BEST and Worst Cars You've Ever Owned

[BYprodriver]

[QUOTE=particlewave;323318]Most fun: the Box

Prettiest: Cherry Red 1985 Camaro with an '80 big block Corvette V8 454. Was a beast!


1980's Corvette with a 454 ? Guess again...

[BYprodriver]

I have never regretted buying any of my cars so for worst I will have to go with cheapest. $500 1967 Pontiac Catalina 2+2 428 c.i. 376 H.P. this is 1 of the best engines Pontiac ever made & I bought it to put the engine in my Firebird, the body was just a convenient way to drive the engine 100 miles to my house. This car turned out to be fun to drive since it was faster than most new cars when I owned it in the mid 80's. It had a huge speaker grille in the middle of the rear seats, the speaker was missing so when I burned rubber the smoke would come thru the grille & choke everyone in the back seat. It had the optional 8-lug wheels with integral aluminum brake drums, & all the drums were worn way beyond minimum thickness to varying degrees, so when I had to brake hard each wheel would lockup at different times. I liked the car since the huge trunk was great for hauling engine parts but my wife wouldn't be caught dead in it, so I sold it for $700.

Oh yeah, best car: 2000 Boxster S + 3.6

[particlewave]

[QUOTE=BYprodriver;323326]

Originally Posted by particlewave

Most fun: the Box

Prettiest: Cherry Red 1985 Camaro with an '80 big block Corvette V8 454. Was a beast!


1980's Corvette with a 454 ? Guess again...

You're right...that should have said '70, not '80.
LS5 454, 390 bhp, iirc...

[lahalte]

I relish your car Johnny

[shadrach74]

Hands down the most reliable is my current DD which is a '98 Lex GS400 with 210,XXX on the clock. The Toyota 1UZ-FE V8 with VVT is one of the best V8s I've ever driven. 4.0 with 300HP and 310ftLbs. It burns almost no oil between 10,000 oil changes and has onle stranded me once (diff failure@198K, likely due to my driving style). The build quality exceeds any European car I've ever owned (and I've owned all of the German and Swedish makes). Still able rip off sub 6 second 0-60 times after 15 years and 210K

The Boxster is the most fun, but seems like an expensive and unreliable trinket after 8 years of Lexus ownership.

A close second in the fun department was an '89 BMW 325is (E30). This was one of the best mixes of practicality and fun in a single package. It made it to 255K before a girlfriend unintentionally took it off road and trashed the undercarriage cracking the engine block and transmission case...

Honorable mention goes to my 1992 Audi 200Q. One of the first Audi S cars to be imported even though it was not named as such. This was my city car when I lived in SF. 240hp I5T 5 spd. I blew the doors off more than one older, normally aspirated 911 at 8000ft on I80 when Tahoe bound. It had 280K on the clock when I let it go...

[rem503]

Best Car - 1967 Sunbeam Alpine I bought at 18 and still have. Drove it out west to Colorado and back to Ohio and up to the tip of the upper penninsula of Michigan. It never stranded me. It's sleeping next to our 2000 Boxster now which has replaced it as our fun car.

Worst Car - 1978 Dodge Omni. Left front ball joint broke and almost killed us.

[WhipE350]

Originally Posted by rem503

Worst Car - 1978 Dodge Omni. Left front ball joint broke and almost killed us.

NO not you too. I just loved these cars for driving in snow, there wasn't a storm I couldn't drive through, never got stuck.

When I left Boston during the winter of 86/87' there was so much snow the sidewalk plows were riding on top of a 3 to 4 food snow pack. They used to leave these giant balls of snow at the end of my driveway and i would have to bash through them. I left for FL all packed up right before the next snowstorm. While I was looking for a place on the beach in Del Ray I was backing out and my front wheel fell right off, I was so embarrassed. All the rich kids were driving by in their Benz laughing and waving at me.

[rem503]

Originally Posted by WhipE350

NO not you too. I just loved these cars for driving in snow, there wasn't a storm I couldn't drive through, never got stuck.

When I left Boston during the winter of 86/87' there was so much snow the sidewalk plows were riding on top of a 3 to 4 food snow pack. They used to leave these giant balls of snow at the end of my driveway and i would have to bash through them. I left for FL all packed up right before the next snowstorm. While I was looking for a place on the beach in Del Ray I was backing out and my front wheel fell right off, I was so embarrassed. All the rich kids were driving by in their Benz laughing and waving at me.

Fantastic story. Don't you hate rich kids in a Mercedes Benz?

[Boxster_S_girl]

Fun topic!

I've owned more than 20 cars in my three decades, and my top three:
987s
955
923

The worst was a '97 Mitsubishi Eclipse FWD Turbo that a kid racer owned before me. That thing had so many problems from the cheap DIY motor mods I got rid of it a few weeks, a new turbo and a new head later. That was a money suck.

[Porsche Chick]

Originally Posted by Boxster_S_girl

Fun topic!

I've owned more than 20 cars in my three decades, and my top three:
987s
955
923

The worst was a '97 Mitsubishi Eclipse FWD Turbo that a kid racer owned before me. That thing had so many problems from the cheap DIY motor mods I got rid of it a few weeks, a new turbo and a new head later. That was a money suck.

Nice to see another car chick on the forum!

[Joe B]

Best (do trucks count?): 1999 Ford F250 Super Duty diesel (211000 miles and going strong).
Worst: 1998 Audi A4 Quattro . Nothing but problems.

[M31]

Best- my current car...a 2002 Boxster S...pure adrenaline rush!
Worst- 1961 Corvair...rolled it the day after I bought it...Ralph Nader was right...

[Boxster_S_girl]

Originally Posted by Porsche Chick

Nice to see another car chick on the forum!

Always! And especially ones that start great topics!

[mountainman]

best is any porsche. worst was a lincoln continental.