Hot Rods OK, what car do you wish you would have never bought?

1964 Falcon Sprint, 260, 4 speed. Biggest POS I ever owned. I spent a couple grand on a new engine, transmission and 9" rear end. It was like putting lipstick on a pig... big waste of time and money. Kept it from '69 til '73 when I sold it to some kid. Do not miss that one at all...

 

'85 Buick Century. Nice looking, low mileage car that we bought in '87. It was very comfortable when we drove it on some long trips, good gas mileage, but that car was jinxed. A guy in our church was the body shop foreman at the Buick-Olds dealer in Dalton GA. The original owner traded the car after it got sideswiped rather than having it fixed. Dub bought the car--he had a shop at his house. He fixed it, replaced both driver's side door skins and some repair on the quarter panel. He did a first cl*** job, and you couldn't tell it had ever been scratched, and he made us a good deal on it. We owned it 3 years. Only two major problems. First, it was a royal pain to work on. When the water pump failed, I thought I'd fix it myself since I've been working on cars since junior high school and had changed plenty of water pumps. Not so simple. 3.0 V6, shoehorned in so tight that there was no way to change the water pump with the engine in the car. Then it was a turn signal flasher, which should be a simple matter of unplugging the old one and plugging the new one its place--except it took me the better part of a day, taking the dash apart, to get to it. And that car was a wreck magnet. Twice my wife got rear-ended while driving it. Twice our friend Dub fixed it as good as new. It was totalled the third time my wife got rear-ended while driving it. Drunk driver running 70 mph rear-ended her and put the left rear wheel under the front seat. End of the Buick Century. Whoever got the engine out of that car got a good running engine complete with a new water pump.

 

Bought a 62 Dodge Lancer for the wife. Stupid thing was a pain in the *** from day one. Final straw was when she was driving along, hit a bump and the gas tank fell out on the road.

 

An ot Van that I bought off Ebay for about 150 bucks back 15 years ago when you could buy "project" cars for about what they brought over the scales at the s**** yard. This one had a fried engine because the hose to the auxillary trans cooler leaked and the trans fluid collected dirt. It was a nice van though. Then I bought a similar conversion van with a raised top off another auction and towed it home an began swapping the roof and some of the interior pieces. Somewhere I gave up on the whole idea and sold it for s**** for probably what I had in it.
I've never had a hot rod or project car that I wished I had never bought but had one or two that I shouldn't have bought even though the price was right. A 34 Olds sedan with a cobbled on Camaro subframe that I bought for 50.00 plus tax and plates was one of those. Way too much wood to deal with and the subframe job was a total mess.

 

I suppose the very worse one was a 66 Lincoln coupe I just HAD to have. Had a new light green metallic paint job on it with metallic green leather interior and the factory premium 8 track AM/FM stereo. The 462 ran nice. First the stereo wiring caught on fire and it never worked again. Then the power steering pump located on the front of the crankshaft stopped working..no more power steering or wipers...in Portland Oregon in the winter!
Heater core developed a leak...antifreeze mist on the inside of the windshield...in Portland in the winter!
One day I horsed that thing to work, [no power steering] loosing a muffler on the freeway and parked it in the employee parking...next to a brand new Merc Cougar. Some neighborhood 13 year old kids stole a 61 falcon and were screaming through the parking lot in it....BAM! Right into the side of my lincoln, knocking that heavy ******* into Don's new Cougar...took out both my quarters!
I was very unhappy and after having many Bud's after work, I was driving it home in the rain when the drivers' window fell down.......and then the left front brake locked up, pulling me into oncoming traffic! I just dodged traffic and pulled it around the corner on a side street with the left front tire dragging...shut it off and walked [in the rain] to my house. I called the junk man to come and get it...gave me $125 for it and I didn't quibble.
What a piece-a-****!

 

I bought a 1960 Dodge when I was 16. Big fins. 318 automatic. 2 door post. Damn thing ran like a top. Super dependable. Most boring car I ever owned! Sold it as soon as I could and bought a beat up 55 chevy 2 door post, 265 power pack for 50 bucks. Drove the hell out of it through high school. Several motors and various other parts. First paint job, first body work, first engine swap, first interior. Nothing was sacred. Not as dependable but sure was more fun!

 

OT 04 Mercedes ML series what a turd, the things some people do???

 

86 Vette. Well, really an 84 and then an 86 Vette. Looked at the 84 at dusk, didn't see the butchered up wiring until the next morning after I had bought it. Kept it 6 months, trans lost OD, fuel pump went out, various electrical things quit working or worked part time, sold it and got most of my money back. Bought the 86 about 3 months later, it had a bad master cylinder to start with, but seemed OK. Drove it about 3 months, dropped a valve, self aligning rockers were worn out, let one slip sideways knocking the keeper out. Had the aluminum heads reworked, new valves and guides, put in a set of roller rockers and guide plates. Drove it about 3 months, then it got hard to crank. Put on a new fuel pump, 3 different times. New ignition modules and coils. Had the anti theft system byp***ed. Changed injectors twice. Damn thing would run like a ****d ape when it would crank, you just never knew when it would crank or not, never the same symptoms. One time it wouldn't want to crank cold, next it might be when it was hot. Sat for 6 months when it wouldn't crank one time, then out of the blue it started right up one day and ran fine for a month, then it got to where it was hit or miss again, I was scared to go anywhere in it afraid it would leave me stranded. Put it up for sale, lowered the price several times, nobody wanted it. Finally got the opportunity to trade it on a 88 Firebird Formula 350, so I did. Lost money on the trade, but at least I got something I'm not afraid to go off in.