I'm sure we have all owned some cool cars in our lives but, how many times have we been reduced to driving rolling canker sores?

You know, the kind where people pulled up, along side of you, and shook their heads or giggled causing you to employ the standard equipped fake nose glasses.

In high school, my friends parents had cool cars for them to drive. I had to show up in dad's Valiant equipped with chick repellent.



The gas crunch, college and bar tabs exceeding my gig pay sentenced me to this mobile "kick me" sign.


I showed you mine.....

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That would have been a lot cooler with a 440 under the hood.

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If I should borrow this Stud PU,
I could win the ugly truck contest!

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I kinda like the look of that Valiant.

All my cars have been 1992 or newer.

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Mercifully, I don't have a picture of the used mint-green 1975 AMC Pacer I bought while drunk.

An aesthetic atrocity, and a calamity looking for a place to happen.

My brother kidded me about that car for the rest of his life.

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My VW van reached the stage where the sliding door stayed locked.If you opened it,it fell off

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During early 1970, I was reduced to driving a sky blue Checker marathon. Not a bad car, just not a way cool.

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A friend of mine, his wife wanted a Pacer wagon so bad, he said if you want one go buy it, the day after she got it she went to pick up one of her friends to go shopping, her friend took one look at it and said what an ugly car, his wife said yeah it's Tom's and never drove it again.

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The first car I drove was a rusted out White 1978 Subaru 4x4 Wagon with one dark blue rear door on the driver's side. It had metal tape for front fender tops. The floor pan rotted away so badly that the front seats fell through. We "fixed" it by having a heavy pipe fitted between the seat belt anchors, then had the ends flattened and drilled. Then the seat belt bolts held the pipe, and the seats! made a new floor pan from fiberglass matting and old newspaper press plates.

The unibody finally got so bad that the doors wouldn't close if the wheels weren't all on a completely level surface. The death knell occurred when I was driving home from high school one day and the shifter linkage broke off inside the transmission. I then had second gear only and no reverse. 35 MPH top speed.

Picture this with rust along all the door bottoms, rusty wheels and a flattened back bumper...

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My buddy had a Marathon that was tubbed, caged, and sported an 8-71 blower growing out of the hood.


Anything can be cool with a huge honkin' V-8...even a Gremlin !

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Our 1975 Pacer could smell train tracks, and stall out on them.

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Another vote for the Pacer. Hideously ugly and mechanically awful as well.
I rented one once. It's rear end would jump to the side if you hit any kind of bump while in a curve. Pothole strewn traffic circles were death defying.

Ya'll had some UGLY cars. While I've always thought the 1963 Buick Riviera was America's most beautiful car, the ugliest TO ME was the 1959 Ford. The symbol of recession in America.

My first one was a green 1955 Mercury Monterey four door sedan. It was unbelievable.

That's right ladies, I was the total package. You get me AND the 1964 Olds F/85 Wagon.



Four wheels of birth control right there.

(Not my car, just a pic of the web.)

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While some of the older cars certainly are right up there in the "Most Ugly Car" contest. My entries are just portions of certain cars. I have been a fan of Lexus autos since they were introduced and my 'like' of them has just gotten stronger until this year. The Lexus 2016 front end treatment look to me like a face picture of Darth Vader, at least in the darker painted cars. I can't believe that a sophisticated design department was allowed to get a way with them actually producing an otherwise fabulous car with such a downer of a front end look.

And, Honda has produced a larger SUV that if it is dark blue or worse yet black in color looks just like a hearse for midgets. What a styling mistake.

My very first girl friend in HS drove an old Studebaker that had an actual propeller on a center fixture of the grill work. I wouldn't ride in it let alone drive it. When we went on a driving date, I insisted we take my 1946 Ford 1/2 ton pickup. It had dual exhausts and when washed and polished that stock Forest Green paint look pretty nice. .... :-)

No reason to wonder why AMC is gone.

Wait. You rich fools had wheels and are making fun of them? I had a thing called shoes (remember, everyone in Kentucky doesn't have them.) Shoes are used to walk, the lowest form of transportation. I'd gladly have taken any of the above rolling stock when I was in school. They all beat hoofing it, rain or shine, cold or snow. Several things alerted me to it not being too terrible. Once we were sitting around after school talking. Just having fun when one of the jerks with cool wheels tried to embarrass me because I didn't have a car. The prettiest of the lot told him to get lost, no one sitting here had a car with them. Put him down fairly well.

Another girl, also an eye catcher walked too. I got the nerve to ask to walk her home. She said sure. It wasn't much out of my way. Her mother saw us and thought it was cute. Besides, she wasn't allowed to accept rides from boys. Turned out to be a big advantage.

Then my friend Mike had daughters. The oldest couldn't wait to get her drivers license. But near the end of the summer, she didn't have a ride of her own. So at supper one night she asked what she was going to drive to school. Guess she wasn't a planner. They just looked at her an said "the Cherokee". She was crushed. It was the kind of ugly brown they came in. But it ran well, didn't rattle or have rust. So the first day of school she got there really early (because it was direct, the bus went a winding route that took forever.) So being embarassed at its ugliness, she parked way out in the lot.

They all came out together and as they got to the parking lot, one of the girls yelled "hey who has the Jeep!". Then it was cool and they wanted to take a ride in it. I'm guessing the girl who yelled was probably on foot, so anything on wheels was great to her.

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You would have loved the Pink Panther, my 1959 Galaxie. It had a five-tone paint job and bodywork that said "nuthin' left to lose". It had a good set of snows and a dago rake, chrome shift knob, Town and Country tuning on the radio and four-way power seats that worked. The headlights were hung with baling wire and tracked back and forth over the landscape as I prowled the bumpy streets of South Minneapolis. I called it the Marauder Beam.

The Pink Panther was always ready to take its place in traffic, and everybody gave it a lot of room.

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My first car was a hand me down brown 1977 Ford Pinto, the kinda car you stopped at a gas station to check the gas and fill the oil. It did have a Radioshack 8 track player, so I guess it was cool.

...I bet the Nash Metropolitan was a real chick magnet...

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At least some of those old cars had some style, unlike today!

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...of course your real buddy doesn't care what your car looks like...

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Look's like the motorcycle fell of

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I had this car-a 69 4 door Valiant same color. I loved the dern thing.

Dated Patti and Alisyn while having this car:
Patti kinda looked like this-only had Auburn colored hair:

Alisyn looked like this:


Now im driving this:

My next door neighbor Mr. Archie Klassen, had two of these-one same color as pic-the other was a light green.


Now that im thinking of it--I miss the Klassens. Archie was a WWII/Korean war Navy vet.

Isnt that a Messerschmidt?

It has an interesting story for how bad it looks.

But my main 'Go Home Alone' car was a 1974 AMC Hornet (anti-chick green paint) that got me where I was going for years, though by the time I got rid of it it was a motorized junkpile.

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...apparently a chick magnet...except she was in the backseat by herself...

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This what happens when you pass gas in a Smart car

^^^ That is to funny.
I have to say even though Rambler{ American Motors} had a few really ugly cars they sure sold a heck of a lot of them.
Oh and BTW there were no good looking American made cars made in 1959 or 1960.
My first car was a 1959 Morris Minor 1000 I paid $150 for. They cost $1195 brand new and now some are selling for thousands.
morris minor 1000 Photo #02

All jokes aside American Motors made a decent police car out of the Ambassador. LAPD used several ran good weak brakes.
I worked on an department that had 1 with 401 cu in engine.

The cop show series of long ago they drove a cop car just like that one. ^^

...Cadillac won the "Fin Wars" in 1959...

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...Buick's fins fell over in 1959...and it grew a pair in the front too...

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...Oldsmobile was for the non-fin GM buyer in '59...

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...Pontiac's fins shrunk too...but they decided...if two were good...four had to be better...

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I'd been working for a few years when at 16 (1971) my dad gave me $200 for a car. Bought a 1964 Chevy Custom (ugly to me) with a broken piston. Fixed it, sold the car for $400 then bought a 1966 GTO with a blown engine. Replaced the bottom end and had a tri-power Goat at 16! Not an ugly car.
The other car I looked at was a 1959 Chevy Bel Air in perfect condition for $400. That was the ugliest car I could imagine, so I passed. Now I've grown to love the unique look of that Chevy. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

...but the entry level Chevy had fins...almost wings...

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Even though you don't see many of them in the USA, the Citroen 2CV deserves "Honorable Mention" in this thread. At first glance, it seems a homely silhouette, but it's myriad mechanical quirks can become quite endearing.

...George Lucas in the middle...Richard Dreyfus in the Citroen 2CV on the right shooting American Graffiti...I think that was the first 2CV I ever saw...

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Dick is spot on here. In the UK you don't get a sniff at driving a car (except in a farmer's field) until you are 17. At 16 you could ride a 50cc moped but could not take anybody on the back, not that you would try on a Honda Step-thru.

My first couple of cars were UK GM models. The first one was not ugly, but it was so anonymous pedestrians could not see it and other drivers fell into comas on first contact. I think it was the British equivalent of the Valiant in that respect. I should have been contracting to the local drug cops, because the dealers would never have noticed I was following them.

My second car was in the "never seen one like that before" category being the rare-ish coupe of a four door model. However, once the maker (Vauxhall) was revealed, all interest stopped.

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I should be so lucky. Driving a '95 Saturn. Beige.