Thread: What was your most Crap Car?

Not one that I have owned but rather it belonged to a former brother in-law so I got to drive it on occasion, Suzuki Mightyboy! They lived on a property between Lightening Ridge and Collarenebri, so a totally unsuitable vehicle and it came to be out there as the result of a drunken dare at the Diggers Rest pub one night.

It got bogged in the soft sand between the corrugations on the road one day so we actually picked it up and put in on the back of a WB ute with the dogs to get it home! It was a gutless piece of junk but just kept going and was regularly thrashed around the paddock and the track down to the shearing sheds. It was still sitting in a shed there when I last saw it in about '98. It would have been close to 20 years old at least by then.

The Mighty Boy was an awesome car if someone bought one to a large party or gathering (a friend use to do this regularly) - it became the esky for the evening with a bin liner and ice in the back - it was small enough that you could put it close to where everyone was without it getting in the way.

Pretty much useless for everything else though...

OK in response to how may cars.
In rough order
Austin A90
Austin a95
Holden EH( dad's but I drove it when he died)
Hillman Imp GT
Morris Major series 1(MGA engine)
Honda Scamp N600
MG Magnette ZA
Vauxhall Viva HA
Cortina GT
Whoops forgot Austin 1800 Mk1
Renault 16TS
Cortina TD XL250
Toyota FJ40 1974
VW Type 3 1600 wagon
Holden Jackeroo 1991

Renault 12
Mazda 323 RWD (malaysia)
BMW 520i(Malaysia)
Holden Commodore VC(malaysia)
Holden Belmont (Malaysia)
Nissan Patrol ( Thailand)
Range Rover 1981 (Saudi Arabia)
Nissan Pulsar 1500 (Saudi Arabia)

Another Holden Jackeroo this time 2.6 four door 1998?
Range Rover 1977
Daihatsu charade Turbo
Mazda 121
Porsche 924 Turbo
BMW E36 M3 ( forgot it for hours . How could I?)
Range Rover 1991
Discovery 2 TD5
Honda Jazz 2006
Honda Jazz 2006.5
Honda Jazz 2019
Company cars

Falcon XB 302
Falcon XC 302
Falcon XD 351 wagon
Falcon XD 250 wagon
Fairlane ZC 302
Fairlane ZD 351
Fairlane ZF 302
Escort Ghia 2l
BMW 323i( several including Motorsport)
BMW 528i ( several )
BMW733i (a couple)

Driven but not for long

Ford Galaxy ( drove Henry Ford 11 from the airport to office in Brisbane)
Whoops forgot drove 430 XY 4x4 Utes from Final Assembly to the gate)
XY GT (press test car and blueprinted. Fastest Ford driven including GTHOs)
XA GT Hardtop ( Yellow Glo. first car driven with aircon on a hot Brisbane weekend)
Escort 1300 GT
Escort Twin cam
Escort GT1600
Forgot Capri GT V6 (auto and manual)
XW GTHO
XY GTHO
TC Cortina ( Press test fastest Cortina ever driven)
Volvo240 ( loaner while my 323 loaned on press test)
BMW 635i( John Player racing car. drove from dock to be weighed by CAMS)
BMW 520i ( In Germany)
BMW 535i motor sport
Porsche 928
Porsche 928S4
Mini Cooper S 1275
jaguar XJ6 series 1 (Malaysia)
Mercedes190 (Malaysia)
Mercedes 230( Indonesia)
Chevrolet Suburban 350 ( Saudi Arabia)
Chevrolet Impala 350 (Saudi Arabia)
Pontiac whatever smallish car
Suzuki Swift
Forgot another couple
Toyota FJ60 4 speed in Saudi used for desert trips and taught 12 year old son to drive in
Land Rover 110 County 3.5 V8 5 speed ( AFAIR they were not Defenders in 1985. Only car I have driven that could not do over 65Mph into a strong headwind in 5th. Owned by British embassy and I cannot remember why I was driving it on a desert trip. It later lost a radiator when someone went down a too steep dune and dug in with the engine and transmission heading forward and taking out the radiator)

Motorcycles
Suzuki Hustler 250
Honda 350SL
Triumph Thunderbird
Benelli Tornado 650
Yamaha 1.1
BMW R100S (wish I still had it)
Kawasaki 750
Honda 900 Hornet

Company Bikes
R100S ( ex Castrol 6 hour Drum Racing so fast)
Krauser R100
R100 TIC ( Police bike)
R100
R65
Ridden
Harley 1340 chopper
Yamaha 650 Turbo

That is a few isn't it! Generally not including renters
Regards PhilipA

That's only 33 that you've actually owned Philip, and quite a mixture of brands - do you have trouble making up your mind?

I've owned 30 Land Rovers (no Rangies though) plus a few other cars (Holdens, Toyotas, Subaru etc) so nowhere near the variety or exoticness that you've experienced.

Phillip - this thread is not about a list of cars you have owned - there is another thread for that.

To follow what this thread is actually about - so out of that list "What was your most crap car?

To follow what this thread is actually about - so out of that list "What was your most crap car?

I responded to that earlier.
I was responding to the just earlier posts on how many cars that people owned.
It was just as easy to list them all to jog the memory and even then I forgot a few.
Regards PhilipA

That's only 33 that you've actually owned Philip, and quite a mixture of brands - do you have trouble making up your mind?

There are a few common themes I guess.
I never owned a Holden voluntarily . I got the ones in Malaysia because they were dirt cheap and the High Commission had a room full of Holden parts in the basement. Cars with engines over 2 litres were made too expensive to register . We had a great mechanic named Danny Mok and I once visited his workshop to see and old bloke spending three days to straighten the LH rear door on the Commodore with a couple of dressing woods just after I bought it . they painted it with JAM in its original colour.
Lots of European cheapies I guess and many for a purpose like the FJ40, Jackaroos, Range Rovers and the Type 3 that I jacked up and used off road often on Fraser Island.

Some of the crappier ones were second cars like the Austin 1800, the Renault 12,the Honda Scamp N600 and the FJ40, or poverty induced **** boxes when I was young and poor Like the HA Viva and the Morris Major and the two Austins.
Regards PhilipA

Originally Posted by Xtreme

That's only 33 that you've actually owned Philip, and quite a mixture of brands - do you have trouble making up your mind?

I've owned 30 Land Rovers (no Rangies though) plus a few other cars (Holdens, Toyotas, Subaru etc) so nowhere near the variety or exoticness that you've experienced.

I suspect he owns a couple of Diamond Mines in WA.


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