TROGDOR!!!
Posted on 08/16/2004 10:51:49 PM PDT by sully777
Take A Peak At Ugliest Cars Ever Made (PHOTO GALLERY)
[Included in the list are the Edsel Citation and AMC Gremlin]
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It ain't no thing.
I have said this before on this thread and I will say it again. Although the Element does take a little getting used to it is a superb shoppign utility velicle for under $21000. My wife loves it and it is a good ride. Also the local dealerships are having brisk sales of this model.
Bailing wire was a staple of our toolkit for that car.
(It ended up being driven on the sidewalks of Newton NJ and getting stopped by a foot patrolman. I was not involved in that one for once. But the kid who bought the car was.)
A guy with a Porsceh Boxter here was bragging about how much more sophisticated his car was than mine.
And he turned extremely purple when I mentioned what Ferdinand Porsche did before making Porsche.
*chuckle*
Carb fire in teh bug.
Ever see that neato little flame fountain happen?
(Got to see it twice, both times it was put out by FLOORING THE ENGINE which seemed to suck the flame back into the carb. We'd been changing some minor maintenance needing bits..)
I seem to remember having to hold the throttle cable in place while someone else wriggled like a snake under the car.
Didn't goof with the super air scoop thing that gulped air to cool the engine, it was deemed way too much trouble to bother with at the time.
You must have had the Pict 3 carb. I heard of it happening but I swapped the intakes and put a pair of Webers on after the cable fiasco. Found a VW specialist named Klaus on a referral. He REFUSED to work on my car. Said he'd rather teach me how to do things myself. He lent me any special tools I needed, gave me step-by-step instructions and checked on my progress every hour or so. Ended up putting oversize jugs and pistons, forged rods and "special" heads on the machine in one weekend. He apparently had the parts left over from some kid who didn't feel like paying. That was one fast little bug when we were done.
Not meaning to put down the Boxter but if it was a base model, I'm told the Subaru WRX will run circles around it.
I have odd tastes myself, I liked the 928...thought it was cool but it being front-engined, I'm told it wasn't a "real" Porsche.
The newer Boxter has an uprated engine, better cooling, and better transmission.
But the WRX, even ugly with that slat intake, will still outcorner it.
(Sway bars thickness difference if memory serves right.)
Not sure offhand what the carb was.
(Been eons past.)
A girl I went to school with was standing at the side of the road, hauled her shirt up to flash her chest, flipped off the occupants of the Bug, and then watched as they flipped her off in return and then proceeded to wreck in her front yard.
(This was after the sidewalk run with that car. The kid who bought it had my brother in the car with him when the flashing incident occured.)
Speaking of sway bars, my car is a JettaIII gl, 18mm sway bar if I remember correctly, and the missus car is a JettaIII GLS, has a 25mm sway bar.
(I probably have the sizes wrong, but the GLS has a thicker swaybar.)
Same car body, same engine and transmission, but the difference in swaybar size make the GLS handle corners better.
Austin Allegro
Regards, Ivan
I was just over there as well. I liked the emblem so much, I had to get one for my Suzuki :-)
Just when I thought I'd forgotten that thing.
*shudder*
He does win the prize for ugliest grill...
Thank God somebody has said it. That box on wheels is pure eye wash hell
Ford Prefect.
I had a Volaré. I can assure you that the only leather in it was the strap we had to use to keep the cold air intake hose from falling out of the engine!
In general, I think it's best that one avoids automobiles named after a parking ticket.
Looks damn good - but emphasis on 'looks' - damn soundless work 'puter limiting my enjoyment of this site - thanks for heads-up regardless
Thanks...Audi seems to rule.
Probably my pick too.
I'd go for an Allroad for sure. I first noticed them right away a few years ago when they first came out.
[kugelwagen] 219 - "What keeps it from going over on its back like a turtle when you pop the clutch? Rear engine, rear wheel drive, feather light front end and 400 HP are a dangerous mix. "
Good question, and exactly a problem. We had one locally, and it did just that, repeatedly, until he moved the rear engine forward, several feet, into where the back seat normally would be.
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