What worst car have you bought ever?

[vercingetorix]

1962 Hillman Minx

Bought it for $80.00 it lasted one day and the engine siezed

[Doehring]

A VW/Porsche 914 1,6 l.

When braking , esp. on a wet road, but also in dry, for a curve you never knew whether it will under- or oversteer. You had to make a "test braking" first and if you needed support by downshifting from 4th to 3rd gear it could happen that you ended in 5th. And by the way, the maintenace was so expensive. The built in relatvely cheap VW parts for Porsche prices.

Rolf

[jtmader]

3 come to mind actually.....a Renault LeCar (a tin piece of crap), a Volkswagon Beetle (winter car with NO heat) and last but not least a Datsun F10 (ran OK but UGLY)!!!!

[John Coffey]

1981 Chevrolet Citation X-11. In four years I went through: four recalls, three front wheel bearings, two rear main seals, three window regulators, one AC compressor, one transmission, one carburetor, uncountable shift linkage cable clips, one radio, one HVAC control unit, and two radiators.

[kjphilippona]

1974 Datsun 260Z

[jmortensen]

1981 Chevrolet Citation X-11. In four years I went through: four recalls, three front wheel bearings, two rear main seals, three window regulators, one AC compressor, one transmission, one carburetor, uncountable shift linkage cable clips, one radio, one HVAC control unit, and two radiators.

Ouch. Sounds like you bought a NEW one... What does that make you?

My first car was a 79 Mustang, smurf blue with smurf blue vinyl interior and plastic wood paneling. Bought at silent auction from my high school autoshop. I won the auction and went to get it running and rebuilt the carb which had 13,578 vacuum hoses attached to it. I carefully labeled each hose and it's fitting on the carb, then dipped the carb to clean it and cleaned off all of my vacuum hose marks. Doh! I tried several times to get the thing figured out but it always ran on 3 cylinders. It was a dead heat between my car and my friend's VW diesel rabbit, so that was fun. We drag raced everywhere and people were probably stuck behind us complaining how slow we were going. I think 0-60 was ~23 seconds.

[John Coffey]

What does that make you?

A fool for believing a Motor Trend recommendation. I knew it was bad when the service manager at Don Steves Chevrolet just laughed at me and said, "Everyone knows these things are pieces of crap. The mechanics hate 'em."

[gnosez]

A five dollar Corvair that blew three spark plugs into the rear hood about 10 miles from the POV's house....

[Bonzi Lon]

A 75 Corvette. Bought in 82 for $7000. It ran real good, had a rebuilt engine, beefed up from the original underpowered 350, but it was a piece of junk. Everything rattled, squeeked, fell apart, fell off, t-tops and back window leaked, 3 water pumps, chased vacuume leaks, 2 master vacs, ac froze up killing the engine at a busy intersection, etc, spent over $7000 on it in the 3 years I had it. Sold it in 85 and could only get $7000 out of it. The new owner had it 2 years and got $7250 in 87. Saw one last week in the paper for $7000. They do hold their value.

Bonzi Lon

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[Earthcruiser]

95 4runner. No power, no leg room and bad gas mileage. Bought within a week of totalling my 94 toyota p/u. (Last November) Went from a great truck to a turd.

The second would have to be a 69-73 Ford Bonco (Should have been the clue). Its was kinda like the Cadillac song. Had a 390ci in it. Got the front wheels off the ground from a complete stop. Scary in traffic. Burn't it to the ground in three months. Gas leak and electrical short. The worst part is I sold my first 240z for it.:sick:

[jmortensen]

The second would have to be a 69-73 Ford Bonco (Should have been the clue). Its was kinda like the Cadillac song. Had a 390ci in it. Got the front wheels off the ground from a complete stop. Scary in traffic. Burn't it to the ground in three months. Gas leak and electrical short. The worst part is I sold my first 240z for it.:sick:

Gotta disagree here. I love old Broncos. Ford 9 in back Dana 44 (in the later ones) in front, V8 power, short wheelbase. Great off road truck. Maybe not a great commuter, but a great rock crawler/trail rig.

[Kathy & Rick]

(See below, I goofed)

Edited November 13, 2009 by Kathy & Rick