WORLDS WORST CARS !!

Anything off topic you wish to go on this forum goes here.
ColemanCollector
Warrant Officer 2nd Class
Posts: 1116
Joined: Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:50 pm
Location: Ontario, Canada

Re: WORLDS WORST CARS !!

Post by ColemanCollector »

tankme wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2024 9:27 pm
ColemanCollector wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2024 6:13 pm My '93 Pontiac Bonneville SSEi, a car of firsts for me and my wife. The first vehicle we ever bought in the same decade it was built (bought in '99, 95000km), our first automatic, our first fully optioned car, our first supercharged engine, and our first North American manufactured vehicle.
Within the next 10,000km the a/c compressor, alternator, crankshaft sensor, passenger power seat, and a rear window lift all died. Followed that up with the formation of a tiny rust bubble on a rear fender arch and it was a trade-in. I really wanted to like it, but what a steaming pile of unreliability.
Traded in on an Isuzu Trooper w 5 speed that was a real...well...Trooper. One of the vehicles I wish I still had today!

Mike.
That's funny because my stepmother had one of those and swears that was one of the best cars she ever owned...lol

...My POS was a '95 Dodge Neon Coupe in Nitro Yellow Green. That car was in the shop 36 times in 38 months that I owned it...
I think mine was the infamous "Friday Afternoon Production" car. Although I'm reading "Rivethead" by Ben Hamper for about the 5th time, and it could've been pretty much any day or night at GM in the 80-90's!

A Dodge Neon! Bearskin Airlines in Ontario had several of those at various airports across Northern Ontario. They chopped the roofs off of them, and used them to tow the luggage carts out to their Fairchild "Flying Sewerpipe" aircraft. With the roof amputated, they could drive under the wing and pull the cart right up to the cargo door on the plane. Ahhhhh, good times flying to Sioux Lookout, Dryden, and Geraldton!

Mike.
Elbows up
User avatar
Son of a gun-ner
Lieutenant-Colonel
Posts: 7523
Joined: Sun May 07, 2017 8:49 pm
Location: Lancashire UK

Re: WORLDS WORST CARS !!

Post by Son of a gun-ner »

Oh dear, none of you have lived without owning a car like my very first car, a Reliant Super Van 3 :D
I could drive it on my motor bike license, because it was something like 15 kilos below the maximum weight limit for a three wheeled car on a bike licence.

Then my first four wheeled car was a MK1 Ford Escort Mexico.

This is a Reliant Super Van 3
Attachments
Screenshot_20240624-232025.jpg
Screenshot_20240624-232025.jpg (806.43 KiB) Viewed 838 times
Mick - The grit in the underpants of life!
Always happy to spare the bytes
Apparently my mind works in mysterious ways :think:

TOTM needs YOU :thumbup: support YOUR TOTM competition, I'm doing my part, are YOU?
MikeN
Lance Corporal
Posts: 146
Joined: Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:20 am

Re: WORLDS WORST CARS !!

Post by MikeN »

Years ago my friend Phil had a Reliant 3 wheeler. He needed to do some work on the underside of the car. Fortunately his friend John had a pit in his garage ( you can probably work out where this is going) so he arranged to drive round and use his facilities. Without thinking he arrived and drove into the garage and over (into) the pit!
I really wish I could have been there!
User avatar
Son of a gun-ner
Lieutenant-Colonel
Posts: 7523
Joined: Sun May 07, 2017 8:49 pm
Location: Lancashire UK

Re: WORLDS WORST CARS !!

Post by Son of a gun-ner »

MikeN wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2024 11:18 am Years ago my friend Phil had a Reliant 3 wheeler. He needed to do some work on the underside of the car. Fortunately his friend John had a pit in his garage ( you can probably work out where this is going) so he arranged to drive round and use his facilities. Without thinking he arrived and drove into the garage and over (into) the pit!
I really wish I could have been there!
Haha, many people got caught out by that :D
Mick - The grit in the underpants of life!
Always happy to spare the bytes
Apparently my mind works in mysterious ways :think:

TOTM needs YOU :thumbup: support YOUR TOTM competition, I'm doing my part, are YOU?
Post Reply

Return to “Off topic”