Without doubt mine was a TR7. It spent more time on the back of an AA truck than on the road. Mind you I had a Golf that the back axle came away as I got off the A19.

Then there was an Cavalier which was well out of alignment and scrubbed off a set of tyres in 2000 miles. A Fiat 127 with a hole in the petrol tank so you could never fill it more than half way.

where do I start.........

I've just realised that half full was a fiver. Oh happy days.

Hillman Super Minx for me - not dissimilar to the picture below. The brakes went whilst driving through London - fortunately I managed to stop by using the hand brake. Big roomy car - I didn't like it at all and had only bought it as the car I was really after, a Sunbeam Rapier had been sold.

My first one was my worst one, the Fiesta with the dodgy valve seats and shagged out 1100 engine.

An MG Metro. It broke down on me on way back from watching pools at Bolton, radiator fooked. 4 bottles of rad weld ( borrowed from service stations ), got to middlesbrough, 2 eggs later and made it home smoke pouring from the frigging thing.

Anyway, apart from that the exhaust went, new battery, and then suspension started leaking, all this in space of 3 months!!

I advertised it in autotrader and sold it to a fella from Darlo!!!!

Btw , we won at Bolton, not sure if it was 1-0 or 2-1 and the bolton fans coined us with 10p pieces.

Mind you I did once have an Audi A4. A 1998 model it was, it kept packing up each and every time I drove it.

I've not had any absolute dogs, but the worst was probably a Fiat Punto. It wasn't that it was a particularly bad car, it was just when something went wrong it cost.... Doing a day trip to a home game one time the clutch went - had to sleep at my folks house then get the RAC to tow it back home, repair bill was a couple of hundred, couple of months later the brakes needed doing and they also needed to do the exhaust - which was in 2 sections not 3, immediately putting the price up. The space saver spare wheel was also a pain, after getting a puncture on another home game day trip I had to drive back along the A19/A1/M1/M62 with it on, at a speed of max 50MPH.... Then the Head Gasket went.

I had the car for about 5 years so it wasn't exactly all in three months, but I got rid as it was just costing more and more to keep it on the road.

You never at any stage took it to Paris did you? just wondered like.

The furthest south it ever got was the car park at High Barnet Tube Station....

I was most disappointed when I went to Paris on a business trip a couple of years ago, I didn't see the Eiffel Tower at all. This should not be allowed, if you can't see the Eiffel Tower how do you know you're even in Paris?

Anyway, Enschede was better. I got to meet one of the top guys in the FC Twente supporters club and talk about Rob McKinnon.

I must have been very lucky over the years. I've hardly had any trouble, Nissan Sunny 82 reg, Ford Sierra 88 reg, Peugeot 405 94 reg, now this Almera 02 reg. Even an old 78 reg Audi Avant (my first car), which was probably the worst thinking about it, but I didn't do too many miles in that compared to the others.
The worst thing that happened motor-wise travelling up and down the country watching Pools, (apart from a couple of flat tyres which are a minor inconvenience at the time until you change them), was the petrol mixture was too rich jn the Audi coming back from Cardiff about 1986 time, and basically the lads had to keep handing over their dosh for more petrol than we bargained for, until we got home

like Mr I says, percentage of your income-wise, petrol didn't seem that expensive back then. I shudder to think what it would cost to re-enact that journey now, with the same car!!!!!!!

VW Polo.. an absolute mare, totally unreliable...it looked immaculate, but was only fit to use round town....for towing purposes

My first car, a Red 1978 Mini

No brakes, engine used to drink oil like Mutters drinks John Smiths, the engine was so fooked it used to run on when the key was removed and the only way to stop it was to pop the clutch


The furthest I got in it was Redcar, and absolute mare, perhaps I shouldn't of bought if from the brother in-law of my brothers mate called 'dodgy Al'

i suppose it was one of my beetles
a J plate the original j plate not a 91 but a 71/72 and i had bought a dolomite from clock garage but within 3 months the engine went and in the old days the garage was responsible for fixing it not like the crap deal these days
anyway i digress so while they were trying to find a second hand engine they lent me a beetle it was a flying machine 1500cc engine BUT very very dodgy brakes and 1 day i was visiting a friend in sheffield and their lass was bad and got the emergency doctor out and i went into sheffield city centre to the chemist in the days when on a sunday shops were shut and the chemist on rota was open for an hour and was struggling to find it and seen a copper parked up on a roundabout so stopped jumped out of the car and asked him where it was in the meantime the car rolled back so i stopped the engine and put it in gear and the bastad copper checked the car over and done me for the brakes meaning a 6 month ban as i already had 2 speeding endorsements and in the 70's 3 endorsements and you were banned not like today.
the good news was when the ban was up the dolly was fixed

No contest - a Lotus Elan S4SE. Not for nothing is it said that the word Lotus stands for Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious. Collapsed rear suspension was the last straw and it went back whence it came with threats of The Sale Of Goods Act being enforced if no refund was forthcoming. It forthcame!
larry60.

The rover 25 i bought from a car retailer in Usworth road. Wont say the name incase of any legal implications. Needless to say this said car lasted me 4 months before the engine blew up.

My worst motor has got to be a h reg 91 escort van mk5 ex PO, had lots of problems in the space of a couple of months new clutch, gearbox, diesel injector pipes which used to snap frequently, the final straw was when i had some ladders on the roofrack and forgot to tie them on! Straight over the roofs of two cars at the traffic lights just my luck they were quite new as well. still paying now through insurance.

Yeah, but it was extremely environmentally friendly.

It emitted zero exhaust fumes into the atmosphere, well, not until you opened the windows anyway.