Hagerty Insurance Poll

[VehiGAZ]

I got that Hagerty e-mail today too!

My sister bought me a little book called Crap Cars a while back, and some of the ones from the Hagerty list were in that book too (it's basically the top 50 or top 100 all-time crappiest cars). There are lots of bad ones out there beyond Hagerty's top-10.

[nfpgasmask]

Well, I would agree on all fronts, but for some reason I think the Gremlin is kinda cool and unique looking....

Bart

[etlsport]

id mostly agree.. although i hate to admit.. everytime i see an aztek these days i think how much they remind me of VXs.. a couople times i looked at them and thought wow that paint would look good on a vx

[Ldub]

id mostly agree.. although i hate to admit.. everytime i see an aztek these days i think how much they remind me of VXs.. a couople times i looked at them and thought wow that paint would look good on a vx

Whatever you're smokin', I want some...asstek & VX look alike ? ...

On a more serious note, I think the Ford Granada should be on that list somewhere. First wife had one when we met...married her anyway.

She wasn't so bad, car was total POS.

[Mark B]

The list is BS.
I had a 1973 AMC Gremlin X. 304 V8. Lots of power. That car was fast.
I bought it for just under $ 3,000. I sold 15 years later and got I thing around $ 1,500. I also had other AMC car and they treated me good.
When you are in your teens, who cares what the car looks like, you just wanted any car. Not like the kids today that want a brand new $ 30,000 car with no concept about maintenance and insurace costs.
Besides, those cars in the 70's, were made to be serviced by yourself and not take them to the dealers to be ripped off.

[circmand]

While in HS I would take any car I could get I still had awareness of the cool uncool factor. As for an AMC Gremlin POS my 68 Javelin would smoke it. The 70's cars had to be built to be worked on because they were always breaking down. Back then the average car lasted less miles than the current cars have warranty for now. The autoworkers union is responsible for the poor state of American car companies today because they protected lousy workers and for 20 years did not put out anything reliable. Hell a Toyota Corolla back then cost half of what the American cars were going for but outlasted them by 3x the number of miles.

[Techy-D]

I still got my 74 Gremlin. It's got atleast 234,000miles and the only major things I had to do was to replace the lifters and rear wheel bearings. It had enough power to bark the tires on the 1st to 2nd shift. It sat for about 6 or 7 years and is in fairly poor shape now, but I recently drove it about 25miles to my new place.
As with any car, Some were bad & some were good, but the looks never bothered me.