Posted on 04/26/2018 10:06:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
Did you own any of these?
I did.......................
I owned a purple AMC Gremlin. It was a good little car. I liked it.
Most of the cars on that list, the American ones anyway, I think were great looking!..................
I’m not hating on the Tatra or the Astin Martin... Without the enlongated rear window, the Pinto looks like just about any other ‘70’s economy car.
But the S-Cargo? Really? It drives like a cooked snail?
That’s a SILLY-looking car, not an UGLY one.
They think a Pinto is uglier than a Citroen?
Weird.
Most of the cars on that list, the American ones anyway, I think were great looking!
Take another look at the Aztek... it was just ahead of its time. Now, it looks quite normal.
list is incomplete! No french Citroens or Renaults. I think Citroen made the “Duck”. It Looks like something you would see in a masterpiece theater episode. Perhaps make a list of the ugliest french cars? I believe the term “lemon”, In french “Citroen”, such as lemon laws referring to pieces of junk cars came from the G.I.’s returning from France after WWII!
Honorable Mention: Nissan Juke and Kia Soul. Honda Element. The new two-tone Volvo XC40.
I’m with you on this one. A coffin on wheels!
Hell...
Where the food is British
The cars are French
The police are German
The lovers are Swiss
....and the whole thing is run by Italians
I will jst assume the AMC Gremlin is there, and yes, I HATED IT.
I wanted a 1967 Mustang and saved up $2000 to get one. My father made me buy a lightly used Gremlin. I was teased mercilessly. A year later my my sister totalled her VW and I sold the despised Gremlin to her for what I paid a year earlier and bought a 1968 Ford Mustang GT/CS. That was hot rodded out with radical cam and double pumper Holley.
I loved that car. 40 years later, it is still my favorite car Iever owned.
Dang, your clip really highlights the mannequins that I probably didn't notice seeing it in the theater.
When I was a teenager, we lived in an apartment complex. Our next door neighbor had a lime-green Gremlin. My dad had a bronze/copper Lincoln, made before those were downsized. A car uphill from us in the parking lot slipped out of gear, rolled down the hill, and hit the Lincoln. Our neighbor said, “Oh, thank goodness it did not hit the Gremlin!” We got a kick out of it, except for the damage to our car. That lime green thing was a monstrosity.
Actually, the Pinto station wagon (with the fake wood-grain look decals) was a pretty good-looking vehicle, and it did NOT have the potential for fire after a rear-end collision.
I once wanted to get hold of one of these models and convert it into a small pickup truck - cut off the back part of the roof and side glass of the back portion, and re-install the tailgate as the back side of the cab, lining the interior of the box with marine-grade plywood and finishing it in a high-quality varnish, and use it as a parade car.
Had a change of dreams along the way....
I love the little *ping* sound right before the explosion.
Disagree.
It’s not only ugly, it’s offensive. It’s infuriating.
It’s so bad that they had to actually name it “Smart” in order to convince stupid people to buy one.
The inside was very roomy, like a full size car.
GM screwed AMC over when they canned the rotary engine that the Pacer was originally designed for.
AMC then had to reverse engineer and shoehorn into that compact engine compartment an in-line engine that they used on another vehicle......................
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