WORST car EVER! - Page 2

Morris 1100 · 18 Jan 2002, 08:52 (Ref:200520)

Yeah I remember the washing machines had a habit of electrocuting housewives...................
But Lightburn made some good electric drills. My father had one and it had some serious grunt, if the drill bit jammed the drill would just spin out of your hands and twist the cord around itself (or twist your arms out of their sockets. Now if only the Zeta had that much power!
Now about their cement mixers and hydraulic jacks..........

Ray Bell · 20 Jan 2002, 11:41 (Ref:201630)

Quote:

Originally posted by Valve Bounce
I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT ANYONE ACTUALLY REMEMBERS THIS FUNNY CONTRAPTION......I don't know where they got their engine from, but I wouldn't be surprised if you told me it came from a bored out lawnmower engine.....

Not only do I remember them, I saw one or two and I feel sure they did finish the 1964 Ampol... a feat of some merit.

The web page quoted gives the information that the engine was a Villiers of 354cc... probably it was used in a lawnmower somewhere or other.

As for the Lightburn washing machine, these were twin-tub machines and the washing tub had a rubber sleeve that fitted over the top to prevent water splashing into the works. If it perished (if? ... more like 'when') there was a risk... ours had race tape to overcome the problem.

BeerMonster · 22 Jan 2002, 13:19 (Ref:202672)

with out a doubt it has to be the daewoo nexia what a piece of ****

Bluebottle · 22 Jan 2002, 22:46 (Ref:202968)

Wasn't the Nexia the one that looked like an Astra with the edges melted away? One of the first Daewoo cars sold in the UK. Not a good car, although not very high in the ugly list, especially amongst the current crop of Cloneboxes!

**touringlegend** · 23 Jan 2002, 00:28 (Ref:202986)

Yes it was basically a Astra through and through. There'd only be slight modifications to the bodywork to 'distinguish' it from the real Vauxhall/Opel Astra.

AndyF · 23 Jan 2002, 10:02 (Ref:203078)

I couldn't agree more! If you want to see one(but I don't know why) go to this site:

www.findit.co.uk/uk/cars/daewoo/187922.htm

Dave Brand · 27 Jan 2002, 12:09 (Ref:205194)

I've driven a few bad ones!

Austin Maxi - allegedly five gears, but your chances of finding all of them were virtually zero.

Morris Marina - loads of understeer, no brakes.

Austin Allegro - what were they thinking of?

Chrysler Alpine - no need for a radio, you'd never have heard it above the rattle of the engine......and a worse gearchange than the Maxi!

Fiat Regata - the warning lights were apparently programmed to come on at random.

Austin Metro - this was a hire car in Portugal. The perfromance seemed acceptable, but nothing special; then I realised that the speedo was calibrated in km/hr, not mph!

Notice how many of those were products of our own dear BL?

Amaroo Park · 1 Feb 2002, 01:19 (Ref:207956)

Haveing thought of this some more the ugliest most hidioues car ever produced was the 1988 VL Commodore Group A (Walkinshaw).

Ray Bell · 1 Feb 2002, 01:43 (Ref:207964)

Quote:

Originally posted by colinbond
Haveing thought of this some more the ugliest most hideous car ever produced was the 1988 VL Commodore Group A (Walkinshaw).

Agreed, it was pretty wierd, very overdone...

Yet people still bought them and drove them proudly down the street!

Alan Jones · 1 Feb 2002, 04:31 (Ref:208011)

Well said Colin, they were an ugly piece of work without a doubt.

DAVID PATERSON · 1 Feb 2002, 07:48 (Ref:208047)

I love 'em and desperately wanted one when they were new, would still love to have one now for a weekend toy.

Ray Bell · 1 Feb 2002, 10:26 (Ref:208079)

David, how could you?

This is the nearest you can get to rice in an Australian Car!

Morris 1100 · 1 Feb 2002, 13:14 (Ref:208128)

Ye gods it's a plastic pig!

Ray Bell · 1 Feb 2002, 13:26 (Ref:208137)

Do I hear an SU fuel pump ticking?

Bluebottle · 1 Feb 2002, 20:17 (Ref:208378)

You really have to wonder what goes on in a designers head sometimes! (speaking only about the looks ot the thing.)

Ray Bell · 1 Feb 2002, 20:52 (Ref:208429)

It's an aero package done for Walkinshaw to enable the car to get on competitive terms with the Sierras... Perkins raced his for years...

Bluebottle · 1 Feb 2002, 23:59 (Ref:208672)

In that situation, the look of the car is unimportant- and it's all subjective of course!

Thinking of ugly cars, I recently found out that the design of a well known kit utility vehicle from the South of England (I have one of these cars, it fell out of the Ugly Tree from a great height and then climbed back for another go!) was actually not finished when the manufacturer picked it up and put it into production- the designer wanted another six weeks to tidy it up!
How often does this happen in the mainstream car world?

mtpanorama · 2 Feb 2002, 04:29 (Ref:208716)

Gee thanks for the photo Ray, I've now got to clean my lunch up off the floor. That was the ugliest peice of shyt to ever be incarnated at holden.

Ray Bell · 2 Feb 2002, 11:34 (Ref:208806)

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Originally posted by Ray Bell
It's an aero package done for Walkinshaw to enable the car to get on competitive terms with the Sierras... Perkins raced his for years...

Hang about... was this incarnation developed by the Brock crew, before the Walkinshaw takeover that was precipitated by the polariser affair?

Morris 1100 · 2 Feb 2002, 12:06 (Ref:208813)

I read a story about the Triumph TR7 and that the designer kept having his designs knocked back so he designed a horrible wedge shaped car and submitted the design............................

Leyland's Management loved it and it became the TR7

Does anyone remember the TR7 bumper sticker:
"I did it in a TR7"
"What a Triumph!"

Bomn · 2 Feb 2002, 13:04 (Ref:208855)

That photo is not the real plastic pig as it has the half asred headlight covers.

Morris 1100 · 2 Feb 2002, 13:10 (Ref:208862)

Is that a HDT or a HSV?

Bomn · 2 Feb 2002, 13:41 (Ref:208884)

That is the HDT prototype before HSV took over . After the polariser affair HDT had nothing left to do but to go fishing. HSV found out about this plastic thing that the HDT boys were into but could not find the blueprints but heard that it had a lid as big and as flat as a dining table ....

Morris 1100 · 2 Feb 2002, 14:00 (Ref:208896)

And that is how the VL Walkinshaw happened.

Bomn · 2 Feb 2002, 14:05 (Ref:208900)

Quote:

Originally posted by Ray Bell

This is the nearest you can get to rice in an Australian Car!

this is closer

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