The worst car you ever owned?

Thanks your post brought back a flood of memory's. My brother bought a new 1972 TR6 Baby Blue that was alot of fun to drive. Sexy chick magnet car. Beautiful fawn leather. Lots of stupid electronic issues from the god awful Lucas electronics. Man that stuff was crap.
He finally sold it when it became such a hassle and bought a behemoth T Bird.
Buy nothing compared to the wedge in sheer crapola. Not many survived around me. Total pos that ruined the Triumph name.

I grew up next town over from Englewood Cliffs NJ home of the biggest British Leyland US HQ. There were MG's & Triumph's everywhere. Very popular cars in my hometown. Maserati had there HQ there to.
When I was a kid I owned a Triumph Spitfire beater. I never got the carbs working right and couldn't keep it running.

Thanks again. Forgot about those cars. Good times.

Oh and worst for me was a 1978 Trans Am. That car sucked.

 

These stories show just how much cars have improved overall, and from Japan in particular. They also explain why an entire generation are sure that a car should be replaced every three years. OTOH, mechanical literacy was so much higher a generation ago than it is today.

 

The most dangerous was the Fiat 850 Spyder!

 

Oh the japs really landed hard with some great cars in the early 70's. I had a 1971 Datsun B210 that you could not kill.
Datsun of course went on to Nissan which made a really great car in there Z's. The 240Z was a beautiful car but had carb problems also. Webbers I think. But a joy to drive and own and fast as hell. Great car. I've owned many Nissan's but my 1992 240SX was truly one of the best cars ever made. I owned that car for 14 years and still ran great when I sold it. Was most proud that car never once in its life saw a dealer rack. Not once.
And the first early 70's Corrola's and Celica's were a really nice car. Tinny doors and body parts but the mechanical's were pretty good.
GM back then as usual had there head up there nice person and refused to pay attention to them for years till they started kicking there nice person. And they never really stopped. Its beyond me why a US car company cannot emulate another and build just as nice a car as the japs make but apparently its really hard.

 

Datsun 510 wagon, one of the best ever! Put a Weber on it and it will run forever, and then some. Toyota Hilux pickups of the 70s are indestructible.

 

I know we all had to learn some wrenching skills to survive as a kid. You learned how things worked while fixing your own car. Skills to last a lifetime. Today's kids are just not interested. They'd rather play a video game.
My next door neighbors kid just got his first car I think he's 17. Never once have seen him wash or wax it or with the hood open. My first car I couldn't stop touching and improving it. It was the very epicenter of your life.

 

Oh the 510 was the shit. Another indestructible car. I wish I still owned one.

 

Hilux and the 70's Toyota FJ were ridiculous how well they were made.

 

+1
The first new car I bought was a 1969 510.

 

Lucas, the Prince of Darkness.

 

I had to laugh at e episode of Mad Men, when they got he Jag account. The guy tried to commit suicide by putting the exhaust hose in the car window. I knew long before that when he went to start the car, it wasn't going to,, and didn't! I started to howl with laughter, my wife looking askance until I explained, Lucas electric,, doesn't run in the rain, or nearly anywhere else!

Icarus

 

Back in the 70's, Lucas decided to diversify its product line and began manufacturing vacuum cleaners. It was the only product they offered which did not suck.

 

Still have the '68 2000 Roadster!

 

I could never figure it out but my wife hated it. Just I couldn't tell if she was 'resting' her foot on the clutch.

Oh, yours had brakes? Ours would eventually stop . . . faster if you wanted some 'excitement' like seeing your life flash before your eyes.

Bob Wilson

 

I understand the British learned to love room temperature beer because the refrigerators were made by Lucas.

Bob Wilson

 

This reminds me of an old joke when comparing something to a two-way vacuum ... it blows, it sucks and it's full of crap!!!