What are the worst 3 vehicles you have ever owned.

[catfish58]

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1. 1963 Plymouth Valiant. Rust bucket. Wore out brakes on a regular basis. 2. 1971 Ford Maverick Nuf said. 3. 1074 AMC Matador x with a 304 cid V8. Ran like a 3 legged dog.

 

[catfish58]

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1. 1963 Plymouth Valiant. Rust bucket. Wore out brakes on a regular basis. 2. 1971 Ford Maverick Nuf said. 3. 1074 AMC Matador x with a 304 cid V8. Ran like a 3 legged dog.

Oops. I forgot about the 1984 Pontiac Fiero. It should go in this group somewhere.

 

[jkust]

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OOps. I forgot about the 1984 Pontiac Fiero. It should go in this group somewhere.

They were the poor mans mid engine...did it handle well? Back in the day the Fiero was the butt of many jokes I recall.

 

[southkogs]

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OOps. I forgot about the 1984 Pontiac Fiero. It should go in this group somewhere.

What it lacked in "guts" the Fiero made up for in an affordable "cool" factor. Not saying the car isn't junk, but like the Pacer it'll have an odd place in automotive history I think. I still see quite a few of them on the road around us.

 

[bruceb58]

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The last Fieros were actually semi ok once they got rid of the Citation suspension.

 

[catfish58]

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The Fiero actually handled pretty well. If you turned it off after driving it 20 min or so it wouldn't crank until it cooled down(20 or 30 min). Real embarrising at the gas pump!

 

[TilliamWe]

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The last Fieros were actually semi ok once they got rid of the Citation suspension.

Our 1985 GT handled better than our 88 Mustang GT. Rode much better too. Only thing it didn't do well was turn in low speed parking lots! My dad later bought an 88 Formula, (in 1995) with the all new suspension, and it really didn't make that much difference in ride and handling. Well, that 88 was in Florida, on mostly flat/straight roads, as opposed to the 85 which he owned when we lived in Ohio, the hilly part! Never had any problems with the 85 starting either. It did "burn up" the electric cooling fan once, though, but dad re-wired it okay.
I am actually wanting one for a toy.

 

[matt167]

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To AMC's credit, they had something way before their time. AWD/4WD in passenger cars. Long before the term "crossover" was coined.

The 4WD Concords/Eagles, etc. were pretty good in bad weather. The drivetrain was OK just the rest of the car was total rubbish.

AMC="Ain't My Car". Rest in Peace.

AMC was a good company until the late 70's, early 80's. The problem was they did not have the funding for R&D on a more modern 4cyl/6cyl to meet modern ( for the time ) emissions and fuel economy ratings, so they initially used Volkswagen engines to meet requirements, and they weren't great, so they switched to GM engines, and they were not much better. Quality and reliability suffered for both, and then Renault bought into the company and they never recovered. By 1986 AMC had the Eagle turned into a nice car having scrapped the 2.8L GM v6 and used only the AMC 258 that year, but it was too late.

A guy in my town, has had AMC's for a very long time as daily drivers. He used to have an Eagle wagon but it rotted too far. currently has 2 Concords, a '80 and a '82. The '80 is a rot box winter beater, the '82 is decent, but has over 200k miles. Both cars were in the flood last year, but have since been repaired and he is back driving them.

 

[kenmyfam]

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Morris Marina (England)
Dodge Neon (Wife liked how it looked)
Ford Contour 4 cylinder (junk from the get go)

 

[catfish58]

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Our 1985 GT handled better than our 88 Mustang GT. Rode much better too. Only thing it didn't do well was turn in low speed parking lots! My dad later bought an 88 Formula, (in 1995) with the all new suspension, and it really didn't make that much difference in ride and handling. Well, that 88 was in Florida, on mostly flat/straight roads, as opposed to the 85 which he owned when we lived in Ohio, the hilly part! Never had any problems with the 85 starting either. It did "burn up" the electric cooling fan once, though, but dad re-wired it okay.
I am actually wanting one for a toy.

My cooling fan died too.

 

[jkust]

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What it lacked in "guts" the Fiero made up for in an affordable "cool" factor. Not saying the car isn't junk, but like the Pacer it'll have an odd place in automotive history I think. I still see quite a few of them on the road around us.

There's some youtube videos of guys just flying straightaways in their Fieros. I seem to recal a Top Gear episode where they got their hands on a Fiero and did a bunch of testing.

 

[Harritwo]

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1971 Chevrolet C-10 w 350/350. Could not keept timing chains from breaking, drug the exhaust off many times, and installed 2 engines in it all under 120000 miles when i sold it. I swore I would never own another chevrolet and I kept that promise for 18 years. Then I had what the missus calls a temporary moment of insanity when i bought a 98 chev silverado. Flywheel exploded at 20000, altenator out at 46,00, trasmission at 48,000, traded it off at 49900. Sore I would never own another chevy and going on 10 years now i have kept that promise.

 

[Bamaman1]

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73 Grand Torino Sport with a 351 Cleveland. 14 mpg. Pollution equipment engineering was terrible. Stomp on the gas, and all you'd see was black smoke.

71 Challenger--good looking but absolutely junk body work/construction. 383 engine and 727 automatic transmission were great, however. Wish I still had it, however.

1979 Lincoln Town Car--11 mpg Ford company car (land barge.) I drove it for 2 days and gave it to our 400 pound outside auditor. The seat actually fit his fat ***.