#273722 - 10/21/04 03:25 AM
Worst car you ever owned?
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Registered: 10/31/02
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I had ford tempo...the drivers side door closed with a bungee cord.
The factory clear coat peeled away leaving it looking like the skin of leper.
I hit a deer doing (fast!) and completely annihilated the drivers front quarter....the resulting shimmy at 60 mph caused a few of my girlfriends to express their fondness for the ugly duck.
I fixed that though forever by failing to notice a bucket of sand shrimp had worked its way down to where the spare tire goes in the trunk. Took me about three weeks before I realized it wasn't 'just some left over fish slime' making that stink and by that time it was far far too late.
Every morning, same ritual...start die, start die, start die, chortle................run. Drop into gear then feather, feather, feather.......... die. Start, run, drop into gear and drive. It was that easy.
Tell you what about that car though......that fkr went everywhere.
Eventually the drivers side drive axle broke and i junked it for fifty bucks. When I bought it from my brother it was in pretty decent shape. I think it only lasted another two years before it met its doom.
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#273724 - 10/21/04 10:57 AM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 10/10/03
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1990 corvette. It was advertised as a 200MPH car. I could only get it to do 194.
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#273725 - 10/21/04 01:12 PM
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Spawner
Registered: 07/02/03
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Loc: Olympia
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It was a Saab story
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#273728 - 10/21/04 04:43 PM
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Registered: 04/07/04
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Loc: maine
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I am not sure of the year but it was horrible my first car but a LTD station wagon. The only good thing about it was it got us back and forth to the grateful dead shows with ten of us in the car that was a voyage having to put water in the radiator like every 200 miles
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#273730 - 10/21/04 07:48 PM
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Registered: 06/15/04
Posts: 372
Loc: Tacoma
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That's funny Aunty. My first was a '63 Ford Falcon. I loved that car.
I think my pops had the right idea giving me that hunk. I learned about cigar burn hole's, spilled liquor, and how loose gravel can throw your arse into a tree in a hurry, all in about a year.
Memories.
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#273731 - 10/22/04 12:13 AM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 12/15/02
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I had a 63 ford falcon, loved that car,should have kept it, learned alot more in that car than how slam a beer and such, seems like eons ago.worst car Pinto, had it about two weeks,then gave it away......Fishy.
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#273732 - 10/22/04 06:55 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 07/11/04
Posts: 3091
Loc: Bothell, Wa
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Biggie's Battlewagon......A Plymouth Satelite.
It was awful. The spare tire held up the drivers seat. One time while barreling down a logging road I caught some air and the tire came out, next thing I know I'm laying flat on my back looking at the roof.
Three straight descents from Stevens pass I did a couple of 360's. We got used to it.
No reverse. I always had to plan on how to get out of a parking spot prior to parking.
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#273734 - 10/25/04 04:43 PM
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 10/07/02
Posts: 212
Loc: Redmond
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Had to be the MGB-GT, work on it for two days, drive it for five, work on it........sold it for $1800, but would have given it away. He totaled the car two weeks later, best thing that could have happened to it, he was OK.
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