Your Worst Car Ever? Tell us! It’s Worst Car Week here at Car Talk Plaza. After all the rust-buckets and heaps of scrap we’ve owned, we managed to narrow it down to just one each. Improbably, we realize… but we did it. Here they are! [Junk yard treasures] " T…

Out of all the cars I have owen from rebuilt wrecks to customs. The 2001 4.0 V6 Ranger I had was by far the worse. Gas milage would go from 12 -18 (mostly 12). It was at the dealer for warranty work for this problem at least once a month. It had a miss at idle after it got 15000 miles on it. Never d…

A 1957 Plymouth by far. In 2.5 years at college the front torsion bars snapped, the wiper motor failed, I needed rings and valves, a rear spring snapped, and the floor rusted out so badly that the front seat fell through it. The windshield leaked prodigiously; I could have used wipers on the inside …

1975 Fiat X19. Need I say more?

A girlfriends 72 vega, fix after fix, until something went wrong with the aluminum block and killed the car for good.

I can’t say the following 2 were bad cars; just cars that served a purpose and were not liked very much. A 58 Thunderbird with a 300 Horsepower (allegedly) 352 and the car was a tank. Driving down the road one day I felt the rear end suddenly sag and start grinding. A look underneath showed the rea…

My very first (and very worst!) car: a very (old, used) cherry red 1971 Datsun 4 cylinder/manual choke death trap! Which, ironically, got plowed away by a road grader during a blizzard–deposited several blocks away in a snow bank. Ah, those were the days…

I might respectfully add a correction about the 57 Plymouth that was buried. That was Miss Belvedere and it was buried in Tulsa. It’s about as tragic a tale in the auto world as can be. Much was made on TV and even Boyd Coddington showed up to unveil that car at the Civic Center with people flying …

Tulsa’s 1957 Plymouth was buried in mud for 50 years (or muddy water). [image] Tulsa's 1957 Plymouth Becomes a Monument to the Cruel Ravages of Time Well, now it's official. Tulsa's 1957 time capsule was built to withstand a nuclear bomb, but it proved powerless to resist the corrosive ef…

What's Your Worst Car Ever?

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Mamakitty September 8, 2012, 5:51am 11

My worst car? A 1986 Ford Temp. After 3,000 miles, the windshield wipers came on when the headlights were engaged. Okay for driving at night in the rain!

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