What Are Some of Your Best/Worst Car Stories?

Let's recount some of our best/worst car stories. What is your worst car breakdown story? What is the most dangerous thing you’ve ever done in a car? What is the worst car you’ve ever owned? What is the car that brought you the most joy? Let's also talk about what cars we might envision in our future garages. Today I’ve invited my friend Charles over to the studio and we’ll talk about all this and more.

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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Favorite Car I've Owned?
2:03 - Least Favorite Car?
3:16 - Ghost Riding!?
4:23 - Cars We Want!
7:22 - Bring Back Sedans!
8:41 - Daily Drive a Movie Car?
10:02 - Worst Breakdown Story?
11:30 - Best Breakdown Story?

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Music used in this episode:
- Selected tracks from the YouTube music library

[HelloRoad]

What are some of your memorable car stories? What do you want in your dream garage?

[tonywellington]

worst car i’ve owned : saab 900s

really enjoyed this video brother!

[therealandrewwilliam]

My most memorable car story is driving from SoCal to Houston to pick up my first car. It was a 1985 Mazda RX7 with only about 15k miles on it in 2000. We drove a car out that my uncle had purchased and swapped him for the RX-7. Now, this car was purchased new by my dad in 1986 when he worked for Mazda HQ, and was doing inspections and found he. He bought it, and saved it. 1.1L carbureted with a manual, manual windows, and drum rear brakes. My uncle had been string it for us since we moved to CA about 10 year prior. Seemed like a good idea to do some basic maintenance, and then drive it 2000 miles back to CA. The trip was pretty good until my dad decided at a Hardee's stop it was my turn to drive. I was 14 and had not driven a manual ever. First step was getting up the hill out of the parking lot and back to I-10. I kept stalling trying to get it out until my dad calmly looked over at me and said, "I thought you would be better at this." I promptly revved to about 3k and dropped the clutch and went. Then about 500 miles from home, the carb that was likely gunked up, and a fuel system that was also likely dirty from sitting starting acting up. The car would only get going by dropping the clutch every time we stopped. It would chug and rev oddly the rest of the way. I opened one of the vents to fresh air and a big chuck of dust and dirt hit me right in the face. It was a great trip, and 20+ years later the car has 54k miles, and is still like new in my garage.

[BigNiz]

Favorite car? My dodge grand caravan. Also has been the most fun. Worst probably Chevy Malibu. Best break down was in a 1997 Saturn SL1 Sedan manual shift. Water pump blew up in northern Ontario. Got drunk with a bunch of french doods while it got fixed! Cars i want: land cruiser, Benz 500 E amg, C8, 1980's GMC Custom Deluxe truck, golf gti, Supra, 4Runner, fiero, G Wagon

[thebluexb]

To contrast your blue xB, may I suggest a red BX? They would be polar opposites, even coming from opposite sides of the world!

[therealandrewwilliam]

Cars I want in my garage one day; 1st gen Viper, CLK63 Black Series, 1994 Mazda MX-3 GS (V6), 1988 Mazda 323 GT, 2002 C43 AMG, Saleen Explorer, Lexus ISF, 2005 E55 AMG Wagon, SRT-4 Neon, Ferrari 550, and way too many more to name.

[petescarport]

Love love love this video. Sl500 trust me buy one. Any 16valve car from the 80s and 90s are insane.

[DaveSchrenk]

Really enjoyed this Ethan. Thanks for sharing.

[axtran]

Former Corrado owner here. Your Scirocco horror stories made me have PTSD, Ethan!

[retrocar]

Love BXs, always a treat to see one of those on the road.

[mrjsv]

Cool stories and love the stuff in the background, Commodore 64! Nice diecast cars too, I have the same Matchbox Porsche 928 and Jeep Cherokee from the 80's, my childhood toycars 🙂

[Ronnie_S]

6:22 I'm not good with geography, but this commercial clip looks like a Citroen BX was being driven in the Southwestern desert of the U.S. despite never being sold in America (unless it was the Australian outback instead 😅)

7:32 full-size spares (tires), not even sure if new cars have spare tires (the tiny 'donuts') at all.

[RetroCarsForever]

Car genre that needs to come back...Cute small 2 door SUV convertibles!!

[danielberning]

Fun video to watch and listen to. Not normally the content you expect whcih made it all the more fun.

[TheersOwn]

My dream garage would definitely include an imported car we never got in the states, even though I live in California. I would love to have a Chevrolet Firenza Can-Am and a SEAT Leon.

[DragPakMerc]

I got that exact GE clock radio as a birthday present in 1979 or 80.

[okjeffy]

When I was a kid, my dad was taking me and my brother to the mall. The car broke down and me and my family spent the entire day at a convenience store until our minivan got fixed, missing out on the mall.

[nigel-Rollercam-channel]

I bought a car, in this case a car with an all aluminum 32 valve V8 that had a broken timing belt. It was an interference engine so I was expecting the worst. Anyways new timing belt, idler pulleys, tensioner, damper and water pump and it was fine, thankfully! The previous owner had told me the T-belt had broken at idle so I figured without the kinetic energy of RPM behind it I may be ok. As well the oil pump is driven by the T-belt. I appreciate all of your uploads!

[Yourmission]

The car I’m actively looking for is a 1989-93 dodge spirit, that was my first car, no frills, shared a 4 cylinder from an Audi with all of 89hp. It wasn’t fast but it got the job done and had my first makeout sesh in one (ooh I’m being too spicy for youtube)

[davidjensen]

Chevy still makes the Malibu, which I have owned 4 of, including 1 Malibu Maxx. Also Ethan, you forgot to mention the Transport, Silhouette, or Lumina APV.