I drove a beat up Rodeo V6 today, and enjoyed it.

[DivideBYZero]

Anyone else just enjoy driving almost anything? Even if it's just to find out how absolutely terrible it is?

This thing has had a hard life. The central locking didn't work, the shift pattern had worn off the manual shift (not driven one of these so that added to the fun when finding reverse!) and it smelled like an old sport sock. But at the end of it all, I enjoyed driving it, with its incredibly imprecise steering, baggy cart sprung chassis and notchy, long shift. There's something liberating about driving true pieces of shit, especially as this was on the streets of Bogota, Colombia, where might is right and tiny taxis are driven by psychotics trying to run you off the road.

 

[punjabiplaya]

reminds me of a specific Toyota Hilux diesel...

 

[ElFenix]

best part of bogota is crossing the double yellow line with oncoming traffic in order to pass 3 wide on a 2 lane road

 

[JulesMaximus]

I had one once. It was a complete pile of crap and I don't miss it in the slightest.

 

[DivideBYZero]

best part of bogota is crossing the double yellow line with oncoming traffic in order to pass 3 wide on a 2 lane road

No shit! Driving the mountain roads, uphill, and passing 40ft semis while crossing double yellows before a tight curve, FTW! 😀

 

[DivideBYZero]

I had one once. It was a complete pile of crap and I don't miss it in the slightest.

I'm not really talking about the car in particular, I'm talking about the experience.

 

[CraigRT]

Don't ask me, I love old cars.
I have paid less than $1000 for 3 out of 4 of my last cars.

 

[alkemyst]

if might was right, you'd be in one those 'pyscho' taxi driver's trunks still. lolz

 

[exdeath]

I know what you mean, sometimes its fun to drive a total piece of shit. It must be rooted in the admiration for mechanical simplicity. I would love to rock an old Bug or Trabant.

Through Id have to live in a small town or something, people being stuck up assholes with any kind of new car because I'm in a piece of junk would get to me quickly. Which is sad because I would have no shame driving a Trabant, I just don't like people who are assholes.

It would be pretty fun in a place where that's all they had and nobody cared.

 

[dug777]

Get the same feeling taking the father-in law's FJ shorty forty for a spin 🙂

It's had a conversion to a 4litre carbied Falcon motor so it's got rather more poke than the old diesel it came with 😉

 

[Hellotalkie]

I don't think my honda is a pos but its still my favorite car i've owned. It beats a 2008 focus, 1997 wrangler, 2005 tiburon, 2003 focus, 1998 mitsu eclipse.

The car just works and its old. Having 163,xxx miles on the car is something I like having? Knowing that this car is still going strong, its just a great feeling. Has every feature I need, power windows, locks, a/c, alarm, remote start etc...

Nothing much to break on it either. The only thing I can see to its despise is the body will start rusting away due to all the salt we have here.

1997 civic

 

[DivideBYZero]

I know what you mean, sometimes its fun to drive a total piece of shit. It must be rooted in the admiration for mechanical simplicity. I would love to rock an old Bug or Trabant.

Through Id have to live in a small town or something, people being stuck up assholes with any kind of new car because I'm in a piece of junk would get to me quickly. Which is sad because I would have no shame driving a Trabant, I just don't like people who are assholes.

It would be pretty fun in a place where that's all they had and nobody cared.

Unfortunately it's hard to get away from that snobbery and it's the liberation from that sense of what people think of you that is one of the good feelings. In fact, the snobbery is even greater here in Bogota.

 

[DivideBYZero]

if might was right, you'd be in one those 'pyscho' taxi driver's trunks still. lolz

Oh yeah, haha, "lolz".


Tool.

 

[skyking]

young guy I worked with had one, a beat up auto. He basically lived out of it, it was huge pit in the back.
One day he had a lapse in judgment, cut in front of a guy turning left and it got smashed in the right rear corner. Got it towed home and there it sat, axle bent, body bent, back door smashed.
I told him to find an axle and we'd put it back on the road. We drag the axle in and bring it over to my place of big hammers.😀

I showed him how a farmboy would fix it. I removed the unbroken back glass and the tailgate, and proceed to beat the crap out of it with a 12 pound sledge. Gate hangs back on and works.
Then I stand on the gate and use a 2x4 and same sledge to "reposition" the roof at the glass hatch hinge. I get the glass to close and lock again.
The door? you got three others and a hatch, just tape that thing so the rain does not get in. He drove it for another year before that center diff mentioned above gave out completely.

 

[skull]

I love pieces of shit so much its all I drive. My newest car is a 1991 ford escort that I payed 100 bucks for not running. Put a battery and clutch master and slave cylinder in and shes on the road(plus everyday tune up stuff and fluid changes). The best part is she feels like a sports car compared to the straight 6 F250 I was driving everywhere. Plus I can beat the hell out of it. If I blow it up I can scrap it for more than I got in it.

 

[punjabiplaya]

i really liked Seasick Steve's philosophy on Top Gear:

just buy a car for $50 and drive it until it breaks and get another one