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OriginalGriff wrote: No way was that heap ever going to "get air" without falling off a cliff ... 
not going to happen, you have to go up a hill to find a cliff - it'd break down forever not even half way up.
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My Lamborghini only gets 5 mpg. Ugh.
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My Mustang gets 3 - because 'MURRICA!
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: My Mustang gets 3 - because 'MURRICA!
Yeah, but you use those poofy little wine gallons over there. Other bloke is from Britain where they are using the manly beer gallon so probably close to the same mileage.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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A Simca Matra Bagheera. The only thing that did not rust was the plastic body (epoxy fiberglass)
Matra Bagheera - Wikipedia[^]
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Hey it looked  !
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A 1967 Dodge Dart with 6 cylinder motor. It was 1983? We were kids and the 67 chevelle we had as our first car got rear ended and with unibody construction was done for. The dart had a weird issue that when the dry Santa Anna winds of So. Cal would blow, that thing would not start. So yeah on the most "beautiful" dry smog free days I was late for work - try to explain this to your boss, that on nice days your car wouldn't start.
One dark night we were coming back from visiting my parents in seal beach on the 22 fwy at speed when the bolt that held the fan to the crankshaft left. The spinning fan jumped into the radiator with alternator belt attached and I don't have to tell you what that sounded like to go from cruising peace to all hell breaking loose in an instant. After weeks went by, we eventually got the POS back on the road and traded in for a Toyota Corolla hatchback that was a very good car.
The 4 x 4 trailblazer we just got rid of comes in a close second but it was a 2003 and we drove it for all it was worth. Except for 3 transfer case explosions, countless ignition coil replacements and the interior plastic breaking left and right it was a pretty decent vehicle.
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Ron Anders wrote: when the bolt that held the fan to the crankshaft left
I have a similar story. My '72 Ford Maverick had a 170 cu. in. inline 6-cylinder engine. My wife was driving when one of the fan blades decided it had had enough, and struck out on its own. On its way it gouged a trough through the radiator and then committed unlawful congress with the battery. Meanwhile, the water pump disintegrated due to the unbalanced fan, and the harmonic balancer became unbalanced. Essentially everything forward of the engine block was destroyed.
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Ron Anders wrote: A 1967 Dodge Dart with 6 cylinder motor. It was 1983?
So, the "worst car you ever owned" was 16 years old when you got it?
Doesn't sound unreasonable.
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Ron Anders wrote: the bolt that held the fan to the crankshaft left.
The fan is connected to the waterpump, which is driven with a belt that connects it to a pulley on the crank... Also, there are four bolts that hold the fan onto the water pump. I've never seen all four bolts let go all at once, but I have seen OEM fans lose a fan blade, go off balance, and eventually tear itself apart, but only if you were lucky enought to not have the detached blade slice open one of the water hoses first. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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If I recall correctly, the Chevelle was full framed; the Chevy II (aka Nova) was unibody
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84 Volkswagen Vanagen.... never again. Bought it new. Within 36K miles, a/c broke, lots of little issues.
By 50k, the rear CV axles were gone, seems the factory forgot to grease them. 55k - one ot the cylinder
heads started leaking fluid.
What a piece of garbage
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Volkswagen - YouTube[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Even so, never again. . Years ago when I still had to drive the hoard around, I had 3 vehicles I could choose from: Ford E350, a GMC something and a Dodge something - all 15 seater. Even then, it was a crap shoot.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I want an EV because of the far far fewer things that can go wrong but the USA where I be is still too Big Loud Truck.
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Ron Anders wrote: I want an EV because of the far far fewer things that can go wrong
Of course if it's always parked, waiting to be charged, fewer things can go wrong than if you were actually driving it...
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LOL. U winz d internetz 4 2da.
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That's what one of my sons thought and got a new leaf, nice car but not for someone that regularly does 130+ mile journeys and found he couldn't complete the journey without a charge cycle on the way if it was cold, raining.....
Longer trips needed more than one charge in a day and you are only supposed to do 1 fast charge per day
For a while he viewed it as a challenge to plan journeys around charge points but explaining to fellow passengers that you were going to sit in a service area for 40 minutes became boring and eventually he handed it back and went back to diesel
When battery technology improves they will be great and other than range the car was really good
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I currently drive a chevy astro cargo van with our company banner on it just around town. So an EV cargo van like the Nissan ENV200 would be perfect. With a license that says E Ticket and a frame that says
We goin' to
Electric Avenue.
I have it all planned out and 220 VAC (Level 2) in my garage
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A VW Passat.
Actually nothing really bad. But it kept killing my back. And it had a more or less continuous series of small breakdowns that all cost a fortune to repair. I was happy to see it go.
Honorary mention. My fathers Citroën GS.
It broke down in a most remarkable fashion.
As a fresh driver without a car of my own I had borrowed it from my father when visiting a friend.
On the way home I heard a loud bang. And when I tried to apply the brakes, absolutely nothing happened.
Now I should probably mention that it had fairly unusual brakes, where the brake disks where attached to the drive shafts at the gearbox.
What had happened was that the bolts that fastened the disks to the gearbox somehow got ripped off. Removing the brake calipers with it.
I ended up rolling a couple of kilometers before the speed went down so far that I could stop the car by breaking using my feet.
Had it broken down basically anywhere else I would have had a serious accident.
My father obviously had a hard time believing that I really didn't do anything, tasked me with repairing the car.
So I had to exchange a smashed gearbox. This would normally not be a to hard thing to do. Except on this car. There was a welded beam between the front fenders that prohibited me from lifting the engine out of the car. I had to dismantle the front of the car and lift the engine out horizontally before I could exchange the gearbox on this piece of sh*t car.
The whole procedure took me two weeks.
As a comparison, it took me two hours to exchange the clutch on a Ford Granada I owned later.
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1972 ex British Gas Series 2A Landrover.
Could go absolutely anywhere, except past a petrol station without stopping...
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A simca something-or-other.
I bought it from a buddy because he needed the money, and he wouldn't have got twenty quid for it, elsewhere.
When it was running, it was a good drive.
I don't think I need to expand on that; I'm sure you can guess the rest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A '99 Mazda 626. I bought it when it had 80K miles (from a coworker) and it had no problems whatsoever. For the 40K miles I owned it, it was another story:
0: replaced both CV joints (at different times)
1: replaced multiple cheap relays for the cooling fans
2: replaced busted coolant tank (which I think resulted from #1)
3: replaced water pump / timing belt (as a result of #2)
4: the glue for the interior panels/headliner did not stand up well to a couple of hot Louisiana summers. I remember when the flapping headliner went beyond an annoyance to a safety hazard.
5: the CD player started skipping on good discs, especially when it was cold, and especially the last tracks were the worst.
6: the brakes had a nasty habit where the calipers wouldn't fully release. I'd have to pull the wheel off and use a c-clamp to push 'em back in...and by that time, everything was smokin' hot!
7: the A/C system sprang a leak. For a couple of summers I got by with the diy charging kits. Third time was a charm when the tiny leak finally gave way and the compressor seized. 
That's when my wife (gf at the time) refused to ride in it, and when I broke down and bought my first new vehicle which I still have today, now 10 y/o but with only 33K miles on it.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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10 years old and 33K miles? Oh you must tell more! There is a story here, I can smell it. 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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