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Who has owned the ultimate death trap of a car?

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Trey22

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My dear wife who I love with all my heart wants me to get a new car... and at this point I agree 100% with her (G35 here I come!), because my current ride is a DEATHTRAP!

Specs:

1971 VW Beetle
Rebuilt 4-banger

History of mishaps within the past 6 months:

1. Overheated on the freeway - damn aircooled engines.
2. Horn got stuck, always honking... had to take the steering wheel off and rip out the horn assembly and contacts to get it to stop. During it's constant honking, had a group of unruly fellows in the car next to me take exception and practically chase me down.
3. Brake master cylinder goes out, and I almost rear-end a new car w/ no plates at 50MPH... only my cat-like reflexes and the handy emergency brake saved me a hike in insurance rates. Had to drive home using the hand brake to stop.
4. Rear left tire happens to fall off in one of the busiest intersections in my city. Had to drive on 3 tires to get the car out of the intersection, and then had to bear the embarrasment and the danger of picking up a tire, hubcap and 4 lugnuts from a busy cross street.
5. Driving home on the freeway, and the electrical goes out in puff of blue sparks and smoke... no headlights, no brake lights, NO lights whatsoever, it all shot to hell. Had to get off and take the back roads hoping I didn't get pulled over.
5. Steering wheel came off driving home from work.. no joke, dunno how, it just came off. I really don't want to talk about this one.
6. Stalls at every stop sign and stop light.
7. Flat tires galore.
8. It backfires, and people duck and hit the pavement like if it were a drive-by shooting.
9. Never, ever take your hands off the steering wheel, it likes to turn right by itself.
10. Today, the hand brake assembly pulled right off the floor after trying to set it.

My final act with this cursed piece of machinery will be to take a rag, place it in the gas tank opening, and light it.

If you see smoke in the Bay Area, it will be this deathtrap of a car I use to get to work on a daily basis.
 
You can currently hear my car braking (major grinding) from about half a mile away. Don't think that's a good sign.

I drove a few people in it today, told them my brakes were loud and they said they didn't mind. Little did they know what they were up for.
 
I let my rear brakes get like that once. It was a big mess back there when I got around to rep;acing them.
 
Originally posted by: Crucial
I let my rear brakes get like that once. It was a big mess back there when I got around to rep;acing them.
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Same here, over 400 bucks worth of parts and labor.
 
Originally posted by: Trey22
My dear wife who I love with all my heart wants me to get a new car... and at this point I agree 100% with her (G35 here I come!), because my current ride is a DEATHTRAP!

Specs:

1971 VW Beetle
Rebuilt 4-banger

History of mishaps within the past 6 months:

1. Overheated on the freeway - damn aircooled engines.
2. Horn got stuck, always honking... had to take the steering wheel off and rip out the horn assembly and contacts to get it to stop. During it's constant honking, had a group of unruly fellows in the car next to me take exception and practically chase me down.
3. Brake master cylinder goes out, and I almost rear-end a new car w/ no plates at 50MPH... only my cat-like reflexes and the handy emergency brake saved me a hike in insurance rates. Had to drive home using the hand brake to stop.
4. Rear left tire happens to fall off in one of the busiest intersections in my city. Had to drive on 3 tires to get the car out of the intersection, and then had to bear the embarrasment and the danger of picking up a tire, hubcap and 4 lugnuts from a busy cross street.
5. Driving home on the freeway, and the electrical goes out in puff of blue sparks and smoke... no headlights, no brake lights, NO lights whatsoever, it all shot to hell. Had to get off and take the back roads hoping I didn't get pulled over.
5. Steering wheel came off driving home from work.. no joke, dunno how, it just came off. I really don't want to talk about this one.
6. Stalls at every stop sign and stop light.
7. Flat tires galore.
8. It backfires, and people duck and hit the pavement like if it were a drive-by shooting.
9. Never, ever take your hands off the steering wheel, it likes to turn right by itself.
10. Today, the hand brake assembly pulled right off the floor after trying to set it.

My final act with this cursed piece of machinery will be to take a rag, place it in the gas tank opening, and light it.

If you see smoke in the Bay Area, it will be this deathtrap of a car I use to get to work on a daily basis.
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LMAO. Aside from multiple attempts to kill you, that car is rather entertaining.
 
Originally posted by: Kaervak
Originally posted by: Trey22
My dear wife who I love with all my heart wants me to get a new car... and at this point I agree 100% with her (G35 here I come!), because my current ride is a DEATHTRAP!

Specs:

1971 VW Beetle
Rebuilt 4-banger

History of mishaps within the past 6 months:

1. Overheated on the freeway - damn aircooled engines.
2. Horn got stuck, always honking... had to take the steering wheel off and rip out the horn assembly and contacts to get it to stop. During it's constant honking, had a group of unruly fellows in the car next to me take exception and practically chase me down.
3. Brake master cylinder goes out, and I almost rear-end a new car w/ no plates at 50MPH... only my cat-like reflexes and the handy emergency brake saved me a hike in insurance rates. Had to drive home using the hand brake to stop.
4. Rear left tire happens to fall off in one of the busiest intersections in my city. Had to drive on 3 tires to get the car out of the intersection, and then had to bear the embarrasment and the danger of picking up a tire, hubcap and 4 lugnuts from a busy cross street.
5. Driving home on the freeway, and the electrical goes out in puff of blue sparks and smoke... no headlights, no brake lights, NO lights whatsoever, it all shot to hell. Had to get off and take the back roads hoping I didn't get pulled over.
5. Steering wheel came off driving home from work.. no joke, dunno how, it just came off. I really don't want to talk about this one.
6. Stalls at every stop sign and stop light.
7. Flat tires galore.
8. It backfires, and people duck and hit the pavement like if it were a drive-by shooting.
9. Never, ever take your hands off the steering wheel, it likes to turn right by itself.
10. Today, the hand brake assembly pulled right off the floor after trying to set it.

My final act with this cursed piece of machinery will be to take a rag, place it in the gas tank opening, and light it.

If you see smoke in the Bay Area, it will be this deathtrap of a car I use to get to work on a daily basis.
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LMAO. Aside from multiple attempts to kill you, that car is rather entertaining.
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So you're saying my car is possessed and has a personal vendetta against me?
 
Originally posted by: Trey22
Originally posted by: Kaervak
LMAO. Aside from multiple attempts to kill you, that car is rather entertaining.
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So you're saying my car is possessed and has a personal vendetta against me?
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It's possible. It is German after all. 😉
 
I had an 81 plymouth horizan with a VW 1.7l and auto tranny with around 180k,280k,380k, who knows on it that I got for free because it broke down in my parents driveway. The lady that owned it was just going to call a junkyard and have them come and pick it up but I needed a beater so I took it. I rebuilt the carb, put new brakes on it, and 4 new tires and drove it for a year. It had no carpet, 1 screw holding the dash together, no headliner, I cut the powersteering belt cause the rack leaked, the rear frame was rusted out, had 70hp when it rolled of the line, but it never tried to kill me 🙂.

there is the beast in the back ground
 
OH man i had a car like that. a 1982 Honda Accord.

It woul dhave a flat tire almost every month. While driving the brakes just stoped working. I had a stop sign and went to hit the brakes when the peddle went to the floor. I was just lucky that it was 11pm at night and i was going 30 miles an hour.

Once while driving the front tire blew out with such force ti dented the car!

the sun roof leaked (nearly lost a GF over that!)

I was rear ended and under the car was a pile of rust. the car did run better after it though.

On the drivers side floor i could remove the carpet and throw trash out!

Oh i had the fuel pump die on me twice.

OH had the car a year and NEVER changed the oil!

But i paid $50 for the car and sold it for $400
 
All I've had that's tried to kill me is a 98 Grand Am that I purchased used ("GM Certified - Certified piece of sh*t more like) with 20K miles on it. Car was great... except that at random, you'd hit the gas from a stop and the guages would all flip back and forth (0 to 130 in the blink of an eye!) and the motor would stop running. After it did this a few times (in the middle of an intersection, always) and the stealership "couldn't replicate the problem", I played their game by trading it on a new Civic. I think I came out ahead on that deal, Civic hasn't tried to kill me... yet.
 
Oh, and my friend calls it a Flinstone Car because like waggy, you could see the the road rushing by on the floorboard as you drove around.
 
These may be money traps, but the ancient cars tend to hold up pretty well in accidents.
The death traps are these plastic cars that are being pumped out today.
 
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