Thread: What is the worst car you have ever driven?

Originally Posted by jonesfam

Worst car I've driven was some sort of little Holden a girl friend had back in the 70's, I can't remember the name of it but for some reason I remember the motor was called "Starfire" or similar. Didn't go, didn't stop, didn't handle!

Jonesfam

The Starfire(better known as misfire) motor was the first 4 cyl commodore. About VC or VH. It was also used in some Toyota Corona's, RT 104 comes to mind.

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

The Starfire(better known as misfire) motor was the first 4 cyl commodore. About VC or VH. It was also used in some Toyota Corona's, RT 104 comes to mind.

And Sunbirds, a renamed Torana.

Sunbird, that was the thing. Horrible little car.
Jonesfam

Worst and only car I've owned, JB Camira. I have to come clean I had one, used more oil than fuel and rusted by the day, gutless, pinged like **** regardless of what fuel you put in even after checking the timing but just plain awful but at 18 when you're given a car for free as bad as it was it was transport.


After that I bought my first Rangie and been a Land Rover owner ever since. I do have a 99 AU falcon ute for work but despite it's being on the list of being unreliable mine has been fine and it's not exactly pampered!!


My mum bought a Sunbird (UC I think) what a pile of crap that was, done 2 head gaskets in 18 months and got rid of it. Previous to the POS sunbird was a TC Cortina 6 cylinder that was hard to kill til the front end collapsed and that was the end of the old Cortina. Dad had a 4 cylinder Cortina, that was also awful probably why I hate 4 cylinder cars as a whole it was bred into me from a early age.

Trav

Did they also apply the Starfire name to any Gemini engines?

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Did they also apply the Starfire name to any Gemini engines?

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Gemini engines were Isuzu.

Originally Posted by dungarover

Worst and only car I've owned, JB Camira. I have to come clean I had one, used more oil than fuel and rusted by the day, gutless, pinged like **** regardless of what fuel you put in even after checking the timing but just plain awful but at 18 when you're given a car for free as bad as it was it was transport.


After that I bought my first Rangie and been a Land Rover owner ever since. I do have a 99 AU falcon ute for work but despite it's being on the list of being unreliable mine has been fine and it's not exactly pampered!!


My mum bought a Sunbird (UC I think) what a pile of crap that was, done 2 head gaskets in 18 months and got rid of it. Previous to the POS sunbird was a TC Cortina 6 cylinder that was hard to kill til the front end collapsed and that was the end of the old Cortina. Dad had a 4 cylinder Cortina, that was also awful probably why I hate 4 cylinder cars as a whole it was bred into me from a early age.

Trav

No wonder you hate 4cylinders... The good old missfiire, I drove one of them ... just once.... Hideous... They made that thing by grabbing there big heavy gutless 6cylinder and lopping 2cylinders off.... Creating an even more gutless boat anchor in the 4cylinder variety.

You needed to go European for 4cylinders back then. Due to the tax laws over in Europe, any engine over 2litres was heavily taxed. So they built some rippa 4cylinders for the time.

The Renault 16TS here has rated a few mentions, 1.6litre, all alloy (block, head). High mounted camshaft... You couldn't kill 'em. Would run at it's redline in top gear all day (160km/h from 1.6litres). This motor is from the 60's mind you.

Citroen GS .... I'd bloody near kill for this car, it's the only nice one I've ever seen adn it's bloody cheap (it would cost be $10K+ to build a car as good as that one from your average rusted out piece of junk).

1972 Citroen GS

1015CC ( yes 1.1litre ) air cooled flat four. The motor will spin too 8000rpm like a sewing machine. Monster sized crank shaft and small capacity allow it to rev like crazy. Will cruise at 150km/h from 1.1litres. A lot of V8's in the early 70's couldn't do 150km/h.

Little cast iron lump in the mini cooper S .... How much fun is that ... I owned a mini van as a paddock bomb too... Gee's it was fun, and it was amazing where I could drive something with no ground clearance (due to it's short wheel base).

There just the garden vaiety poor mans French cars... What about the twin cam italians jobs .... droooolll.... afla's etc...

seeya,
Shane L.

Renault 16, brilliant little engine. Pity about the rest of the car which was even worse than other Renaults. The front end fell to bits and the bodies turned into iron oxide quick smart. Other than the engine, a pile of junk.

The Holden 6 was not a big heavy engine but a lightweight compact engine. Euros and Brits made bulky heavy engines. Go have a look under a few bonnets some day.