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DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 8:21 AM
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they were basic transportation, mostly made of plastic, and although they were common as dogs, you will almost certainly never see one at a car show now, because they have all met the crusher man. I'll kick things off with my list.
1986 Chevy Celebrity
1991 4 door Chevy Lumina
1993 Grand Caravan minivan
1995 Mazda MX-3 (This one was a HUGE disappointment. It was rated 29/36 mpg. Mine never got over 25 mpg, period.)
1995 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera (We put almost 100,000 miles on that thing, and the front end bounced for every one of them. Never could figure out why.)
1999 Buick LeSabre
2003 Buick Rendezvous (Winner as the #1 POS I have ever owned.)
2014 Ford Focus (Traded quickly because of automatic transmission problems)
Some later vehicles were very good, but also will meet the crusher man before they would ever see a car show:
2007 Honda Odyssey minivan: This was a great vehicle, it was loaded with just about every option they had, other than the "Touring" tires. Rear DVD player with headphones kept kids from asking "Are we there yet" about a zillion times.
2016 Honda CRV: A great, reliable family vehicle, but it sounded and pulled like an under powered farm tractor.
What are some of your "forgettable" vehicles? I know most of you on here are not old enough to have accumulated an entire car lot worth of lemons, like me.
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 8:26 AM
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I thought this was an EV poast. Silly me.
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HAHA!
Jun 20, 2022, 8:32 AM
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 8:35 AM
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86 mazda b2000 pickup from the north. No floorboards, half a bed, one complete door. Thing wouldn’t die. I paid $350 for it, put a hundred dollar battery in it and drove it for two years trouble free. This was around 2005.
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CU Medallion [65467]
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I know exactly how it looked. I don't think I have ever seen
Jun 20, 2022, 8:41 AM
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an early "fureign" pickup that was all there. Same for any mid 60s to late 70s Ford or GM truck, too. Metal had no rust protection whatsoever, and design caused severe rustout over the wheel wells, especially.
My dad had a little Izuzu P'UP diesel pickup. (Their version of a Chevy LUV). He put so many miles on that thing, he literally wore out three speedometers. (The speedos would make about 160,000 miles and then crap out. Do that math for how many miles were on that thing. The little diesel just kept rolling along.)
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This talk about all the cars you've had reminds me of a
Jun 20, 2022, 8:41 AM
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lunch I had with one of my best mortgage brokers about 15 years ago. Keep in mind, I buy a car, take good care of it, get miles on it, and then go buy another new car. Anyway, we are eating lunch and it hit me like a ton of bricks...I said to my mortgage broker,"Dadgum Craig, do you realize you have had THREE WIVES SINCE I TRADED CARS!"....I kid you not. This is a true story!!! He was trading wives about every 25,000 miles...
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CU Medallion [65467]
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Wow, talk about being upside down on your loan! He must
Jun 20, 2022, 8:44 AM
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have been taking a page out of Johnny Carson's book. All his wives weren't named some version of Joan or Joanna, were they?
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Re: This talk about all the cars you've had reminds me of a
Jun 20, 2022, 8:45 AM
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reminds me of that joke about trading your woman in for the newer model. I knew a guy just like that, we kept getting older but his women stayed the same age.
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CU Medallion [65467]
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Elizabeth Taylor actually said that exact thing on Johnny
Jun 20, 2022, 8:48 AM
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Carson one time. Carson was kidding her about how many times she had been married. She said that her men stayed consistently around the age of 40. When she was 20, they were 40, and when she was 60, they were STILL 40.
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Lewis Grizzard: Nah, I'm never getting married again... I'm
Jun 20, 2022, 2:35 PM
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just gonna go find a woman who hates my guts and give her a house.
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CU Medallion [65467]
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But, he actually did, only 4 days before his death. I guess
Jun 20, 2022, 4:43 PM
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he figured she would have a hard time collecting any alimony if it didn't work out.
Grizzard is the only Georgia Bulldog fan I ever missed.
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 9:07 AM
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Wow. What a list of junk.
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CU Medallion [65467]
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Ed Zachary. That's kinda the point of this poast.
Jun 20, 2022, 9:17 AM
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We can't all own BMW's. Although, due to engine issues, some of them are junk, as well. Very expensive junk.
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 9:21 AM
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78 Olds Cutless Supreme
84 Mazda B2200 Diesel pickup
Bunch of honda accords
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 9:29 AM
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I think the "little" Olds Cutlasses of the 80s and 90s could populate the list all by themselves. They were a DEFINITE throwaway.
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A 1976 Ford Mustang II***
Jun 20, 2022, 9:49 AM
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CU Medallion [65467]
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Ah, yes, the car that nearly killed the Mustang name.
Jun 20, 2022, 9:52 AM
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Pintos by another name.
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 10:00 AM
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I had an 80's Plymouth Reliant K car that wouldn't die even though I tried my best to kill it.
The driver's door was almost off of the hinges so I tied a rope to the handle on the inside of the door and the other end to the leg of the front seat so the door wouldn't fly open. Of course, this meant that I had to enter and exit thru the passenger door.
The headliner had come loose from the roof and would lay across my head so I took a bunch of tacks and tried to secure it to the roof.
The AC and Heat did not work.
The radio stopped working.
The paint was peeling off.
The driver's side window didn't work.
I hit a skunk one day it basically disintegrated on the underside of the vehicle. The smell never went away. I would park at the end of any parking lot so people wouldn't know where the smell was coming from. I'm not really sure if I smelled skunky or not.
Finally, one day the transmission literally feel into the road and I coasted to the center lane. I called a friend to come get me and I left the K car sitting in the center lane with the key in it. I called a salvage company and they came and hauled it away. Never saw the car again once my buddy picked me up.
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CU Medallion [65467]
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Ah, Lee I-a-croaker. Invented the Mustang for Ford, and then
Jun 20, 2022, 1:17 PM
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the "K" cars for Chrysler. Who do you think got the better end of THAT deal?
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 10:19 AM
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Dodge 400 K late 80s or early 90s model. Just total junk.
Hyundai Excel early 80s model. Burnt a quart of oil a month.
1977 Chevy pickup - 3 on the tree. I bought in 1987. Had been wrecked and rear bumper was a round steel bar. Rust all over but it would still haul a ton of gravel. I’m not a big guy so I used to climb inside the engine compartment and sit on the wheel well to change the plugs.
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Yes, the 1983 MotorTrend Car of the Year... Renault Alliance.....
Jun 20, 2022, 10:42 AM
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I had a '72 Nova that lasted me thru HS & CU (class of '79) and a few years after that. When it finally died, I bought this piece of junk. It ranks right up there with the Pinto, Gremlin, Vega, Chevette, etc. Everything started breaking down almost immediately after I bought it. And the only authorized Renault dealership anywhere around was Harbin Bros on Poinsett Hwy... and they were totally clueless on how to fix anything on it. More that once I was told they were "waiting on a special tool from France". It was obvious they had just added the Renault line and had zero experience on repair & maintenance. Several times they had it for weeks and I had no transportation...
Traded it in on a '85 Toyota Camry and never looked back. Have only driven Toyotas or Hondas ever since, except for a couple of BMWs because the wife wanted one.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/why-renault-alliance-was-1983-motortrend-car-of-the-year/
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LOL. My older brother and my younger brother both owned
Jun 20, 2022, 1:19 PM
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ONE BMW each. That was enough. I learned from their experiences, and never wanted one.
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Oh, they were fun to drive and looked cool and all that...
Jun 20, 2022, 2:40 PM
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but high maintenance and expensive to keep running. Especially compared to the Hondas & Toyotas... no comparison.
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Younger bro had an older 318I with a mechanical fuel
Jun 20, 2022, 4:40 PM
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injected 4-Cylinder. He decided to take it in for a "tune-up". When he went to pick it up, they handed him a bill in xs of $2000! They had overhauled the injection pump, and a whole bunch more stuff. All he wanted was spark plugs and maybe a new timing belt? He almost went to war on them over that deal.
Older bro hit a pothole up in New Joisey where he lived for over 20 years. It broke one of the unique cast aluminum wheels. A new one was over $500. (Without a tire.)
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 10:51 AM
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married into a Oldsmobile Cutlass Calis
strong motor
broke us trying to get it to 100,000 miles
started shutting down at red lights, 3 dealerships could not find the issue
you could put it in park, start, rev the engine, slam it into drive and off you go to the next light
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 11:29 AM
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In 1984 I married into a 1977 Chevy Impala. The car was a tank but there is a good story with it. My best man at our wedding bought a 50 pound bag of rice and that, along with all the other rice others brought ended up in that car. Rice 3-4 inches thick in the floorboards, etc. When we sold the car about 4 years later we had to tell the buyer that if you turn the AC fan on high it would still occasionally spit a piece of rice out at you. That’s what best friends are for. He’s still one of my best friends and we still laugh about the rice 38 years later.
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Our 1995 Cutlass Ciera cruise control quit working one time.
Jun 20, 2022, 11:46 AM
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Since I wrench on my own cars, I had acquired a set of factory service manuals. It took a LOT of reading to finally diagnose the problem. What was it?
The manual kept referring to a CHMSL. I finally figured out that meant "Center High Mounted Stop Light." In other words, the "3rd brake light". Yep, GM in their infinite wisdom had made the 3rd brake light bulb a prerequisite for the cruise control to work. That bulb burns out, no more cruise control.
Replaced a 99 cent bulb, and Voila! Cruise control was fixed.
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Every vehicle I've ever owned
Jun 20, 2022, 11:55 AM
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The original Datsun off the boat. Model before the B-210.
The original Toyota off the boat. Model before the Corolla
A Buick Electra 225. Caught on fire in Cross Anchor on the way home from the '87 USuC loss
Plymouth Horizon
Dodge Dakota
Dodge Neon
2 Ford Rangers I put 300K miles on each
Another Dodge Neon I still drive. 20 years old and still chugging
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 11:59 AM
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1991 Chevy Corsica. Had a year and 15k miles on it when purchased as young fam get around. Fortunately was still under warranty when the transmission gave at 45k miles, then traded it in 35k miles later when it gave out once again. After an equally putrid 1984 Ford Mustang two cars prior, I went with a 1995 Nissan Pathfinder, got 12 years and 240k miles til its head gaskets blew, donated the carcass, and picked up a 2007 Toyota Camry that I've had since. Runs like a charm still (knock on wood). So 5 American made cars prior that lasted 9 years and 2 Jap cars since that have made it 27+.
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 12:14 PM
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1) '98 Nissan Frontier 5-speed. This was around '08. The dash went out...everything except the check engine light and odometer broke. Wasn't sure how many times the odo had already rolled over. It was either around 298 or 398 when it finally bit the dust. The last 30k miles I drove with no starter....just roll started it everywhere since I knew it was on it's way out.
2) '99 Hyundai Accent 5-speed. Paid $1600 for it in 2015. Drove it for 3.5 years doing no maintenance other than oil changes and new tires. New tires only cost $30 each. AC was still cold. Every door handle was broken...only the driver door would open from outside. Every piece of paneling on the thing was busted and dented to all hades. Looked like the previous owner tried to fix a dent on the front 1/4 panel with a ball peen hammer. God that car was ugly but I drove it like it owed me something.
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 12:16 PM
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1987 Subaru Justy. Just a total piece of crap of a car. I recall driving down the road one day in the in the rain and a windshield wiper just flew off. Another time I hit a railroad track and the trim on the left side the car fell off. The car was only three years old at this time. Then I hit a small pothole and it collapsed the left front rim, and at that point it was time to get a different car
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 12:26 PM
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I had a 1972 Chevy Vega with an aluminum block. You put in a quart of oil with each half-tank of gas.
Aluminum is like plastic. Only different.
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Machine shops had a cottage industry for awhile there,
Jun 20, 2022, 1:15 PM
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boring out Vega aluminum blocks and putting a steel sleeve in each cylinder, then boring them back to "standard". The aluminum casting was so poor, they all wore out. I believe GM actually started producing the later ones WITH steel sleeves. But, by then the damage to the reputation was already done.
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 12:34 PM
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1974 Vega, '75 Nova and '80 Monza. I hit the trifecta in my teenage years.
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My 2021 Bentley - got rid of it when the new car smell......
Jun 20, 2022, 1:44 PM
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went away.
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Re: DISPOSABLE cars you have owned. By disposable, I mean that
Jun 20, 2022, 5:02 PM
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1956 Renault Dalphne
1963 Ford Falcon
1964 Corvair
1966 Buick Lesabre
1967 Dodge Polara
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It wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility to see one or
Jun 20, 2022, 5:05 PM
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more of the cars on your list at a local car show. Unless they had two too many doors.
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Re: It wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility to see one or
Jun 20, 2022, 5:34 PM
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Can’t remember what year, but an early 1970s Toyota Corolla. Never changed the oil. When it got to the 3000 mile oil change time the engine would blow. Had 4 new engines and after the 4th one I got rid of that crap car. Never again will I buy another Toyota.
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Every crappy car I ever had I sold to
Jun 20, 2022, 5:37 PM
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Tigerbalm1®
He’s still bragging about his Oldsmobile with 24.9% APR
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Re: Every crappy car I ever had I sold to
Jun 20, 2022, 10:04 PM
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I actually got some more APR's this year, and it is a 1972 AMC Javelin, thankyou.
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