My old youth pastor came straight to New England from his home in Texas. He pulled up in a maroon El Camino and got out with the cowboy boots on & everything. He was a massive Air Force judo instructor and was a really influential guy in my life. I always look at an El Camino with those memories, so it's hard not to be biased! It was probably a terrible car in the snow!
@@MATTTHEGREETER I loved the El Camino. After high school my first job in 1968 was working at a Chevy dealership as a parts driver and they gave me an El Camino to drive (later a C10 pickup since it held more). I also got to drive all the new Chevy Camaros, Impalas, Novas etc. that the other staff were given also. It was a teenage boy's fantasy.
@@MATTTHEGREETER You're right about that. 🙂 A couple years ago "WatchJRGO" youtube channel got one (with the tent and other accessories) and fixed it up. What a blast from the past, but one I could have done without. 🙂
For ugly how about motorcycles? I think the Victory Vision qualifies. (I test rode one and it rode great but was ugly.) In 1975 my girlfriend bought a yellow Pacer, stripped down, 3 on the tree, no a/c, etc. (she didn't want to test drive it, so I had to before she bought it.) The Aztek didn't make sense since it was a SUV that lost all of the space with the fastback. I thought it was stupid but now all the SUVs are doing the fastback style. (The Gremlin was ugly, they took a regular car and just cut the back off of it. I rented one when my car was in the shop and there was just a little snow on the ground and we couldn't get it out of the rental car parking lot since there was no traction due to no weight over the back wheels (they had to rent me a different vehicle)......the 1970s movie I loved with the Gremlin was Brewster McCloud, with the license plate BRDSHT on it. Great (unknown) movie.
@@pcthayer My friends had a Victory bagger and it was absolutely hideous haha. They loved it and rode it well over 100K miles. It was pretty hard to look at!
@@MATTTHEGREETER They tried to make it look "Art Deco" with that look with all the sweeping lines. They succeeded in making it look different, but not in making it nice looking. (It seemed all the weight on the bike was low and made the bike real easy to ride. I may have bought one if it didn't look so hideous.)
I've seen them in Purple, Green, & the color my parents had, which was bright Yellow. It had bucket seats and they loved the car. I don't remember it because I was too young, but I still have the hood ornament!!!
My dad had a Chevy Citation... it was a little 5-speed in some kind of brown color. He drove the heck out of it, but sold it (just before I learned to drive!!) because my mom didn't drive manual. It was fun to drive with him because he wasn't afraid to drive it to its limit haha. I had a teacher that collected Chevettes. I wonder if he kept them? He's probably long dead by now. One was white and blue I think, and the other had darker tones.
@@pcthayer haha exactly. I was blessed one afternoon I had an evening class at the local community college. There had just been a snow storm. I was slowly making my way to class when I started going up a fairly steep hill and ended up doing a 360° and ended up in a ditch. It was almost dark. A guy stopped with a truck and got it hooked up, started pulling it out. The second he got it out, another truck comes from the opposite direction flying over the hill. He was going to fast and didn’t have time to stop. Slammed into the side of my chevette. That was the end of her. One of the happiest days of my teen years. 😂
I was trying to think of the ugliest cars and we have to consider foreign brands too. Saab Sonett II (had a fiberglass body and a 2 stoke engine), then there was the Mazda MX-3 (you could get the1.8 V6 in it that was smaller than most 4 cyl engines), the Triumph TR7/8 coupes that looked like a door stopper, and we can't forget the Suzuki X-90 (2 seater SUV)
First time I saw an X90 on the road, I yelled out loud in my car...."WHY?" It's ugly, it isn't a 2 seater sports car and it doesn't have the functionality of an SUV, so I have no idea what its purpose was.
A lot of people like El caminos and paneled station wagons but I tell you both of those scare me lol
My old youth pastor came straight to New England from his home in Texas. He pulled up in a maroon El Camino and got out with the cowboy boots on & everything. He was a massive Air Force judo instructor and was a really influential guy in my life. I always look at an El Camino with those memories, so it's hard not to be biased! It was probably a terrible car in the snow!
@@MATTTHEGREETER I loved the El Camino. After high school my first job in 1968 was working at a Chevy dealership as a parts driver and they gave me an El Camino to drive (later a C10 pickup since it held more). I also got to drive all the new Chevy Camaros, Impalas, Novas etc. that the other staff were given also. It was a teenage boy's fantasy.
@@MATTTHEGREETER 👍👍👍
I don't know what a Pontiac aztek looks like
You're not missing much haha
@@MATTTHEGREETER You're right about that. 🙂 A couple years ago "WatchJRGO" youtube channel got one (with the tent and other accessories) and fixed it up. What a blast from the past, but one I could have done without. 🙂
I remember that cheer lol
For ugly how about motorcycles? I think the Victory Vision qualifies. (I test rode one and it rode great but was ugly.) In 1975 my girlfriend bought a yellow Pacer, stripped down, 3 on the tree, no a/c, etc. (she didn't want to test drive it, so I had to before she bought it.) The Aztek didn't make sense since it was a SUV that lost all of the space with the fastback. I thought it was stupid but now all the SUVs are doing the fastback style. (The Gremlin was ugly, they took a regular car and just cut the back off of it. I rented one when my car was in the shop and there was just a little snow on the ground and we couldn't get it out of the rental car parking lot since there was no traction due to no weight over the back wheels (they had to rent me a different vehicle)......the 1970s movie I loved with the Gremlin was Brewster McCloud, with the license plate BRDSHT on it. Great (unknown) movie.
p.s. you want an ugly. Look at the 3 wheeled British car fromt the 1960s called the Bond Bug.
@@pcthayer My friends had a Victory bagger and it was absolutely hideous haha. They loved it and rode it well over 100K miles. It was pretty hard to look at!
@@MATTTHEGREETER They tried to make it look "Art Deco" with that look with all the sweeping lines. They succeeded in making it look different, but not in making it nice looking. (It seemed all the weight on the bike was low and made the bike real easy to ride. I may have bought one if it didn't look so hideous.)
Didn't Gremlins come in the color Purple lol?
You can't put gas in them after midnight. ("Don't feed them after midnight") (from the movie Gremlins for those who never saw the movie.)
My sister looked at a 1973 Gremlin with the Levi's denim package (seats were jean material). (She didn't buy it and got a 1973 Opel GT instead.)
I've seen them in Purple, Green, & the color my parents had, which was bright Yellow. It had bucket seats and they loved the car. I don't remember it because I was too young, but I still have the hood ornament!!!
@@MATTTHEGREETER very 😎
My first car was the ugliest. A ‘86 two tone blue/gray Chevy chevette. Absolutely hated that car. 😂
My dad had a Chevy Citation... it was a little 5-speed in some kind of brown color. He drove the heck out of it, but sold it (just before I learned to drive!!) because my mom didn't drive manual. It was fun to drive with him because he wasn't afraid to drive it to its limit haha. I had a teacher that collected Chevettes. I wonder if he kept them? He's probably long dead by now. One was white and blue I think, and the other had darker tones.
@@MATTTHEGREETER He probably bought them to impress the ladies by telling them "I own a Vette" 🙂
@@MATTTHEGREETER haha I can’t imagine wanting to collect chevettes! I guess everyone has their preferences. Definitely not a car I like.
@@roadkingrider6532 The Chevette was one step above the Yugo. (Sometimes "you go" most times you don't.)
@@pcthayer haha exactly. I was blessed one afternoon I had an evening class at the local community college. There had just been a snow storm. I was slowly making my way to class when I started going up a fairly steep hill and ended up doing a 360° and ended up in a ditch. It was almost dark. A guy stopped with a truck and got it hooked up, started pulling it out. The second he got it out, another truck comes from the opposite direction flying over the hill. He was going to fast and didn’t have time to stop. Slammed into the side of my chevette. That was the end of her. One of the happiest days of my teen years. 😂
I'm not talking smack about it but it doesn't appeal to me. I like cars that work and really don't care what they look like lol...😂
I was trying to think of the ugliest cars and we have to consider foreign brands too. Saab Sonett II (had a fiberglass body and a 2 stoke engine), then there was the Mazda MX-3 (you could get the1.8 V6 in it that was smaller than most 4 cyl engines), the Triumph TR7/8 coupes that looked like a door stopper, and we can't forget the Suzuki X-90 (2 seater SUV)
The Suzuki!!! I forgot about that one
@@MATTTHEGREETER I think "Red Bull" bought them all up and stuck a can in the back as a promotional advertisement. 🙂
First time I saw an X90 on the road, I yelled out loud in my car...."WHY?" It's ugly, it isn't a 2 seater sports car and it doesn't have the functionality of an SUV, so I have no idea what its purpose was.
To me, an uglier car would be a Kia with 75,000 mi on it that needs a new engine because it blew up lol
Haha! Yes! Now, are you talking from personal experience?
@@MATTTHEGREETER yes😁