Top 5 with a twist

[Plymouthy Adams]

List the top five cars to be crushed...

[PatS....]

Chevette

Hyundai (all)

Toyota Echo

Volare/Aspen

Lada (all)

[Normspeed]

Aztek

Chevette

Any newer car with those beady reptilian headlights

Ex wife's car with her in the trunk oops just kidding:rolleyes:

Aztek

[David Maxwell]

... I would have to pick:

1. 1980 Plymouth Horizon

2. AMC Gremlin (any year)

3. Chrysler Corp K Cars (any year)

4. More Gremlins

5. More K Cars

All in jest! I realize we all have our opinions and should note that, before he painted my P15, the painter told me he and his brother used to immediately crush all the `40 to `48 Plymouths that came into their wrecking yard. Now he's in love with mine. Just goes to show we can all change our minds.

[David Maxwell]

...I went hunting in Germany with my brother. We drove a Lada 4X and I have to say, it was the perfect vehicle for the narrow forest roads in Germany. In spite of the muddy and hilly conditions, it never let us down. Besides, his philosophy was "I can buy four or five Ladas for the price of one Mercedes 4X". Uhh..., I guess that proves your point. LOL!

[Guest Nile Limbaugh]

As to the Chevette, at one time we had five (that's right, five!!) of them in the driveway. I personally drove 3 different Chevettes to over 150,000 miles each without removing the head, and all over the country at that. I'm going to stick my neck out here, and say that the Model A came once more and went without anybody noticing. If I could find another 79 with the HO engine I'd buy it today!!! But I agree with most of the other picks.

[wldavis3]

I think it would be hard to narrow it down to just five. Both Tim & Pat S

had some good picks, and I guess my top five would have to be some of

those. The '59 Chevrolet was one of those cars that you would think to

yourself "I wonder just what those stylists were thinking?" Actually, most

all GM cars, between about '57 and '60 make me wonder!

[Normspeed]

Yeah, my list was a bit tongue in cheek. Chevettes were pretty reliable little machines although GM didn't seem to even half try to make the front ends something you could fix or align. My little Ford Festiva is similar. Tiny, reliable, everything works except sometimes the dash lights and guages. I believe it was made in Korea for Ford. 1300 cc motor, runs like a clock.

[Guest usedmind]

Scion Xa

Scion Xb

CRV fist gen (i like the new ones)

Geo

80s Duster

[Johnny S]

Hummers

Pontiac Aztec

Volkswagen Thing

Virtually any Chevy or Ford 4 door sedan from 1975 - 1990.

Ford Pinto's

[Guest mikeys toy]

RENAULT ALLIANCE

Almost anything gm made

Hyundai excel

first gen civic

chevette

i've had several chevettes; one always ran. you had to hand crank the engine to bdc, then physically hold the starter in its hole, put a screwdriver down the little hole until you found a brush, then short the batt terminal

it would start everytime

and to the guy whom said they were easy to work on.......HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO CHANGE A STARTER ON ONE?!

you have to remove the master cylinder, remove the manifolds, remove the distributor, remove the starter,

i did that ONCE, put in a junkyard starter which lasted a day until it bound and broke the tranmission casing, hence the ordeal to start the thing

[Woody Branham]

All SUVs that park on both sides of my Crown Vic in parking lots, boocking my vision while trying to back out of a parking spot. Guess I should include those Big Assed Pick-ups too. One of these days someone is going to knock the ass off of Vicky because I can't see them and they can't see me. Regards, Woody

[PatS....]

Hey Woody, that Crown Vic isn't all THAT much smaller than the SUV's and pick-ups

And welcome !! to the best forum on the 'net.

[D25_Steve]

Wow, different strokes for different folks

I have a love for these cars...

Chevettes, Hyundai Ponys, and especially AMCs and 1st gen civics.

[greg g]

Renault any and all before 1999

DAF

Datsun F 10

Any Deawoo (including the late lemanted Pontic Le Mans 2nd generation)

[PatS....]

Greg, my dad had a Dauphine 4 door in the mid 60's. Nice little car but challenged for the Canadian winter. He wasn't too impressed with it but I thought it was a hoot!

[thedahmer]

1981 AMC EAGLE

pacers

1975 pontiacs

alpine sunbeam

early 90's caddys

[Guest mikeys toy]

What was bad about the Alpine?

[bmt47p-15]

How about those Yugos! The only ones I have seen where in the salvage yards.

[Guest mikeys toy]

I've owned 10+ Yugos, a couple of scca race cars (including my last one, which ended up on its top...fun little cars

[greg g]

So how come Fiats (Fix it again Tony) are bad in Italy, worse in Russia (Lada) and simply pathetic in the former Yugoslavia (Yugo)

[Guest jtw3749c]

I think they ought to crush all cars made in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and send them all back over sea's. And don't even think of letting those Communist Chinese cars in this country and send the rest of the junk, back that Wal-Mart sells. Sorry, I think we can do better then buy their junk. Although that Datsun F-10 went a 150,000 miles before I sold it.

JT

[Guest mikeys toy]

well, let me start by saying something infammatory

Americans haven't been able to build a decent car since the early 70's

my corolla had 375,000mi on it without anything major being done to it. It smoked at high speeds (4000+ rpm) and the timing chain rattled badly.

Let's not forget the original owner trucked 1,000lbs of equipment in the back of it on a daily basis, so those 375,000mi weren't easy ones.

I would much rather have a '94 toyota truck than the '94 ranger I own. Having driven tow trucks MY ENTIRE LIFE, I wouldn't TOUCH anything gm made after '73.

Yeah, yeah, some guys get 400,000mi out of thier American trucks/cars....but side by side, I think japanese vehicles win in reliability hands down........

[PatS....]

well, let me start by saying something infammatory

Americans haven't been able to build a decent car since the early 70's

my corolla had 375,000mi on it without anything major being done to it. It smoked at high speeds (4000+ rpm) and the timing chain rattled badly.

Let's not forget the original owner trucked 1,000lbs of equipment in the back of it on a daily basis, so those 375,000mi weren't easy ones.

I would much rather have a '94 toyota truck than the '94 ranger I own. Having driven tow trucks MY ENTIRE LIFE, I wouldn't TOUCH anything gm made after '73.

Yeah, yeah, some guys get 400,000mi out of thier American trucks/cars....but side by side, I think japanese vehicles win in reliability hands down........

I am just the opposite.

No furun cars cars for me even for free.

Many reasons.

I know I'm in the minority judging by the cars on the road, but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it

[Guest mikeys toy]

That's fair; I have personally owned over 300 cars since I was 15 1/2. I'm now 31 and I go back and forth.

I mean, hell; I LOVE mustang II's.......

MMMMMMM..... 302 powered pinto goodness.........