Slowest car you ever had......

[GTOguy]

My bone stock 1915 Ford Model T. 20 hp. It would get up and go pretty good because it only weighed about 1200 pounds, but 45 mph was the fender-flapping top end.

[Rikki Z-06]

82 Pontiac J2000

[Anjdog2003]

Originally Posted by Old Ben

A 1912 Model-T i bought off the showroom floor.

[Thunder22]

'74 VW Super Beetle 58hp.

[simpleman68]

1984 Ford Escort diesel. 4 speed manual.

Scott

[Yesfam]

1980 Rabbit diesel. Had to shut off the A/C if you got stopped on a hill. It did get 50 MPG though.

[Frankie the Fink]

A '59 Impala I borrowed off my Dad's used car lot with just about no compression....zero to 60 times were in the minutes.... It was embarrasing to be seen in it.

[vettemed]

Had one of these when I lived in the Caribbean... was a slow turd but perfect island vehicle.

[Norm]

1960 Corvair, this exact same car, wasn't I the cool kid running around in a cool car............

[86RAG]

My 76 Vette... Chevette that is. God awful shitbox, but couldn't afford the gas in my 71 Monte Carlo big block. Damn do I ever regret that deal, worst trade ever

[snide]

Originally Posted by Datawiz

'75 Honda Civic

I had a '78 Civic CVCC.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by MEANZ06

'69 Fiat spider. Fun car but couldn't get out of it's own way

You had it tuned wrong.

[Yadkin]

Back when I owned a shop I traded a high mileage 2nd generation Expedition for a 3rd generation 4Runner with a blown engine and parts. After we put it back together the Toyota ran perfectly but was slow....

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by dvarapala

1973 Vega that burned 1 quart of oil per tank of gas.

That would be my pick also for the slowest of vechicles I ever owned. My wife of 3 years just had to have a 73 station wagon with a 4spd manual. Two years later it had to have a new engine put in (warranty)

[CurtP]

Originally Posted by Yesfam

1980 Rabbit diesel. Had to shut off the A/C if you got stopped on a hill. It did get 50 MPG though.

Learned to drive stick in a 1981 Rabbit diesel. 4 more HP than the 1980 (52 vs 48)! When dad was going to pass another car, he'd hit the fan switch to off to cut the A/C, drop a gear, pass, upshift, then hit the fan switch back on - all in one smooth motion. He'd even do it in the winter out of habit.

But the 1983 Malibu V6 diesel I bought at my first duty station was worse than the Rabbit. 85hp in a heavy shitbox. I'm still convinced that GM HP is about 1/2 of actual HP.

[bill_daniels]

Slowest vehicle I ever owned was probably my '84 Silverado with the crappy 305 c.i. engine. Gas guzzler, no power.....worst of all worlds. Still my favorite body style Silverado, though. Lesson learned, get the 350 next time.

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by RonC5

My wife had a 1972 Pinto when we married her.

Ummm..... You have reverse mormon stuff going on or what?


And my slowest vehicle was a 70's fiat 500 (yes, 500cc engine) with double pump clutch.

[MidLifeinMI]

Originally Posted by Murray

75 Datsun B210…that and my first car….71 Duster with a slant 6

Wife's 1st car was a '77 B210 - unsafe to freeway merge, even with a stick shift. Got rid of that as soon as we could afford to.

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by MidLifeinMI

Wife's 1st car was a '77 B210 - unsafe to freeway merge, even with a stick shift. Got rid of that as soon as we could afford to.

In California, thanks to metering lights at the end of each freeway on-ramp, you need a car that will go 0-70 in about 3 car lengths.

I asked a highway engineer once what the logic was and he told me 'safety'. I pointed out that on ramps were long for a purpose, to get up to traffic speed for a safe merge, and that pulling into a lane of 65 mph traffic at 3 mph was very dangerous. He didn't understand what I was talking about. Asian guy, and an engineer.

[bill_daniels]

Originally Posted by 86RAG

My 76 Vette... Chevette that is. God awful shitbox, but couldn't afford the gas in my 71 Monte Carlo big block. Damn do I ever regret that deal, worst trade ever

I learned to drive a stick in my then girlfriend's Chevette 4 spd, no A/C. Made the anemic 305 Silverado seem like a rocket ship in comparison.