What is the most goofy car you have owned?

[Little6pack]

What is the most goofy car you owned? How did it look & run?

Mine was a 1973 V-8 Vega wagon that I owned back in 1980.

Someone installed a 4bbl 350 sbc, th350, TA Shaker scoop, Thrush side pipes. This car looked like a crayola cryon box. It was fun for stop light action. The best was beating up on the 77 to 80 TA's.

This car was a 14.5 runner for having no performace parts.

 

[at7we2]

1981 Chevrolet Citation (remember those??? )

it was a 2-door hatchback in "Turd Brown Metallic" with "Prosthetic Beige" vinyl interior and a goofy sideways DIN and 1/2 factory AM radio.

as if all that wasn't bad enough mine was a 4-banger with an auto trans. those cars were roughly the same size and weight as the G-bodies of the same vintage. If anyone of you have ever driven a late 70's or early 80's N/A v6 G-body and thought it was a DOG, imagine the same vehicle *minus* another two cylinders!!! damn thing couldn't get out of it's own way!!! I abused the hell out of that car! That auto trans. in that car was good for approximately 4 neutral-drops before requiring another rebuild.

One evening I decided to "top-out" the car and see just what it would do, and folks, let me tell you, it didn't do much!!! On an absolutely flat, straight road it would hit about 85 mph and then, with those four little cylinders screaming bloody-murder, it would try to down-shift but only momentarily, then upshift for a few seconds then down-shift, and so on. So that was it, 85 (maybe 87) mph! That's all she had in her and it took a month of Sundays to get THAT!

what a turd that thing was! Oh, but I forgot to mention, it *DID* have factory "rallye wheels"!! :biggrin: :biggrin:

 

[Raven]

1974 Pontiac Astre (sp?) Wagon (same as the Vega). I sold my '73 Z-28 Baldwin Motion clone because I was getting married and bought a '70 Cutlass S with the 350 4bbl/4 speed and drove it until the clutch went out and a guy asked me to sell it to him. So, I sold it and bought the POS Astre.

In performance desperation, I even considered putting Baldwin Motion stripes on it. Ugh!

See what desperate stupidity and listening to women when it comes to car buying decisions gets you?

 

[Pronto]

Hey, Darren was thin back then! I see it had the manditory Playboy airfreshener. I remember you just spinning the tire with the open rear axle at a stoplight. I also remember you driving with a coolant leak until it all leaked out and it knocked.

 

[Little6pack]

Hey, Darren was thin back then! I see it had the manditory Playboy airfreshener. I remember you just spinning the tire with the open rear axle at a stoplight. I also remember you driving with a coolant leak until it all leaked out and it knocked.

Yeah that was the only photo I could muster up of yee ole vega.

Yup stupid people (like myself) did stupid things as most young folks do.
One time the hub cap came flying off. You had to roll the vega than stab the throttle.
One time the torque twisted the hood & the scoop fell in because it was attached to the hood & not the motor.

 

[BuickMike]

My first car was a '77 Toyota Celica hatch back. That car was a serious POS and had over 200K miles on it. My dad bought it for me off of a guy named Habib who lived at some church. It was blue with playboy bunnies etched into the quarter windows. I covered them up with NOS stickers. It was an auto too, and I never knew it had OD until one day when we were being chased by some punks and I was all out of gear at 75mph. Then the miracle happened, it kicked into 4th and pulled all the way to 110. I had nice stereo in that crap wagon too. Alpine deck, mids, tweets, and 2 12" Lanzar subs powered by Hifonics amps. The tranny soon gave up and I swapped in a 4 speed manual out of a Toyota truck. The rear end ratio was so low that I only used first gear for quick take offs. That thing was quick out of the hole with those gears though. I toasted a buddy's 85 300ZX auto. I also cut off the muffler to put on a glasspack and wired the second barrel on the carb so it was full manual.

Later I sold it to a couple guys who cut the roof off with a sawzall and I think the car lasted them a month

 

[Gn-ing]

What is the most goofy car you owned? How did it look & run?

Mine was a 1973 V-8 Vega wagon that I owned back in 1980.

Someone installed a 4bbl 350 sbc, th350, TA Shaker scoop, Thrush side pipes. This car looked like a crayola cryon box. It was fun for stop light action. The best was beating up on the 77 to 80 TA's.

This car was a 14.5 runner for having no performace parts.

ours was a 1986 YUGO limo we built in 1991,out of 3 cars..we had it for 10 yrs before selling it

 

[Unsafe6]

1975 MG, stock 350 out of a '79 Vette, added the tunnel ram and stacks for effect.

 

[BIG HEAD CHRIS]

$#!% boxes

My first car was a 81' Plymouth Champ. The "Chump"would seat eight (un) comfortably,and scalled the right front as long as the e-brake was on and you kept the revs up!I also had a 82' cutlass ciera (4 banger) that leaked oil so bad ,that it leaked clean oil on the ground.I wish I still had the "Chump" though.

 

[Rodney87GN]

When I was stationed in Japan a friend of mine gave me a Ford Festiva with a ragtop sunroof. It was a total hooptie but it was reliable as hell. Well the trans was slipping a little but it got me around. And the best part was I got it for free. :biggrin:

 

[BIG HEAD CHRIS]

Quick Vega related story

In the mid-late 70's my uncle was involved in ARCA racing.They always got rent-a-cars durring speed weeks because then you could get full coverage insurance for a dollar a day extra.Game on!He once rented a brand new Vega wagon replete with woodsides and the optional rallye fun pack.Within a block of the rental agency ,my brother manages to break a motor mount neutral dropping it.Every time you got on the gas the 4-banger would torque over and the clutch fan would wizz the hood.My uncle also drove from Orlando (where it was rented)to Daytona in first gear,on the expressway.It dieseled and shook for ten minutes when he shut it off and managed to literally melt the cat converter off of it.Moral...Don't buy rental cars!

 

[derek]

1981 Chevrolet Citation (remember those??? )

it was a 2-door hatchback in "Turd Brown Metallic" with "Prosthetic Beige" vinyl interior and a goofy sideways DIN and 1/2 factory AM radio.

as if all that wasn't bad enough mine was a 4-banger with an auto trans. those cars were roughly the same size and weight as the G-bodies of the same vintage. If anyone of you have ever driven a late 70's or early 80's N/A v6 G-body and thought it was a DOG, imagine the same vehicle *minus* another two cylinders!!! damn thing couldn't get out of it's own way!!! I abused the hell out of that car! That auto trans. in that car was good for approximately 4 neutral-drops before requiring another rebuild.

One evening I decided to "top-out" the car and see just what it would do, and folks, let me tell you, it didn't do much!!! On an absolutely flat, straight road it would hit about 85 mph and then, with those four little cylinders screaming bloody-murder, it would try to down-shift but only momentarily, then upshift for a few seconds then down-shift, and so on. So that was it, 85 (maybe 87) mph! That's all she had in her and it took a month of Sundays to get THAT!

what a turd that thing was! Oh, but I forgot to mention, it *DID* have factory "rallye wheels"!! :biggrin: :biggrin:

LOL Thanks ,I just laughed my head off!

 

[cwelk87gn]

I guess it would be a toss up between the 1984 SAAB 900 turbo and a 1971 Triumph Spitfire mk4. I thought they were cool at the time, and I still admire the older pre-GM SAABs for thier interesting if somewhat quirky engineering.

 

[fighterjet gn]

from 1978 to 1981

i had a 74 pontiac lemans with fog lights & 8 other lights in the front, zodiac sign on the back window, playboy stickers on the side windows & an atlas hood ornament that lit up, not only did this car looked liked a christmas tree in the front but it also looked like the cadillac in "ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK". an ex-girlfriend never wanted to be seen in that car.

 

[FlyinGN]

I had an 80 version same color combo BUT it was a v6 4 speed manual trans one with factory tach and gauges,. it was a pretty quick lil car..

I had a 77 Pinto wagon squire (fake woood grain) with a 2.8 v-6.. Had some weird ones..

1981 Chevrolet Citation (remember those??? )

it was a 2-door hatchback in "Turd Brown Metallic" with "Prosthetic Beige" vinyl interior and a goofy sideways DIN and 1/2 factory AM radio.

as if all that wasn't bad enough mine was a 4-banger with an auto trans. those cars were roughly the same size and weight as the G-bodies of the same vintage. If anyone of you have ever driven a late 70's or early 80's N/A v6 G-body and thought it was a DOG, imagine the same vehicle *minus* another two cylinders!!! damn thing couldn't get out of it's own way!!! I abused the hell out of that car! That auto trans. in that car was good for approximately 4 neutral-drops before requiring another rebuild.

One evening I decided to "top-out" the car and see just what it would do, and folks, let me tell you, it didn't do much!!! On an absolutely flat, straight road it would hit about 85 mph and then, with those four little cylinders screaming bloody-murder, it would try to down-shift but only momentarily, then upshift for a few seconds then down-shift, and so on. So that was it, 85 (maybe 87) mph! That's all she had in her and it took a month of Sundays to get THAT!

what a turd that thing was! Oh, but I forgot to mention, it *DID* have factory "rallye wheels"!! :biggrin: :biggrin:

 

[kh440]

1979 Olds Cutlass Cruiser (wagon). Dark Blue with RED bucket seats.

 

[INEEDAGN]

My very first car (truck?) was an 83 dodge rampage, brown with gold trim. In case you didn't know, a rampage was a front wheel drive pickup, basically a charger with a bed molded into it. Total P.O.S., and talk about ugly. Actually turned out to be a very practical machine, got awesome mileage and I tried as hard as any 16 year old could to kill it and never succeeded. Sold it to my uncle who drove it till it literally rusted in half. They had it geared right, you could pull 65 mph in third and still have two gears to go. If you'd convert one to shelby turbo specs, you'd have a scary machine.

I love driving junk. I've had more fun in cars worth less than $500 than I could ever dream of having in my GN. It's the most fun when all your friends have junk too and you can have a rolling demo derby on public roads. Ever been rear ended while doing 65?

 

[at7we2]

I love driving junk. I've had more fun in cars worth less than $500 than I could ever dream of having in my GN. It's the most fun when all your friends have junk too and you can have a rolling demo derby on public roads. Ever been rear ended while doing 65?

AMEN BROTHA'!!! :biggrin: although I'm not sure about the rolling demo derby,

It's also handy during those stressfull fits of "road rage". It's nice to be able to say, "GO AHEAD AND HIT ME!!! - ISN'T IT OBVIOUS I NEED THE MONEY!?!?!?"

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Would have to say my first car. 1966 Ford Falcon, 6 cylinder with auto trans. Worst thing was it was a four door. Got it for $1! First thing you had to put on a car back in 1974 was Gabriel HiJacker air shocks. Jacked it way up in the air along with some leaf spring shackles, looked cool with the 13" tires. :biggrin:

Ended up putting seats in it from a 67 T-bird and transplanted a 289 with 3 speed manual transmission into it. Promptly grenaded the 6 cylinder rearend. Bolted in a 8" rear from a Fairlane.

When I was done with the car it really wasn't too bad expect for the extra set of doors. Did learn how to do an engine swap and how to convert from an auto to manual trans. Once I got it painted and some nice wheels and tires on it I wasn't ashamed to be seen in it.

 

[UNGN]

1970 Plymouth Barracuda.

Factory FM3 Pink with a slant 6.

Goofy. I always had weird cars, but people would ask "what the hell is that?". Paid $400 for it, sold it for $1000 after I stripped the good stuff out of it. If it had a hemi, I could have sold it on E-bay today for $100,000 in the same crappy condition I sold it for 10 years ago.