Thread: World's Ugliest Car!

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If I had the money/ time and knowladge I would reskin/ remodel my '67 Falcon into a '67 Mustang 4dr... I'd need a donor Mustang tho, and that defeats the purpose of re skinning the Falcon.. it would be real hard I'd think to restructure the car into a H/T 4dr.. lots more than I have in time and experience.

VIKING where is the photo of the 1962 Dodge Dart 4 door . I know that if any one can find it you are the one COOL TANGO

Another fugly pic.

Beauty is in the eye....but those old Darts were hell for tough! We had one ('62 2-door HT) that hit a rock pile on top of a hill, flew 411 feet, measured by the RCMP, landed sideways and skidded that far again , and stayed right-side-up! I still have the cop photos. Had a 354 Chrysler Firepower in it.
They also had the best coefficient of drag of any passenger car built up to then.

Now here is an opportunity to bring up some long lost history for me... and not a very positive one at that

In a land long, long ago my parents purchased a 1962 Dodge Lancer with a push-button transmission, slant six and no radio! Pride and joy rulled the day out on the home farm with the latest in detroit's imagination sitting in our old chicken coop that was now a garage for the new car.

Years go by, we move into the city and my sister and I grow up and head off to college. As an older brother it was my responsibility to drive my sister up to her school about 100 miles away. Since we still had the Lancer and my mustang was on shakey terms with something again, we took the Lancer.

After a routine route up the valley to my sister's school I was free to roll!

To cut a long story to a medium story I ended up over at the coast where some coast guard friends lived to enjoy the beach nightlife. But during the day, there wasn't much going on so we decided to grab a case of our favorite beverage and head up into the hills and see how far this mighty Lancer could take us!

After navigating some of the dirtiest, roughest, narrowest trails we could find, we decided to head back down to town to replace our favorite beverages. Now en-route we started to play games with mailboxes and swerving back and forth to do who knows what when we went around a corner to a dirt road, since the car was already dirty I headed for a great big puddle in the middle of the road to wash off the car

This wasn't a puddle, it was one of the great lakes!

Memories are dulled by time and outside influences but I had sunk the Lancer!

Now back up the road a ways was a farmer who was pulling in hay up the road. I walked out there and asked if he could possibly find a way to help out a wayward soul?

He had seen me go by earlier and sort of scowled at me and then said "I remember when I was young and stupid, hop on and lets go pull you out of that puddle"

Now my mind was whirling right now...in more ways than one! What was I gonna tell my folks about their daily driver? That I was now a submarine? Complete with a radio that I put in for the trip? I was doomed!

The gool Lord was watching out for me this day because when we got back to the scene of the attempted floating, the guys had the hood up and were looking happy. While the Lancer was leaning towards the driver side with water over the armrest of the drivers doors, water on the other side of the car was just a few inches deep on the passengers side. The slant six was slanted the right way so the exhaust manifold was just about 2 inches above the water surface. In addition, the back of the car was a bit higher and the gas cap was above the water! We pulled the car out and it started right up!

Off we went for more fishing, figuring that the Lancer had past every single test that three 20-something guys could dish out!

Of course I tried to air out the Lancer but it never got rid of that wet car smell! I explained it to the folks as a result of carrying those huge fish that we caught in the back seat. Some years later (1995???) my dad donated the car to a junkyard or auction place and our Lancer was gone

30 some years of abuse, punching transmission buttons at the wrong time, laughing at the way the car rolled around corners, trailblazing all without a whimper or a complaint!

Sorry for being so longwinded, but the '62 Lancer truly was ugly and this was a story I had to tell!

Many thanks to the tractor guy who was really doing God's work that day!

For those who weren't around then, the beginning of the 60's ushered in "compact cars" (yeah the Rambler came earlier but wasn't a trend maker yet)......................yeah, even then people whined about the price of gasoline.

Anyway, Ford did the Falcon, Chevrolet the Corvair (joined by the Chevy II in 62), and Ma Mopar the Valiant and Lancer. After 62 they moved the Dart name to the redesigned compact. Here's the Lancer in all it's glory.

...........back to the thread.........how about a "fat ugly car"

Originally Posted by viking

...........back to the thread.........how about a "fat ugly car"

Wasn't this one designed by the Michelin Man? Looks like the Mazda Miata....after it grew up!

....or maybe it is the latest generation of air bag technology, moving them to the outside.

These are FUGLY??

I can't decide between "ugly"......and "weird". :-)~

Those 3 wheelers are way kewl!!!!!

As for the other thing, looks like somebody had a whole case of that expanding foam stuff explode on their car!!!!

The name on one of the 3-wheeler files made me curious, so I Googled it. Borgward was a German brand. They made a wide range of odd cars.

I also Googled 3-wheeler. Here are a few of the things I found in the process!

these 3 wheel cars look like they came out of a Mr. Bean episode.

While hunting pics for this thread I ran across this 59 cad,
but now it's growing on me except for the color,

thats so awesome!