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Craigs topical question of the week
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Craigs topical question of the week
Whats the worst car you have ever owned.
Please add pics if you have any.
Please add pics if you have any.
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Gringo
Toss up between:
1970 Austin Maxi 1500 in beige and no second gear... or
!984 Austin Metro City (say it like Sean Connery) 1000 in white... or
2000 Ford Ka2 in RED (grandad)... or
1998 Suzuki Vitara softop in black (hairdresser)... or
1970 VW Beetle 1500 in white (ish) with no floor...or
blimey, most of it's been shocking really!
Can we start a thread for best cars? I might find one less embarrassing.
1970 Austin Maxi 1500 in beige and no second gear... or
!984 Austin Metro City (say it like Sean Connery) 1000 in white... or
2000 Ford Ka2 in RED (grandad)... or
1998 Suzuki Vitara softop in black (hairdresser)... or
1970 VW Beetle 1500 in white (ish) with no floor...or
blimey, most of it's been shocking really!
Can we start a thread for best cars? I might find one less embarrassing.
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latil
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Morris 1100 or 848 Minivan,both equally awful,2 Fiat Pandas,not as bad,904 pushrod engine far better performer than the later 999 "FIRE" engine.
1965 Belvedere 2 426 Wedge.
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wish i still had it now though $$$$$$$
Jon 
). Those Chrysler guys thought of everything..
What you on about? It was designed to look fast, sleek and cool whilst at a standstill (even with the wheels locked in the right hand position1969 dodge charger...what a pile...
seems a bit more reliable now I've spent the family fortune on it
). Those Chrysler guys thought of everything.. Involuntarius peristalsis rectum
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Citroen Dyane and an Ami.
It all went le pear shaped for France when they kicked us out in the middle ages.
It all went le pear shaped for France when they kicked us out in the middle ages.
Involuntarius peristalsis rectum
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All my really cheap cars have been great (e.g. my first car , 1.1 fiesta bought at 16 1/2 and my dad and I put new wings etc on it). Loved that car, and to buy it was £400 hard earned...
So in terms of 'its just crap' it would have to be a company car I had a few years ago, it was a Renault Megane coupe. Would never spend my own money on a french car now. Flimsy , nasty crap.
This was an expensive car (not my money !) but rubbish. Goes to show its not what you spend that denotes the happiness of your driving experience.
So in terms of 'its just crap' it would have to be a company car I had a few years ago, it was a Renault Megane coupe. Would never spend my own money on a french car now. Flimsy , nasty crap.
This was an expensive car (not my money !) but rubbish. Goes to show its not what you spend that denotes the happiness of your driving experience.
Renault 8. My Dad bought it for my 21st birthday, bless him. It was white with rust patches, and had a crankcase ventilation pipe pointing at the road which spewed smoke like a Trabant. Sounded like one too.
I didn't have the heart to say I wouldn't be seen dead in it, so I drove it for a few weeks (when it would start), and then revved the nuts off it until it died.
Strange thing is that it would be quite a cool car now - I've seen a couple of them lowered on Empis. Pic isn't of mine - for illustration purposes only.
I didn't have the heart to say I wouldn't be seen dead in it, so I drove it for a few weeks (when it would start), and then revved the nuts off it until it died.
Strange thing is that it would be quite a cool car now - I've seen a couple of them lowered on Empis. Pic isn't of mine - for illustration purposes only.
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Oh you have got me started now! 
All my cars until I bought the Challenger had been terrible.
I always tell people that my Aussie Charger was the first car I ever had. But that is not completely true....
For a time I "owned" a Reliant Regal 600cc. That was probably the worst car I ever had.
I got it for free with broken engine when I was 17 before I passed my driving test.
I don't count it because I never got it on the road.
I rebuilt the engine myself with parts from another bought for £10. But they had different distributors with different drives. I had to make one good dizzy out of the two but although I got the engine running I had bent the dizzy shaft a bit so the points dwell was all over the place and it ran rough as hell. I did take it around the block once but a miserable guy in the street told my Dad he would report me to the Police if I did it again.
Then I lost interest and sold it to a pair of guys building a hovercraft for £40.
After being married and poor for a few years i got divorced and bought the Aussie Charger for £500. That was rotten as hell. I may as well have built one from scratch by the time I had welded it up.
While I was repairing the Charger i got a Hillman Avenger. That was a real bad car as well. Bought from my mate for £200 we painted it with rattle cans. It was rotten. The front subframe in particular. Only one front disc brake worked and that was the one with the pads down to the metal. The rear brakes worked only slightly better but you couldn't leave it parked on a hill. I had received an MOT through the post for it for $18 which was about double for one you have to actually take the car to.
It under-steered like mad and one day I hit a kirb while trying to impress some young girls. That was it totalled.
Next I had a Hillman Imp bought from my sister for £40. That was pretty bad as it had a habit of breaking down at bad times and in bad places.
But it did have a tiny sports steering wheel and tach mounted on the dash. Engine was dead easy to take out as well. Handy because you had to do that every few weeks to fix the bugger.
That got pretty rotten. I pop-riveted some patches over the structural rust holes and put lots of under-seal on to hide the rivet heads. But eventually I had to get shot of it.
Then I had my first Mini. Bought for £100. It was on a Q plate. I drove it for a few months after the Charger went missing and I was waiting for the Challenger to arrive from Texas. The insurance company wanted an engineers report before giving me a policy but I was covered. Sold it for £100 and cancelled the insurance before I needed the report because the Chally had arrived.
Since then I have had another Mini. Another bit of junk.
But then I was living with Diana and she is a good little earner so first we got a Rover Metro that was just a couple of years old (our first "new" car) and later the Neon which was just 9 months old when we bought it in 1999 and we still have it to this day. Had a 1999 Jeep too for a couple of years that was not too old. Never owned a brand new car though.
The Neon has been the most reliable car I have ever had. Head gasket (known design fault) and water pump have been the only major things gone wrong and the pump was my fault because I cracked it by using the wrong bolts.
Recently I have had to replace the petrol filler tube (rust) and just the other day the radiator. It owes me nowt really. Going to replace all the brakes and front discs in the near future. Might treat it to a pair of tyres for the MOT (it gets real ones!) in April.
All my cars until I bought the Challenger had been terrible.
I always tell people that my Aussie Charger was the first car I ever had. But that is not completely true....
For a time I "owned" a Reliant Regal 600cc. That was probably the worst car I ever had.
I got it for free with broken engine when I was 17 before I passed my driving test.
I don't count it because I never got it on the road.
I rebuilt the engine myself with parts from another bought for £10. But they had different distributors with different drives. I had to make one good dizzy out of the two but although I got the engine running I had bent the dizzy shaft a bit so the points dwell was all over the place and it ran rough as hell. I did take it around the block once but a miserable guy in the street told my Dad he would report me to the Police if I did it again.
Then I lost interest and sold it to a pair of guys building a hovercraft for £40.
After being married and poor for a few years i got divorced and bought the Aussie Charger for £500. That was rotten as hell. I may as well have built one from scratch by the time I had welded it up.
While I was repairing the Charger i got a Hillman Avenger. That was a real bad car as well. Bought from my mate for £200 we painted it with rattle cans. It was rotten. The front subframe in particular. Only one front disc brake worked and that was the one with the pads down to the metal. The rear brakes worked only slightly better but you couldn't leave it parked on a hill. I had received an MOT through the post for it for $18 which was about double for one you have to actually take the car to.
It under-steered like mad and one day I hit a kirb while trying to impress some young girls. That was it totalled.
Next I had a Hillman Imp bought from my sister for £40. That was pretty bad as it had a habit of breaking down at bad times and in bad places.
But it did have a tiny sports steering wheel and tach mounted on the dash.
Engine was dead easy to take out as well. Handy because you had to do that every few weeks to fix the bugger.That got pretty rotten. I pop-riveted some patches over the structural rust holes and put lots of under-seal on to hide the rivet heads. But eventually I had to get shot of it.
Then I had my first Mini. Bought for £100. It was on a Q plate. I drove it for a few months after the Charger went missing and I was waiting for the Challenger to arrive from Texas. The insurance company wanted an engineers report before giving me a policy but I was covered. Sold it for £100 and cancelled the insurance before I needed the report because the Chally had arrived.
Since then I have had another Mini. Another bit of junk.
But then I was living with Diana and she is a good little earner so first we got a Rover Metro that was just a couple of years old (our first "new" car) and later the Neon which was just 9 months old when we bought it in 1999 and we still have it to this day. Had a 1999 Jeep too for a couple of years that was not too old. Never owned a brand new car though.
The Neon has been the most reliable car I have ever had. Head gasket (known design fault) and water pump have been the only major things gone wrong and the pump was my fault because I cracked it by using the wrong bolts.
Recently I have had to replace the petrol filler tube (rust) and just the other day the radiator. It owes me nowt really. Going to replace all the brakes and front discs in the near future. Might treat it to a pair of tyres for the MOT (it gets real ones!) in April.
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This one.
Bought off ebay purely to make a profit on
Drove it back from Tamworth, just north of Birmingham, to Bognor
(thats gotta be around 200 miles?) flat out at 50ish mph
It was a windy day and i was all over the place
By the time i got home (bout 5 hours!) i was deaf from the noise of the Cannon exhausts, and my head was pounding
And people say this is a 'fun' car
Bought off ebay purely to make a profit on
Drove it back from Tamworth, just north of Birmingham, to Bognor
(thats gotta be around 200 miles?) flat out at 50ish mph
It was a windy day and i was all over the place
By the time i got home (bout 5 hours!) i was deaf from the noise of the Cannon exhausts, and my head was pounding
And people say this is a 'fun' car
the bad alfa romeo 156 52 plate no history chewed its cambelt £1500
both cats collapsed blocking the exhaust £185 and £495
cam sensor £95 known to all as the Bananarama!
traded it in on "The good" Alfa Romeo 156 sprouts wagon 55 plate me new one love it....... walked into the alfa dealer, bent over and said do me again pretty boy....i never learn....its got alfa romeo logo trousersnake stickers on the front wings
Citron GSA Pallas. hydrospiltastic suspeniony in gerainium red with camel hair coat interior that was a nice car and you could roll the body so one side was nearly a foot and a half above the ground and the other was approx 3 inches if you did roundabouts with the suspension set for tyre changing.
at full lock 1 wheel pointed forward the other round the corner and the camber was massive.
the very bad Fiat 127. spank it around like a mini, very eager to please ,rotten as a pear same engine as the panda put less plastic didn't like the cold and damp so used to pour petrol into the carb from the top and watch the fireworks
the criminal...loved it and treated it bad
67 VW beetle (1 year only model)
7 engines in 2 years all of em out of sheds breakers yards coal holes and chicken coops across the NE of england.
we flogged it for all its worth and it kept going if it wasn't for the end floaty old engines.
glasgow-newcastle- london- newcastle-glasgow new engine...repeat for 4 years
i melted the road with molten aluminium half way over bodmin moor going to run to the scum in newquay.... bugs don't do 90 up hills with 4 fat blokes in em
eventually started building my own and apart from snapping the crank no issues (little bit of youthful folly build it to run to 7 grand but use a standard crank......silly)
its all been good
no maxis here
always fancied a skoda estelle and an escort mk1 mexi
dave
both cats collapsed blocking the exhaust £185 and £495
cam sensor £95 known to all as the Bananarama!
traded it in on "The good" Alfa Romeo 156 sprouts wagon 55 plate me new one love it....... walked into the alfa dealer, bent over and said do me again pretty boy....i never learn....its got alfa romeo logo trousersnake stickers on the front wings
Citron GSA Pallas. hydrospiltastic suspeniony in gerainium red with camel hair coat interior that was a nice car and you could roll the body so one side was nearly a foot and a half above the ground and the other was approx 3 inches if you did roundabouts with the suspension set for tyre changing.
at full lock 1 wheel pointed forward the other round the corner and the camber was massive.
the very bad Fiat 127. spank it around like a mini, very eager to please ,rotten as a pear same engine as the panda put less plastic didn't like the cold and damp so used to pour petrol into the carb from the top and watch the fireworks
the criminal...loved it and treated it bad
67 VW beetle (1 year only model)
7 engines in 2 years all of em out of sheds breakers yards coal holes and chicken coops across the NE of england.
we flogged it for all its worth and it kept going if it wasn't for the end floaty old engines.
glasgow-newcastle- london- newcastle-glasgow new engine...repeat for 4 years
i melted the road with molten aluminium half way over bodmin moor going to run to the scum in newquay.... bugs don't do 90 up hills with 4 fat blokes in em
eventually started building my own and apart from snapping the crank no issues (little bit of youthful folly build it to run to 7 grand but use a standard crank......silly)
its all been good
no maxis here
always fancied a skoda estelle and an escort mk1 mexi
dave
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