kris

69 Z10 Camaro Pace Coupe
71 SS 454 El Camino

Well it seems like every 80's Chevy car that isn't an El Camino seems to die a month after I buy it. I got a 84 Cavalier convertable that ran great no rust looked like a brand new car. Well about a month later the tranny went out. So about a month ago I got a 89 Chevy Beretta well guess what the engine blew. :mad: I think I have learned to stick with El Caminos!!!!!

1980 Datsun 210 Wagon. Bought it for $300 as a beater/beach car. I lived in Daytona Beach at the time, and I didn't want to run my '77 Elky on the beach. That Datsun had so much rust on it that it was hard to tell the original color. One day on I-95, the outer skin of the hood separated from the hood frame. So, I pulled over at a station, unbolted it, and threw the hood in the dumpster. I ran it without a hood for a month. Other than brakes and a starter, it ran pretty good though. It sure looked like a$$ however.

Worst REAL car I ever had was a 66 Mercury Caliente. The weak C4 automatic tranny went out 4 times in a year. The car only spent 8 months of that year on the road, but to give you an idea of how much a 17 year old can drive, it still logged over 25,000 miles that year!

First couple of months were spent with a 200 cu in 6 cylinder, flat out speed 86 mph. It got tossed in favor of a mild 289, which then started killing transmissions due to the fact that it was still the 6 cyl version of the C4 behind it (different front housing was all that was needed to ruin transmissions back then.) Ahh, the ignorance (and Bliss) of youth.

How many members do we have????? This could get lenghty....A friend of mine had a 73 vega wagon that rusted so bad it was two inches longer in reverse than in forward ---think of the problems that could cause......Dan

Has to be a 1998 Dodge Caravan, New trans replacement at the 1300 mile mark,4200 miles the bolt that holds the spring loaded serpentine belt tensioner decided to brake off while driving 65 mph on the interstate. At around 6800 miles the transmission decided to not shift into overdrive and the rear main seal let go. Granted all covered under warrenty, Even the wipers stopped working and stayed stuck in the upper part of the stroke. We traded that pig at 7,500 miles. We now have a Kia Sorrento, my wife loves this thing. 10 year - 100,000 limited warranty, tough to beat, and it is built on a truck chassis with 16 inch tires, not to shabby. Happy Holidays

worse "car" I ever owned would have to be a Pontiac Ventura! Nothing but problems from day 1. The topper was having the rear leaf springs self-destruct and fall off piece by piece as I was toolin down the road!

for me its a toss up between my 88 Escort Gt and an 87 S-10 pickup.

the escort was given too me buy a guy who my dad worked with. we had to tow it home cause it wouldnt run and would over heat every 5 miles (i lived 7 miles from where we picked the car up at). after swapping in another motor that i got through a friend (a little tip, always rebuild a motor you get from a salvage yard), it still would not run. had it towed to a dealership, needed a new module in the dist. cap. got that fixed and drove fine, except for burning a quart of oil every 2 hr and 15 min of driving.

the s-10 i bought for $800 (worst $800 i ever spent). had a little 4 cyl that smoked, so i had to put another motor in it. drove it 10 miles with no fan, water pump, water, or antifreeze. put in in the ditch on the way home and messed up the exhaust and brake line. put water pump off old motor and new radiator in. put new exhaust on had to do complete brake job. wouldnt start put 3 computers in it before we found out that it was the wire to the fuel pump and been shorted out. then the water pump locked uo so i had to put a new one on. to top it off the bed was not attached and i had to scrape frost off the inside of the windows in the winter.

1993 Escort GT DOHC 1.8 127hp

It was a "reconstructed" vehicle that had been in a flood. Many electrical problems, the worst was the power seat belts. The cramped engine bay made it difficult to service. Very slow - someone ordered the GT package but with an automatic transmission :?

I had saved up money for a year to fix all the problems. I spent two weeks fixing everything that was wrong with it and the first time I drive it afterwards this guy ran a stop sign and T-boned me on the driver side. It crumpled up like a soda can.

The first year of the Ford Escort/Mercury Lynx....was it '83 I think? Anyway, I didnt know then what I know now - and have established as a rule - NEVER to buy a first-year of a completely new model....wait until all the bugs get worked out in a model year or two.. :mad:

anyway without a doubt that Lynx was the WORST ever car - hands down - that I ever had. First Ford (altough technically a Mercury) I ever owned, and really turned me against Ford products. I have only owned one more Ford ever since, and it was a nice 77 Mercury Grand Marquis - a nice car - at least one they knew how to build right.

My worst car has to be a tie between my 89 S10 blazer and the 95 chevy beretta z26. The blazer was a total piece and I think the berreta was just jinked but, it did look good.

YALL FORGOT ABOUT THE XR4TI. THE OLD LADY'S HIGH SCHOOL SLED, JUNK-JUNK-JUNK!!!

1987 Nissan sentra, no radio no power windows or locks no a/c no go!!!

It didn't run badly but it was a real embarassment to drive...1976 Honda Civic Wagon in Orange with a 2spd automatic. One day I parked it and as I was getting out a little old man told me I "shouldn't park here on Tuesdays". I said "there were no signs saying NO PARKING", he then told me it was "because they pick the garbage up here on Tuesdays"!

Worst as far as repairs...Merkur XR4Ti. Expensive and frequent.

LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!

1991 Camero
That car cause me so much freaking pain. I must say for once i had almost wished I went imported.

HAHA just kiddin, I would never do that. Unless you hand me a Gibbs Aquada, man those things are cool.
Gibbs Aquada (http://www.gibbsaquada.com/)

No doors, no top, and it needs to look a little more like the $150,000 price tag 8O

man its a BOAT/CAR! who cares if its got a top or doors!

I personally like the Amphicars from the '60s, but at least this one goes a little faster 8)

I also like the Amphicars of the 60's: http://www.amphicar.com/museums/museums.html

1965 Mustang that I bought in 73 for $200. 4 lug front wheels, 5 lug rear. Originally a six that someone dropped a greaseball 289 in, Falcon 4speed and shifter (1st and 3rd under the dash, a real knuckle buster). At least they did put a V-8 rear in it (hence the 5 lug rear). Halfway home on a 20 mile drive we had to call the local volunteer fire department because that grease ball caught fire when it back fired through the carb with no air cleaner. Towed it home where a friend rewired it under the hood and dropped a Holley 850 double pumper modified for racing on it. Ran it up and down the alley a couple of times blowing out enough blue smoke to chase the neighbors inside. Got rid of it. I was 16 and this was the first car I had ever bought, didn't know anything about cars, but learned quick.

Thats a tough one.
Worst probably the 71 Vega GT that had a entirely new drive train by 17,000 miles.
2nd worse a Renault GTA, fun car but the brakes scared people off the streets in front of you

best cars
1990 Old Cutlass, other than the 4 (yes 4) GM paint jobs I replaced the alternator once, other than that just routine oil and gas and tuneups over 92,000 miles
1986 Pontiac 6000SE that was one great looking and driving car
1971 Chevy Impala, 400 small block. never had the valve covers off it when I sold it with 144,000 miles on it, didn't use a drop of oil and would still smoke the tires.

It has to be our 2004 Buick Rainier.

I owned an 82 AMC Eagle wagon that was pure evil. Dealer told me he had more in warranty claims to AMC than I'd paid for the vehicle!! My wife loved it, tho', so we kept on fixing the beast. My 16 year old son finally killed it off as per my instructions, and even then I had to use a grinder to get the damn license plate off when the wrecker came to get it.

Without a doubt the dreaded Chrysler K cars...pure junk, both my company car and my sons car!!! No wait it was my wifes 86 Ford Tempo...no it was her 76 Ford Grenada!!! Hmmm, there's a pattern here...maybe that's why I only own GMs now!

1978 Fiatx19 Too small for a real man.

2000 Honda Civic.
FWD, ugly color, and a four banger. Not a single redeeming quality about it.

2000 Honda Civic.
FWD, ugly color, and a four banger. Not a single redeeming quality about it.

This one surprises me...usually Hondas are the most reliable things on the road. What did you not like about this particular one??

It was reliable as hell, but with insurance of nearly 400 dollars a month and an underpowered FWD vehical, I wasnt too fond of it.

Holy Snike! $400 a MONTH! What did you do? Run a busload of Nuns off the road and all the insurance companies are PO'ed at you?

I was thinking that too. If a Honda was the worst car you've ever owned you're lucky. Wow, I pay less than that for 6 months insurance on my '03 Civic.

I just remembered what was one of my worst cars......

1979 Mercedes 280SEL, it just couldn't hold up under 5 hours of 120MPH+ touch and go driving.

The other again was German engineering. An '84 Volkswagen Beetle-- Mexican Bug. What a piece. Needless to say, I'm not fond of German cars. I did have an Opel once that was decent.

A 1984 chevy truck. With a 305 it ran good and then i went to have the Emissions checked 5 times it failed. Hydrocarbons were sky high! Got pissed off and smoked the motor spinnin tires at a stop light. Tore it down and found so much carbon in it the valves where not seating all the way. A big piece stuck in the oil pump screen and starved it! Other than that i had some ok cars that could have been fixed up. Wish i could have fixed my 72 olds cutlas supreem up......

Holy Snike! $400 a MONTH! What did you do? Run a busload of Nuns off the road and all the insurance companies are PO'ed at you?

I was thinking that too. If a Honda was the worst car you've ever owned you're lucky. Wow, I pay less than that for 6 months insurance on my '03 Civic..
A sixteen year old driving a Civic during the popularity height of The Fast And the Furious with one accident on his record = Big time cash.
Its also the only other car Ive ever owned.

1981 Trans am Turbo 4.9. A real lemon from the motor, the electrical, rust and interior. I threw more good money after bad on this one than I will ever admit.

Has to be a 1998 Dodge Caravan, New trans replacement at the 1300 mile mark,4200 miles the bolt that holds the spring loaded serpentine belt tensioner decided to brake off while driving 65 mph on the interstate. At around 6800 miles the transmission decided to not shift into overdrive and the rear main seal let go. Granted all covered under warrenty, Even the wipers stopped working and stayed stuck in the upper part of the stroke. We traded that pig at 7,500 miles. We now have a Kia Sorrento, my wife loves this thing. 10 year - 100,000 limited warranty, tough to beat, and it is built on a truck chassis with 16 inch tires, not to shabby. Happy Holidays

I do believe you could've lemon lawed that out with all of those problems. I guess it varys from state to state.

Dave

my worst ride:the Yugo "Sport" i owned for exactly 17hrs & 22mins.the red paint made it quicker than other Yugos. :?

1970 Plymouth Duster.

First car I bought after high school and I owned it exactly 3 weeks before I gave it to the mechanic.

It meant I was walking to work for the next 9 months but it beat the hell out of driving that pile...


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yer.... ok now you guys have it pretty bad with some of the coolest cars though, like the pinto.. common if you anything then u know you can have fun with the car. like suping it up for bout 550 horse power and rebuilding the rear end and lots of modification to a nice cage to protect your a** from getting toasted. Well that was a fun build. but the worst car that i think we owened was a 1989 ford areostar. OMG that !@#% was insane... overheating at 55 and changing the transmission 10 times... no fun.. plus the thing just sucked.. i think the rims were worth more then the van itself... ahh!

77 Pinto.1 dead cylinder, rust. Then my roommate wrecked it. Only paid $50 for it,though. drove it for 6 months, traded it for a 78 Dodge Aspen w/ a slant 6.

1980 something Renault Alliance. Paid $5.00, replaced head gasket & machined the head, new gaskets & fluids. Sold it Christmas Eve for $1,200 to a Middle-Eastern guy who just loved it (He really would have paid more)! My kids got X-mas presents, the buyer extremely happy, and no negative French jokes. My contribution to World Peace!

has to be the car that someone gave me and as a challenge fixed it up and have driven it for some 100,000 non trouble free, noisy and dangerous and that is my present 63 Ford 5 window Econoline. Its FOR SALE replaced by a 72 el camino chopped and lowered horse power etc etc.. Whoa power brakes and steering and automatic and comfortable, safer there is not comparison Ed ke6bnl so. calif.

yer.... ok now you guys have it pretty bad with some of the coolest cars though, like the pinto.. common if you anything then u know you can have fun with the car. like suping it up for bout 550 horse power and rebuilding the rear end and lots of modification to a nice cage to protect your a** from getting toasted. Well that was a fun build. but the worst car that i think we owened was a 1989 ford areostar. OMG that !@#% was insane... overheating at 55 and changing the transmission 10 times... no fun.. plus the thing just sucked.. i think the rims were worth more then the van itself... ahh!

Mine was no fun at all. The thing overheated constantly, would follow any imperfection in the pavement like it was on a rail. Had a broken motor mount making the slant six slant even more. The worst part was that price I paid for the pile of crap, $1000.00. Lesson learned, never buy anything in desperation...

1977DODGE VAN 318 2BBL DOG BUILT BY THE CHRYSLER GUYS ON THEIR B**r BRAKES. IT COULDN'T BE FIXED UNTIL THE FACTORY WARRANTY RAN OUT. WHAT A PILE OF ***.

1977 Dodge van, 318. Numerous problems, Brake caliper lock up, carb flooding,etc. Couldn't be repaired until the factory warranty expired.. I lived in Kokomo, In where chrysler parts were mfg by workers who had adult beverages on brake, lunch, and brake times. I had two cheysler products at once the first /last.

86 Cougar,car would lose all electrical systems including lights while driving.Never fixed,just traded in one day when it was running.

Wow does this thread go on and on. I've had some pretty sh*ty cars over the years. But for what they were, mostly junk brought back to life as cheap transportation, I usually got them to a point of good dependability. Amongst these cars was a 74 Pinto, a 77 Pinto sports wagon, a ravaged 74 Monta Carlo, and a 69 Nova a salvage just before it was to be crushed. Then the 74 Mustang II with a 2.3 4 cly that must of had 3 hp. I fixed that with a 289 transplant. We even own a 85 Caravan with the 2.6 that was known to have carb and balance shaft issues. (This by the way turn out to be a great vehicle and lasted us over 20 years)
But the worse vehicle by far was a 95 Chrysler Le Baron convertible I bought my wife. We bought it 3 years old with 40K on it and we babied this car, it never seen the winters was garage kept, but I still couldn't keep this thing from falling apart. For a never car I dumped money in it worse then any car I owned. The trany went out twice, at 60K I pulled the engine for oil leaks and to fix the valve guides. I replaced the carpet, one power window motor, one top lift, the door switches, the top switch, the rear sway bar broke, the door hinge cracked at the door, I could go on and on like this thread. I did keep this car up but finally had to cut my loses and sell it.
Mike

the all time no 1 piece of c--p, a 78 ford fairmont- it went thru 3 engines in 1 year- all under factory warranty.

2 piece of $#1+ Fords...years and models slip my mind due to amnesia (wife hit me in the head for buying them)Well I posted this a few years ago...now I have one that tops the Fords I've owned by far...1996 Grand Am GT...biggest POS I've ever owned. If I had put the money I've spent fixing this thing into my Elky, the Elky would probably be finished. If anyone is thinking or has the opportunity to buy a Grand Am (any year)...DON'T. I'm now a member of http://www.gaownersclub.com/ Joined just to learn how to fix this thing...along with the other TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND + members.:banghead:

My worst car was a "76" Mustang II MPG, yeah 15 mpg and would not hold 55mph on the highway! What a dog!:barf:

It would have to be a 95' Berreta Z24. I swear that car was possesed.

Had to be the first car i had a VW Super Beetle 60?????. That thing was always braking. When I got it the starter didn't work so me and my twin brother always had to push start it HA HA HA. I remember staying on the look out when we would get to the car to make sure no hot girls saws us push start it. But the kicker came when my dad borrowed it to go to work one day. It did fine that morning, but on the way home the driver side rear wheel came off, thats right the wheel, not the tire, but the whole freakin wheel, while he was doing about 60 MPH. It was funny hearing him recount the story. When the wheel came off he didn't realize it at first because the car stayed level and balanced for a while. So while he is driving all of a sudden this wheel shoots past him just rolling merrily down the road in front of him, and he is thinking (well isn't that just the oddest thing to see a wheel just rolling down the road, and I'm the only one on it). Needless to say it all made since once the car finally became unbalanced and the axle started to dig a trench into the asphalt. P.S. nobody was hurt.

Remindes me of a buddy of mine. He bought a 72 Old 98 4 door for 100 bucks when we were teenagers. He got it cheap because the hole doghouse was crunched, but was still drivable. Other then that it was a nice car with a 454 in it. He never fixed the body damage
One night when drunk on his kester, on the way home he lost the left front wheel and brake drum due to a seized wheel bearing. Not wanting to stop he drove it home 3 miles missing the wheel. He said that big engine pushed the car with no problem.
When he told me I through there is no way he could have drove that car that far, but I went with him to try and find the wheel, and sure enough there was a trench in the black top the 3 miles to his house. We never found the wheel, the backing plate and lower control arm were ground away and the brakes had fallen off somewhere. To say the lest he junked the car. Just proves what beer and HP can do! :beer:
Mike

I'd have to say the worst car ive ever owned would be my 04 matrix, not cus the car itself sucked but because it had bad luck, I mean I only had the thing for about a year and I got rear ended twice, the first was worse than the second but they wouldn't total it cus it didnt have enof dollor amount damage wise though it cost the insurance 9k to fix it, the only reason they totaled it the second time cus the airbags went off. i dont know why they didnt go off the first time maybe cuz the second i got hit into a wood fence i dunno.:neutral: