My sister and I shared a ‘75 Olds Vista Cruiser wagon in the early 1980’s during the entirety of our high school years. My parents handed it down to us with 150k miles and rust all over the place. One day I jumped in it and a 15” square of the floorboard fell off onto the exhaust system below. My dad helped me rivet a section of sheetmetal for the repair and we drove it another 2 years.
I had a Plymouth Reliant K, and it was soooo bad.I had a 1982 Dodge 400 K car. This would have been '93-94? I think it had sat for a bit and all the door hinges were sort of rusted. The top was vinyl that was completely dilapidated. I kept it running a couple of years, then the neighbor backed into it and did enough damage that they just gave $1k and I scrapped it for another $200.
Put that and some other savings towards a 1988 Thunderbird. Pretty much all Fords since then.
Calling you Rusty Griswold from now onMy sister and I shared a ‘75 Olds Vista Cruiser wagon in the early 1980’s during the entirety of our high school years. My parents handed it down to us with 150k miles and rust all over the place. One day I jumped in it and a 15” square of the floorboard fell off onto the exhaust system below. My dad helped me rivet a section of sheetmetal for the repair and we drove it another 2 years.
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My Dad had the same one lolYou decide why it the was the worst. It could be because it was ugly, underpowered, unreliable, or anything else. Pictures are a bonus.
I‘ve owned some really bad ones that were mostly company cars. The worst was a 1996 Ford Taurus station wagon that was waiting for me when I got hired and moved to Sacramento by my new employer 3M. It was burgundy red, had a tansmission that was slipping, and the previous sales rep was very large so the drivers seat padding was worn out to the point where I could feel the metal frame. To me it was beyond ugly. I was coming from a Corvette and an Audi Coupe GT before this one. My wife and I were new parents at the time and certainly didn’t have money for a 3rd vehicle so this is what I drove everywhere for almost a year before upgrading to a Dodge minivan.
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The 80’s produced soooo many bad cars. The Reliant K cars were right up there with the GM X bodies being produced at the same time, lol.
My buddy's mom had one of those turbo 4 cylinder Tbird's... Elan or something?
We nicknamed that rusty ‘75 Olds wagon ”The Pig” because it got 12 miles per gallon. If I had a time machine I’d bring my kids back to see how many bad, uncool vehicles I drove before the age of 23. They really don’t know how good they have it.
We’re on our second now. I agree with you, but my wife loves them for some reason. Oh well, at least they’re cheap and plentiful.
Oh, I loved owning them, a ton of fun especially down here with the beaches. 1 I sold before it died, the other two complete electrical system failures.
