worst car you have ever owned

[Beowulf]

[QUOTE=DVV;295498]Rolls Royce Wraith.
QUOTE]

But what a cool car to have to complain about!

[DVV]

Rolls Royce Wraith.
And if you ask me about women : Faye Dunaway in the seventies.

[Limehouse]

Hi Graham,

I remember plastic padding! My car had a fair amount of it holding the headlights in! Cars just don't corrode as quickly as they did back in the 60s and 70s.

I think the company I worked for had Morris Marinas as company cars for a while. I seem to remember our Area Manager having a bright orange one. Then they were given new Cortinas - mark 3 or 4 I think

In those days, I could always spot the make and model of a car by its distinguishing features - like the fins on a Triumph Herald or the 'humps' on a Morris Moggie. Nowadays, I can't tell a Porche from a poodle.

Julie

[Graham]

I bought an old Austin A40 Farina in about 1972 - mechanically it was pretty good and didn't let me down, but you could almost see the body visibly rotting away. It was held together with the dreaded Plastic Padding. When the tailgate fell off one day, that was it.

Much later I picked up a brand new Morris Marina, which was a company car. I'd driven them before, thought they were crap, but had no choice in the matter. It managed about 20 miles before the water-pump started leaking, I got it fixed, then 2 weeks later I lost 1st and 2nd gear. Junk.

Not my car, but a friend had an old Mk10 Jaguar which literally broke in two going up the M6 to Liverpool....he said even the cops who stopped were laughing.

Graham

[GUT]

The one that cost me the most money in repairs was a 1972 V-12 Jaguar. I hated it so much that I traded it in on a 1974 V-12 Jaguar.

I am jealous.

[sdreid]

The one that cost me the most money in repairs was a 1972 V-12 Jaguar. I hated it so much that I traded it in on a 1974 V-12 Jaguar.

[The Good Michael]

all of mine were the worst. I absolutely hate cars...or having one. I've had them out of necessity, but have never liked them. Bicycles....that what I could talk about.


Mike

[Limehouse]

GUT you know FORD stands for Fix Or Repair Daily - some say Found On The Road Dead

Roy

We used to call them 'Dagenham Dustbins' .

My first and only car was a Singer Gazelle. I think it was a 1969/70 model but I had it in 1978. The handbrake was on the right hand side and I was forever forgetting to release it. I could actually drive it with the handbrake on! When it rained, my feet got wet. However, it was my little bit of independence for a short time. Shortly after that, I had to give up driving due to medical reasons but I have fond memories of my old Singer.

[louisa]

I bought an old Ford Anglia way back in the early seventies. There was no door lining and you could only turn the ignition on with a screwdriver, which had to be kept in the ignition. The windscreen wiper (singular) had be operated manually - by means of a long piece of string pulled in the direction you wanted the wiper to go.

Despite all this somebody actually attempted to steal it! I was awoken in the middle of the night by the familiar sound of the engine being turned over, time after time. I looked out of the window and the thief had the bonnet up but he ran off when he saw the bedroom light come on.

When I put this old beauty in to be repaired the mechanic wrote 'crap green' in the box where they had to state the car's colour.

Ah, the good old days!

[pinkmoon]

I think I can beat you all...back circa 1982/83 my first wife and I became owners of a Morris Marina Coupe...get it up to fifty and the arse end waggled about because there was no weight over the back wheels...put a little weight over the back wheels (like a couple of paving slabs in the boot) and the rear suspension leaf springs (I kid you not!) would go completely flat and threaten to collapse exuding rust dust all over the place...

Ah yes... of course there was the rust...the cars were built with rust pre-installed, the final paint coats sprayed over rust, and every time Leyland went out on strike, the cars were left in the yards to further rust...the 1300 engine was the biggest piece of garbage ever, the propshaft continually whined...and we went through two clutches in two years...

We eventually, through sympathetic contacts in our friendly bus garage, (labour entirely free...well the company paid but didn't know that... and about £150 for parts), had it rebuilt with a recycled 1800 engine, gearbox, clutch, propshaft and rear axle, (I think they altered the engine mountings too but can't recall), and though it then went like **** off a shovel it was never going to be much good. I left the car with said first wife when we split up...and to be honest was never so glad as to part with either!

One very good thing about living in a country where a good deal of the native automotive industry has died...the joy of never having again to ride in a British Leyland motor!

All the best

Dave

Hi Dave, in 1983 I had just left school and went to work in London for my uncle who was a used car dealer the first thing I learnt was that anything to do with British Leyland was for want of a better word shite. The Marina was awfully but the allegro was a crime against humanity dodgy body work back wheels falling of rear Windows falling out and a certainty of a serious oil leak different times then no attempt what so ever to recall these cars.

[Beowulf]

1964 Studebaker Daytona.

It was actually a good little car but I bought it in the 80s, and so it needed a bit of work, everyday.

Plus I met a lot of mechanics that took both me and the car for a ride. I actually had a guy charge me for work and when it continued to have the same problem I took it to a different mechanic who when I told him the problem I had fixed showed me the old piece had never been replaced. I was too naïve to recognize you had to check the mechanic. All he did was take the money.

However I loved that car. I sold it to a Studebaker enthusiast and I'm sure he made out better with it. Did his own work.

I nearly put down the Renault I owned here instead, but since it actually never actually ran at all, well...maybe I should have come to think of it.

[Cogidubnus]

Utterly the worst...

I think I can beat you all...back circa 1982/83 my first wife and I became owners of a Morris Marina Coupe...get it up to fifty and the arse end waggled about because there was no weight over the back wheels...put a little weight over the back wheels (like a couple of paving slabs in the boot) and the rear suspension leaf springs (I kid you not!) would go completely flat and threaten to collapse exuding rust dust all over the place...

Ah yes... of course there was the rust...the cars were built with rust pre-installed, the final paint coats sprayed over rust, and every time Leyland went out on strike, the cars were left in the yards to further rust...the 1300 engine was the biggest piece of garbage ever, the propshaft continually whined...and we went through two clutches in two years...

We eventually, through sympathetic contacts in our friendly bus garage, (labour entirely free...well the company paid but didn't know that... and about £150 for parts), had it rebuilt with a recycled 1800 engine, gearbox, clutch, propshaft and rear axle, (I think they altered the engine mountings too but can't recall), and though it then went like **** off a shovel it was never going to be much good. I left the car with said first wife when we split up...and to be honest was never so glad as to part with either!

One very good thing about living in a country where a good deal of the native automotive industry has died...the joy of never having again to ride in a British Leyland motor!

All the best

Dave

[sleekviper]

1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee Orvis Edition.

[GUT]

G'day Roy

But 750,000 km wasn't bad.

When I was a kid a ford was

A bit of tin
A bit of board
Bashed together
Makes a Ford

and a Holden was

Barely Holden together.

[Roy Corduroy]

GUT you know FORD stands for Fix Or Repair Daily - some say Found On The Road Dead

Roy