Worst ride ever………and you titled it

• Belly35

  

  First kid was born, change jobs, moved back to Canton, bought my second house and life was good…..
  
  The company I worked for provide a car 1972 maybe 74 Ford Fairlane Ranch Wagon.
  
  This car was from hell……Sometimes it would start, wiper did work half the time, tire was always out of alignment, brakes where trouble always, fuses blow weekly…..the engine was good and had some power but everything else was crap…….
  
  
  
  Never again would I buy a Ford.........However that changes now some of the Ford Products are very good.
  
  
  What your worst ride? and why?
• killdeer

  

  first car 1974 AMC Hornet hatch...
  floor boards nearly gone with rust by the time I got rid of it...
  also seemed to constantly have electrical and timing issues.
  Did make use of the fold down rear compartment a time or two though
  
• queencitybuckeye

  My first and worst - baby poop green 1972 Chevy Vega. So bad I was jealous of my buddy's Pinto.
• kritzell

  

  My first car was a 64 Dodge Dart. YUCK!!!
• j_crazy

  

  1986 Ford Ranger:
  
  
  3 power steering pumps and 3 serpentine belts in 1 year.
• Sage

  

  
• McFly1955

  

  92 buick regal....I'm 23 years old now. Had the car from 16-18 years old....Transmission went out.
  
  It was a gradual demise, the car would just shut off at intersections, then it would hesitate a bit when trying to accelerate, then it would hesitate a LOT when trying to accelerate, which made driving it very dangerous. Everything shut off one day while driving 35mph or so on a busy road, steering went out, brakes weren't doing crap, but I managed to safely pull it in a lot behind a Christian book store....Towed it home, 2 mechanics looked at it and said it would need $1500+ of work, sold it to some guy for $300 who wanted to rebuild it, bought a new car...
• Buckeye2B

  1976 Fiat X 1/9. I bought it in response to losing the purchase of a sweeeet MG midget during my college years. These things were notorious for vapor lock, and it had the mechanical fuel pump replaced with an electric one. Even then, it never quite ran right. I took it to college to have a sweet ride, but it ended up being a pain in the backside and cost me more than it was worth to try to keep it on the road.
  
  
  
  The other nightmare vehicle was a 1988 Ford Bronco II. Bought it just to use as a 4WD utility vehicle, but the 1.9 liter engines were horrible for compression issues. Unbeknownst to me, the heads were cracked and got worse as I drove it. $1300 to replace them, and a year later, I had to replace the engine because the new heads from Jaspers in Indiana, did the same damn thing. There went another $1000 dropping in a used engine, and not three months later, the heads on the used engine did it too. Bottom line, was that I needed to drop a larger engine in that fat little Bronco II, but by that time, I had had enough. I junked it.
  
  
• The Giss

  Oh, didn't realize this would be about cars. Never mind.
• Tim Tebow

  First car: 1993 Pontiac Grand am WORST
  
  
  
  2nd ride: 1995 Chrysler LeBaron BAD
  
  
  
  Current ride: 2002 Dodge Stratus GOOD
  
  
• GoChiefs

  

  My first car..an 88 Pontiac 6000..well..just look at it..'nuff said.
  
  
  
  2001 Chevy Impala..had 45,000 miles on it when the motor blew up. That's what I get for buying GM.
  
  
• noreply66

  Bought my first car in 1966 and have had several since and the only one that ,what you can say,gave me trouble was a 1999 Cougar. Seemed like every three month a was having to put money into it.
• GRAYWOLF

  

  
  
  Honest, used 1976 paid 3800 in 1978. My first car then a wife and four kids later, I have no car, lol how you think a ugly guy like me found a wife,
• said_aouita

  

  
  
  I bought a black EXP turbo at a car auction pretty cheap in high school. Within a few months it had a hole in one of the cylinders the size of a half dollar. That particular afternoon, River Rd. did not have any mosquitoes....
• Rod_Belding

  

  The Giss wrote: Oh, didn't realize this would be about cars. Never mind.

  Haha.... ohhhhhhhh yehhhhhhhhh
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  1976 Volkswagen Rabbit Diesel.
  
  I liked the car itself, but the thing ate head gaskets (three in the five years I owned it, and needed a new exhaust system about every spring. Plus - I had to keep the block heater plugged in all winter long.
• brutus161

  

  
  
  1978 AMC Concord. My parents took my my money and bought me this car. I was sooooooo pissed.