My high school car in '82. 1973 Gremlin X. Not just a Gremlin but an "X," which probably meant it just burned more oil. Of course mine had primer spots all over it. The front doors didn't work from the outside, so I had to crawl through the rear hatch to get in.

 

I don't have a picture to put on here, but I did have a Russian made Lada estate which was bright orange.
My Mother would try and disguise herself whenever we would go out in it!!!

 

The ugliest wyyyyy I own it right now. Can you spot it in the pic

I still love my truck though...even with the fugly UPS brown paint job & the rust marks
causing runs down the paint all over it. Hec it was the best $850 I ever spent

 

I had a 79 Ford econoline 150 van that had been rotting for 10 years prior to my paying $50 for it. I put a used battery in it, a squirt of fresh gas in the carb, and it fired right up. The body was falling down over the floor (from rust) and I had it supported with 2x4's so I could used the rear doors. 2 years later, I sold it to my uncle for $200, he drove it another 2 years until it blew up.
--Dan

 

Gremlin X's are very valuable cars today.

It probably had a 390 or a 401 in it. Lots of potential to be a very fast car. I really dont think they are ugly. I think its a great little car.



I dont think I could call any of my cars ugly. I loved them all equally.

 

Ugly?

I don't buy no stinkin Ugly cars. Why buy it:w ink:

 

I didn't own it, but a family member did.

 

LOL!!! The ugliest car I owned was my first car - a Vega GT Station Wagon - Lime Green.. I can't remember what year it was and I definitely don't have a picture to show off....ugggglllyyyy.....

Donna

 

My first was the worst - 1961 3/4-ton Chevy P/U. That year they apparently only made one color - oxidized mint green . By the time I got it 20 years later someone had welded a cattle guard on the front made from 3-1/2" drill pipe, spray painted white and so heavy it was like I was driving down hill the whole time . Of course when I hit that cow at 50 mph I was happy for it - no damage whatsoever (me, not cow).

 

Good thread !!

This one is easy for me. When I was stationed in Japan, I picked up a five year old Toyota pickup truck. The owner had just passed away and I got the truck for a measley $500. God bless his soul, the poor gentleman had rotten taste but I couldn't pass up the deal.

This truck only had 17,500 miles on it when I bought it. But even though it was low mileage, it was beaten up badly. The passenger side door has a huge dent in it that had caused extensive rust. The paint was so dirty, instead of the original white, it appeared to be... ummmm... dog **** yellow.
The wheels were obviously spray painted and were an awful shade of green... not quite pea, but close. To match it, he had made a roll bar out of a 2 x 4 and painted it the same color.

U G L Y !! But cheap. I drove that truck for the four years I was stationed there. Since it was one of only two pickup trucks I ever saw on the Air Force Base, people (most I didn't even know) often asked me to borrow it to move stuff. I let them, asking them only to fill up the tank with gas.

So four years of driving, one oil change, two washes, almost never paid for gas. And sold it for the same $500 I paid for it. Talk about cheap transportation !!

 

1948 Chevy 5 window 1/2 ton pickup. Bought in Phoenix in '90, attempted to drive home, twice, before hauling it up. Dumped a few bucks in it with just missing parts. Still a 6 volt system. A love/hate relationship. Gets more favorable comments when I drive it seldom than the MINI. Tired of "when you going to paint it?" If there was a Rolling Wreck Club, I would join it. Thought of doing an Art Car thing. Really gets you involved with the experience of hurtling down the highway at 50 mph, considering the drum brakes make it seem like you're stopping a locomotive.

 

86 honda accord.. carborated. ugly as sin. ran like a champ

 

Well, there's ugly-when-new, and ugly-due-to-the-ravages-of-time.

My ugly cars were of the latter category, mainly because until about a dozen years ago, I couldn't afford new cars. So, my list (in no particular order):

- a 1976 Chevy Nova: light gray w/red interior. It belonged to a friend of mine's father. My car had died and I was in a bind. The car was available because the friend's Dad up and left one day, so he just gave it to me. When I got it, it had about 140k miles on it, and was _completely_ worn out. It looked tired just sitting there. I drove it for about a week and a half before it finally gave its last gasp.

- a 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 - this, when new, was a cool looking car. Mine, hpwever was not new when I got it. It ran great. The exterior was yellow and completely rotted along the lowers. There was rust under the side trim, or what was left of it, and it ran down the doors over time. The brown vinyl top was in shreds. The tan/brown interior was a mess. All the seats were ripped, the driver's seat pretty badly.

- a 1967 Chevy Impala (I think) 4 door sedan. Previous to my owning it, it was painted puke blue with a brush. Other than that, it didn't look too bad.

I don't have any pictures handy (yet) of any of these cars because I owned them way before digital cameras were even available. If I can find the pics, I'll scan them and save them digitally, just for s#i+s and giggles.

Zip

 

It had a 5.7L TPI V8, 5 speed tranny, and a complete suspension kit.

What it lacked in asethetics, it made up for in fun!

 

Sadly, my first car was a 74 Mustang II.
I don't have a photo, but it is indelibly etched in my mind forever.
Uhgg!

 

Ha ! That was my very first car, too. What color was yours ? Mine was an orangy-yellow color with one of those half vinyl tops (remember those ?). It had wire spoke wheel covers and NO GUTS (thanks to the 1973 oil embargo).

 

This oughta cover all the bases:

http://www.tocmp.com/pix/Ford/images...%20art_jpg.jpg

Zip

 

Sadly my gremlin had a an oil eating straight six. It could have been fast if you gutted all the AMC parts from it.

 

I have to own up to having a red mach1.
It's hard to belive now, but at the time I was happy to get it.

Jeez, now I feel like I'm at an Ugly Car Anonymous meeting.

 

'53 Plymouth sedan that had been brush painted powder blue and white with flat latex house paint. Every time it rained the car left a big powder blue puddle, but the paint never seem to all come off.

 

the "before" pict was insane... looked like a fish i bought at a fish
market or something... the bottom pict was an intermediate
stage pict. looked pretty good with some lowering and larger
wheels, body kit.

 

Oh yeah, made famous by the original Charlie's Angels.

 

I've never owned a truly "ugly" car....they've been, for the most part, "boringly indifferent".

I guess the least aesthetically pleasing would have been my 1988 Mazda 323 Hatchback...base model in gold with tan vinyl interior.

 

My sister had one of these, she loved it

Fiat Multipla

 

Mine was in better condition than this one – went up and down the west coast it was one big long party that lasted 6 months, the car finally died in Lake Tahoe, buried in snow and when the snow melted they towed it away to the junk yard – it was a great cruiser but a bad looker