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 12-16-2005, 15:46 Post: 121187
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  The Car You Wish You Never Bought

Least favorite three cars in least favorite first order:

1) 1975 Chevy Vega GT -- sport bucket vinyl seats, 4cyl alumumium block literally an old V8 chevy block d=sawn in half, all components sized for a V8, like huge AC compressor that would cause overheating at idle.

2) 1978 Chevy C10 Pickup -- a constant Trans leaker

3) 1963 (?) Chevy II -- the worlds absolutely most boring piece of metal, 2 spd auto ugh ugh


Hmm I just noticed these were all Chevy products. I just have not had good luck with them, in fact I had an accident with a Chevy rental car that was due IMHO to the poor handling of the cars brakes and suspension that I had become unaccustomed to after owning Hondas.

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Wow with my 75 Vega GT that makes three Vega GT's for first place in the worst car challenge.

Seems like a few of us made the same bad decision.






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Of the many bad parts to the Vega, one of the worst was the engine, so maybe the Cosworth engine might of solved some of the shortcomings.

That Vega of mine was a mixed blessing, the brakes were poor and one night I was coming home late and I locked up at about 65 MPH descending a steep mountain road and the poor balance of car threw me into some high speed 360's and I wound up in some guys yard, miraculously without rolling the car (the blessing), and a further miracle that the car had somehow missed more than a half dozen trees, had I hit them I doubt I would be writing this.

When I got my 1981 Honda Accord in 1981 I was going to junk it at 150000 miles, but my neighbor insisted on taking it, he was a handy guy and we discussed the risks. He gave it to his daughter, and the front wheel broke off on the same mountain road I had my spin out on, she was Ok (thank god). After that he junked the car.

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