Ugly Cars

[Rustyt1953]

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.....

 

[Salty RI]

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

 

[THE PILGRIM]

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

 

[Arik]

I kinda like the look of that Valiant.

All my cars have been 1992 or newer.

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[shouldazagged]

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.

 

[arjay]

My VW van reached the stage where the sliding door stayed locked.If you opened it,it fell off [emoji33]

 

[ParadiseRoad]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMdgOF0e-lI[/ame]

 

[old bear]

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

 

[ParadiseRoad]

 

[Salty RI]

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.

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.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

 

[steamloco76]

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...

 

[ParadiseRoad]

 

[PatriotX]

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

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 !

 

[PatriotX]

Oy vey.


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

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...the proud designers...

 

[bigwheelzip]

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.

 

[Lee's Landing Billy]

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.

 

[Maddog 521]

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

 

[SC_Mike]

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.)