Biggest pile of crap you ever drove

1986 Chevy Sprint Plus. I got this POS, new during the summer of 1986. The 'Plus' meant I had the automatic version. The left rear door flew open while I was driving it, one week after I bought it. Fortunately it was small enough that I was able to drive with my right hand and hold the door closed with my left hand until I got to Rickels where I purchased rope and duct tape to hold it closed.

It had a 3 cylinder Suzuki engine (so much for buying American)
It fish tailed like a mermaid if it even thought it was gonna rain. My dad put a 50 lb. bag of sand in the back to give me some ballast.
It would sometimes not start on cold, damp mornings.

 

Late 50s early 60s Dump truck Cant remember, or never knew, It had a Shift for everything, Even the Dump box. You had to have the correct one in place before you could operate the Dump, It rattled, shook, boomed, jerked, smoked, etc. Looked like a old farm dump with 10 years of parts on it.

 

...and 50+ MPG. Get that out of a Prius—not gonna happen.

Sure they were a dog, but you could fill the 8 gallon tank for next to nothing. And they got unbelievable miles per gallon (the stick-shift models anyway).

I wish I could find an '86 Sprint right now for a reasonable price. Every time I see one though, they want a fortune for it.

 

B model Mack........took 3 days to figure out how to steer & shift both handles. Also COE International 9670 with those printed circuit electrical boards that kept breaking in the middle of the night.

 

Had to be an early 70's White coe. The most aggravating truck i've ever driven is the 08 Mack i drive now, with only 74K on it so far it's been on the hook 5 times along with other problems. I only run a 200 mile radius from the yard, but i feel i like should pack a suitcase with me. I hate to complain about new equipment, but this thing is a turd. That old White was a rough piece, but i always made it back home.

 

This is true I think I averaged about 45 miles per gallon with the automatic. Still, not bad though. Gas was so cheap back then I couldn't put $10 in because it would have overflowed onto the ground. And once the gas light came on you still had 30 miles you could drive.

 

two of them 72 pinto and an 88 monte carlo. Both were held together by the rust and both looked like they went thru a war zone!!!

 

yeeup!! me too and we had an old gas engine in it and had a flat bed mounted on it we used to do bed buggin in the old days. like an old 440 chrysler or some sh^%$ anyway, i would mash on it hard when we would come up on an overpass and then when were under the bridge i would let off on it and it let out the loudest backfire youve ever heard !oh some funny ####t right there we would laugh your buts off

 

I would gladly take a whole truck too...

check out my "trucking photo's"

its my grandpa's 75 that he owned when my dad was in high school. my reasons are entirely sentimental

 

1972 white /gmc cabover single axle 10 speed roadranger armstrong steering we sat on a bucket cause the seats burned up in the fire,you had to open the driver door to get her into 6th gear because the linkage was so loose it would slam into your right thigh...had to have the right size screwdriver for the ignition while your teammate held down the wire to the glowplug bypass under the dash to get her started.
every once in awhile the steering wheel would come off down the road if you did not do your pretrip thoroughly