Worst: 71 Gremlin
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I loved my 71 Gremlin. I did. The engine was strong and if you got past the weirdness of it - it actually was a good product.
Except the back hatch back window was held on by two cheap clamps. One day while driving down the road - one of those clamps failed - the other couldn’t hold the window by itself and - BANG!
Busted glass all over the road.
LOL you too huh LOL. Yea that happened to one of mine. I had three of them all in the 71-73 range. The straight shifts were the best. A built in {not intentional} anti-theft feature. The straights had floor shifters. If you held the floor shifter in neutral and turned the steering column sleeve you could lock the car up in 1st or reverse and the thief could not shift it with the floor shifter. I did that when I was at Norfolk Naval Shipyards and parked outside the secure lot.
Gremlins also required a crowbar to open the doors due to them being longer and wore out hinges faster. Other than that good solid and very reliable cars.
71 Gremlin
I was able to discover the back glass hinge was bad before it fell out. Dealer wanted like $300. for the back window assy, so I bondo-ed the whole window in place.
All the weight was over the front wheels. Go to the beach with it? Forget it! With snow on the road it wouldn’t take off unless whoever was riding shotgun got out to push to get us going. And that was on Houston’s flat roads. Yeah it did snow. I think it was winter of 73-74 just before I gave it to my Sister when I joined the Navy.
She at first was thrilled. Then she found someone else who was stupid enough to take it off her hands.