What? No Omni, Gremlin or Pacer?
It’d be funny to see updated, retro productions of these cars made with electric motors so they can be even worse than before!
Worst car I ever owned was a 1975 Fiat 128. Oh, dear Lord!
On the way home from the dealer all the fuses blew. I didn’t hold on to very long.
Quote: “What? No Omni, Gremlin or Pacer?”
How dare you insult the great Dodge Omni, my high school car!! Do you have any idea how hard I worked to scrape the rust off and how much duct tape I used to tape aluminum pans over the rusted out parts of the floor boards?
The door handles kept malfunctioning and they work to open the doors. I always had one functioning door, usually in the back seat. I would crawl into the back of the car to get out, looking pretty silly, or I would exit the car ala Bo and Luke Duke, which the chicks dug (ok, not really). Anwywho, one cold day I arrived at high school to find that all the doors had malfunctioned. No problem, I thought, I will just roll down the window and hop out. Buuuut, the windows were all frozen shut. I sat in the car for twenty minutes trying to roll down the window in futility. Finally, I gave up and tried to figure out if I should honk the horn to get someone to let me out (occasionally the outside handles would work if the inside ones did not). This approach, unfortunately, would leave me facing endless embarassment all day in school as everyone was inside school and me honking would make me look like a maniac. Option B was driving home and getting my Mom to let me out, drive me to school and write me a sick note to cover for being late as I was sure as to why I was late (this was before the days of cell phones). I went with the Mom and home option only to find nobody was home. It came to me at that moment that perhaps it was time for a new car.
Almost bought a Gremlin; got a Javlin which turned out to be a lemon. In the process of retoring a 1966 Marlin.
We liked the AMC dealer in Moorhead, Minnesota!!