Hagerty Insurance Poll

[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.

[Zorak]

I would agree the list is BS. Who are these "respondents"? 3 AMC's but no Italian or French cars? Styling is subjective, so labeling a car the "worst car of all time" just because you don't like its looks, is crap. Those AMC's all had love-it or hate-it styling (like, um, the VX ) but they had and still have their fans.

And the Pinto sold well for 10 years and the Vega nearly as long, so they must have not been that bad. It's easy to criticize them now, in 2007, but by 1970's standards they were actually pretty good considering what they cost. And Corollas and other Japanese cars from back then rusted out with a vengeance, even if they kept going mechanically.

Imo, a car for this list would be one whose styling neither pleased nor offended, just sort of bland, but whose mechanical reliability was so horrible that it was discontinued after only a few years due to poor sales, and hardly anyone now is interested in it. That would include the Renault Alliance/Encore, Eagle Medallion and Premier, Austin Marina, and Fiat Brava. In fact, just about any Renault or Fiat sedan from the 1970's or '80's would probably qualify!

[circmand]

Those in the know would know Hagertys from their great contribution to the era of collector cars. They sell inexpensive insurance to car collectors around the world. They also sponsor many programs and activities for these same enthusiasts. Their thousands of voters who decided the list are made up up of people who own vehicles from past eras and are quiet capable of deciding what they think are the standards for the voting. All vehicles on the list were chosen and voted on. The Poll sponsor did not name them or control what standards were used for voting.

[CrnCnn]

A guy i used to hang out with had an edsel he got from a coworker for like 500 bucks. I drove it home for him cause he didnt know how to drive a car you shifted from the column (3 on the tree?)

[nfpgasmask]

Speaking of AMC, an early 70s Javelin is still on my list of cars to own one day....

Bart