Whats the best 'crap' car you've had?

jaydeeuk1

I love crap cars, but they always have a certain charm, and having a comfortable, safe, reliable car now that is just so nice to drive is so damn boring.

Its another thread that made me think of this, but my old fiat tipo was a brilliant car, simply because it was so useless at everything it did. It would never start, you couldn't steer in the wet, nuts and bolts fell off every week from some unknown mechanical part, it leaked, burnt oil and sounded like a tractor, but I would swap my toyota for it straight up for just another drive. No one else in my family could drive it as you had to change gear a certain way, and fiddle with the ignition coil or whack starter with a hammer just to get moving. Good days...

Am I just wierd?

hartcjhart

Mine was a 2cv loved it but that pull push gearstick:mad:

and the way you would graze your elbow while going round corners:rotfl::rotfl:

mandragora_2

Another citroen here - a fabulous BX - we bought it for £600; the seats were wrecked so Himself got replacements from the scrapyard - the most comfortable seats we've ever had. We drove it for three years, got ourselves out of 'skintland' with the money we'd saved. Something started to go wrong with it, so we[STRIKE] [STRIKE]offloaded[/STRIKE][/STRIKE] sold it through the local free-ads (sorry - not being deliberately mean, and the guy who bought it was a mechanic, he told us) for the princely sum of... £600. The worst bit was the non-cancel indicators - but the hydraulic suspension gave a dream ride!



The next best buy has got to have been 'nanny's car' (had belonged to the M-I-L)- a Honda Concerto - bought it for £1,000 (a hefty price to pay, but she wanted what she reckoned she'd have got on the open market). It ran like a dream for 5 years, until it broke down and died absolutely in October this year. It was 17 years old; we traded it in under scrappage and released £2000 worth of govt-funded incentives! Mind you, not telling nanny that's what we got off the price, because she'd be sure to ask for her cut!!

mazza111

an £80 Fiesta that u could unlock the drivers door from inside. Was great until I forgot about it and parked next to a lamppost with the other door. Was 8months pregnant at the time and i'm sure I must have looked a pretty sight trying to get in thru the boot :rotfl:

hethmar

LOL, my first car, Renault 4 - with its weird gear stick and bouncy ride, would plough over snow drifts when other cars were stuck. I slammed the door once when my toddler son still had his hand on the jamb, the fit was so bad, his fingers werent even bruised

wearside_2

A bright green Morris Minor that cost me £60 in 1971. I spent ages and ages looking under, over, inside, and driving it before I was satisfied that it was worth the money.:rotfl::rotfl:

mollycat

Proton, (the one that was a Mitsuibishi Colt copy); had sat unwanted on my mechanics waste ground for ages, eventually gave him £50 for it, MOT'd it, then hardly spent a thing on it for next two years.

Oh, and it was lime green.

OP, know exactly what you mean, have had numerous cheapos over the years, and yes, there is a certain charm to driving them.

mumoffour77

Toyota Previa

cost £900 6 years ago.......

I didnt want to get rid of it.....but DH had a car accident and i needed a wheelchair accessiable car.....if i was able to convert that car I would have done in a heartbeat....but DH sat 56" in his wheelchair and I had to get a fiat scudo instead:(

mollycat

OH's first car was an old Metro, bought at auction by my dad who had a small garage at the time.

Unfortunately he set it on fire whilst welding it the next day!!!

Rubbish car, stalled approaching every junction as soon as the clutch was disengaged; OH loved it tho..1st car.

Lum

For me probably an L reg VW Passat 1.9 TD with the amazing 64bhp "umwelt" diesel engine that I bought in 2006 off a pair of Russians living in central London for £750 It had a fault where it was difficult to start, worse if you parked facing uphill. Fixed by replacing a single bit of fuel hose with some spare blue silicone hose lying about the house.Nothing else mechanical ever went wrong with it. Sure the passenger side electric window didn't work because the motor and lifting mechanism had been replaced with a table leg, and the sunroof didn't sit properly, the left side was higher than the right side, and it had the usual array of dents and scratches that you would expect from a car that has lived in central London. Only got rid of it because it was 3rd party only with no windscreen cover and local vandals smashed the windscreen and all the glass down one side and it was cheaper to buy another car than to replace the glass. I kinda wish I'd replaced the glass though.

Forris

When I was in my mid-20's and single, I bought and X-reg Volvo 245DL Estate, a great big tank of a car that had about 120,000 miles on the clock.

It was rust-free apart from the boot lid, where the outer skin had come away from the inner at the bottom which meant that it would 'flap' when the car went over 55mph!

The electrics on these old buses was so interconnected that if a bulb failed, the car wouldn't start! I had to abandon it in Kent once, and go back to tow it home following day.

Someone tried to break into it once by the oh-so-subtle method of punching a screwdriver into the lock and trying to prise it out. Due to the fact that these locks are secured into the doors with a 3mm-thick steel bracket they merely managed to !!!!!! the lock up. As the passenger door lock was already faulty and the central locking was unreliable, I had to climb in and out by the boot (which could be unlocked by putting a finger through the rust and clicking the mechanism manually) for a while, until I 'fixed' the central locking by fitting a toggle-switch under the front wheel arch.

I drove to Cornwall in it once to meet some friends for a weeks holiday. Left home at 3am, after working a full night shift. The car radio didn't work, so I sang Elvis songs for the 6.5 hour trip. Top speed was 70mph downhill with a tailwind (with the boot flapping above 55!). Stopped twice at services for fuel, breakfast and loads of coffee.

Good times!!!