What was your favorite old POS Vehicle--which looked bad but ran good.

[Mr.Goat]

A plain Jane 67 Plymouth Fury I , with a 318. It had over 250,000 miles on it when it died. The guy I sold it to took the motor out and put it in his tow truck.

 

[lpearson]

1965 GTO, wish I hadn't sold it.



Lowell

 

[gitchesum]

1979 Ford F-150 with a very well built 460 ci BB.



Used to eat Mustangs for lunch and Corvettes for dinner.



Great sleeper truck though. Two tone green cab with a blue/grey bed. Big 36" mudders on the rear and street tires on front. Bed full of beer cans and anything else that would fit through the rear slider. Won enough money racing to pay for the truck 4 times over.



Not that I ever did anything illegal like street racing or anything like that.

 

[BCook1]

1977 El Camino

Nothing I have ever owned has come close to the reliability of my 77 El Camino. It was ordered by an old man with no options - even was clock delete. He did have power steering, power brakes and a passenger side mirror added but that was it. Has a 250 straight six with a three speed manual on the column and 2. 72 gears - Super Toad. I bought it from a wrecking yard for 550 bucks - 18 years ago. I still have it and it still starts in the middle of the ND winter after sitting for months. Has 207,000 miles on it. It is so rusty, both my feet fit through the floorboard holes. I screwed alum sheeting over the holes - problem solved. It is complete with tow-bar on the front and a rattle can paint job. Actually, I am going to start driving it again after I sell my CTD later this year. At least I will still be driving an in-line 6 motor...

 

[DKayser]

1975 Chrysler Cordoba

What a tank! It had everything except the "Fine Corinthian Leather. " 360 4bbl very comfy hiway bomber. Set the cruise at 80, turn up the Alpine, & Rock! 20 +mpg & a 27 gallon tank. Gotta love it! Used it for a couple years, demo derbyed it, & sold the 360 & flite to a guy who put it in a FORD wood hauler. Lasted a couple more years, I heard. Cosmetically speaking, a real pile. Don.

 

[TowPro]

I had a 76 Monza 2+2 I bought that had a vega motor in it. The old aluminum 4cyl was getting weak when I bought it (100K on it) so I built a new motor for it.



Buick V6 with Straight rod generals (odd fire). Lowered the compression and dropped a top end off the 1st generation grand national. garret Turbo, Draw through 4brl running through a 5 speed trans. man that thing would rip, in the 80's it would smoke the Ford 5. 0's that the kids were driving.



I guess the best beater I ever had I am still driving. 98 VW jetta TDI. 120K miles, I still get over 45mph and I add 1 quart at 5000 miles, then change it at 10K.



Now I read the topic, "looked worse, but ran great". That's easy, in one of my "poor times in the early 80's" I bought a 70 Pontiac Catalina with a 350 2V. Man that car looked like hell. Never had been waxed when I got it, the paint looked like silver primer, but after I got done fixing it it ran great. then I "customized it". little bucket seats out of some kind of toyota, and a center console out of a 69 Chevelle. I removed the back seat so I could carry my speaker system for my electric bass guitar, then I realized "while its back there, why not plug it in?" Some times I wonder if I was the one that started all that stuff that punks are doing today? The seats were so low the door window bottom was level with my neck, and the bass speaker could rattle windows!



But If I could get any of my old cars back, I would want the Monza, or my old 70 olds cutlass.

 

[juicedcummins]

1985 VW Golf in yellowish tan. Diesel of course! You could't kill that car and when off the beaten path if it wouldn't do it forward ,it would backward. This is one car had a higher alcohol consumption than fuel. {young and full off **** and vinegar}