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  The Car You Wish You Never Bought

1989 Old Cutlas Calais International - 160 hp Quad 4 in it with manual transmission. Not a bad car, but right rear shock was always breaking and leaking oil. Couldn't keep spark plugs in it. Needed new plugs at most 5,000 miles or at least re-gapped. Was better with platinum plugs, but still needed new ones at 7,500-10k miles. Very sucky handling on snow/ice despite front wheel drive. Finally, GM brakes were not good on this car. Bought used, paid too much, had a baby barf smell in it when it would sit in a hot sun.






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Murf, I remember when I did crewing for race teams. Rental cars were fun for us especially when you had two or more to play with. I feel sorry for the people that got them after us. Getting them airborn on the entrance to hotels was popular, speed bumps were fun at 30 mph, etc. We won't even mention the hand parking brake. Good memories...

We even had 1 guy ride in the trunk due to lack of space. He volunteered and never did it again after the speed bumps, spin-outs, curbs, etc. That's what happens when you try to fit 7 crew dogs in one Pontiac Grand Am.






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I forgot about the '86 Ford Bronco II my dad owned. HE had loaned it to a friend whose wife was, um, extremely robust. The result was the passenger seat was deformed. Literaly bent and twisted.

It was not the best vehicle. Course, the way I drove it may have been part of the problem. I'm surprised I never rolled it or wrecked it. I used to get it airborn leaving school in an attempt to get by buddy's head to kit he ceiling. I did get his shoulders pinned to ceiling one time. That was neat! I must have been 3 feet in the air on that one.

But one neat thing about it was the short wheel base. So in 4x4 mode on ice, I could get it to drive sideways. Neat trick.






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