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I find what should be my worst cars were more my favorites.
1973 Caprice - Body completely rusted through. 400 small block. Used to have to stop every fifteen minutes when doing donuts in the snow to shovel out the trunk or the body would rub the rear tires.
1987 Caprice - Very clean car. 305ci with a 2.56 rear axle ratio. Used to drive it from Oklahoma to Chicago all the time. Pulled out the 15 gallon gas tank and put in a 20 or maybe 22 so that in combination with the rear axle, I could drive 500 miles on a tank of gas.
1978 GMC Flare side - More rusted out than my '73 Caprice. No floorboards, wooden bed. Everybody would start humming the Sanford and Son theme song when I would pull up.
I was 18ish when I had the '73, so that was the perfect car for me. Enough power to get into a little trouble. Big enough I wouldn't kill myself, and if I totalled it, I'd be out $300.
I was in my early 20s with the '87. I loved that car. Great for cruising the expressway. Finally sold it with 300k on the odometer and it still ran like a champ.
I was in my early 30s with the '78 and I was going through a minimalist phase and I couldn't get more minimal than that. I drove that truck all over.
I dig my 1997 Boxster now, and it is very awesome, but I find it difficult to put it in my favorites yet as we've only known each other 16 months.
My worst - Probably my first car. 1977 Lincoln Town Car. 4mpg and of the 4000 miles I put on that car before I cracked the block, I think 1000 were on the back of a tow truck. It wasn't the car's fault, it just wasn't maintained by the previous owner.
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