Here's a good one my best friend decided he wanted to get an iroc just like mine well I told him to wait to go look at this one like 5 hours away, and I would go with him seeing as I know a lot about these cars. Anyways he decided to not listen to me went and bought it, and boy did he make a mistake car died multiple times on the way home, needed a new alternator, blows oil out the oil cap and dipstick wont stay running at all anymore, has the most messed up wiring I have ever seen, has ford speakers squeezed under the front seats, car has been in multiple accidents, paint is terrible, mileage is unknown.....and the list goes on and on so he spend $4,200 bucks on a car that he has only drove for like 4 hours, and who knows how much money he has dumped into I dont even ask cause it's his own fault.......So moral of the story is if you don't know your stuff make sure you have someone look at the car for you before you buy it.

92RS, true that, having someone look at the car before purchase.

Living in europe it´s not that easy to find a decent US domestic vehicle, and most vehicles found are either far overpriced or projects halfway done.

I´ll translate currency and distances for convenience here, but I do live in Germany at the time.

With some $10 000 in cash I decided the time had come to buy a ar. I had some money returned from insurance after my last car got stolen. Up to here I had only owned european or japanese vehicles as is quite common in europe.

Being a bit of a car enthousiast I tried to find a decent rotary engine to work on, as I previously owned an 1989 RX7 for which the insurane gave me $6000 after it was stolen.

I happened to find a 1989 GTA in apparently good shape 3 hours driving from me so I contacted the guy, who happened to be a used car salesman buying his stock from a US army base nearby.

The GTA is my first horror story, and I ended up leaving it there. It was a original GTA, full options and the bodywork was, apart from some rust, in rather good shape. Driver side dor higes needed replacement but snce the car wasn´t new I let that slip.
The car however appeared to have less torque then a 1,3l rotary and stalled on me a few times during a test drive. I asked the shop owner to drive it and he had to step on it to keep the engine spinning. That car is still for sale today.

He happened to have a 1989 camaro RS on his parkinglot however, with 120 000 miles on it and in apparenty rather good shape. He showed me the papers. Car was a US domestic, imported by a US soldier stationed in Germany at the time, passed smog and technical test. (the papers turned out to be faked), was exported from germany to switzerland and imported back to germany 8 years after, which is two weeks before I purchased it.

In germany VIN needs to be on the passenger side shock dome, when I tried to register the car it appeared to be on there, but incomplete.

I had to go through bureaucratic hell to get the car registered to me, but made cerain to make the bureaucrats suffer in the process, ony to find out that the VIN was now complete but papers faked and the exhaust had some holes.
I dated the secretary registering the car to me in exchange for faking another smog test and letting me pass (I have to pass it about a year and a half from now).

After driving the car for a while (some 1500 miles) the chassis fan gave up and by now I fitted a dual fan setup according to willies instructions, incl. switch, swapped thermostat and found out that these cars really need an airdam. I´faricating one since getting these model specific parts in germany can be quite difficult.

All in all, I owned cars with fewer problems in the firs 6 months after purchase but I really like the car and plan on a full restauration somehere within now and the next two years.

I still have to date some more secretaries up untill I´m finished but if that helps me in doing things in the pace I prefer or can afford, then to me that´s worth it.

Up to date I paid $5500 for the car, $200 for registration, $50 for a dinner, $1000 in fixes, $1000 in taxes and $750 in insurance. The res went into a digicam.

LOL something kinda scary happened to me a few days ago actually...
I was driving my 91 T/A 'vert to my friends house who lives about 8 miles away. This was just after I threw the front bumper/fenders on temporarily since I was slowly working on the car. The weather became unusually nice for this time of year so I just wanted to take the T/A out before she's parked for the winter. I did a decent job putting the car together, I just skipped a few screws/bolts since I knew I was tearing it back apart rather soon. Anyway, I had just gotten off the highway and I had to slow down to about 10 mph to pass through a road work zone. I noticed that the construction guys were giving me strange stares (I was about to shout... "WHAT?! You've never seen a heterosexual guy driving a convertible?!") and once I pulled out of the road work zone and started speeding up, I noticed that the car was pulling pretty strongly to the right and a squealing/chirping sound was coming from the front pass. wheel. It didn't feel like a flat so I was expecting the worst... ie broken steering link etc. I crawled into a parking lot and found out that my front pass side inner fender came loose and was rubbing against the tire. It must've been doing that for a little while too since it was slightly melted (gotta buy a new one now )... apparently I didn't notice it while doing 85 mph on the highway. I kinda fudged the installation since I only used a few screws and apparently the wind ripped the inner fender off of them. I tucked it back into the fender and kept it under 35 mph for the rest of the trip... which was only about 1 mile. I got to my friends house and after explaining the situation, all I got was "smooth move ex-lax" and fortunately he had some screws I was able to bolt into it.

Now I know why those road workers were giving me funny looks.

Here's my story.........!

I have an 88 IROC thats my daily driver. Car runs and looks great for the most part. Have the big idea of taking the car on the Hot Rod Power Tour this year. Prep the car, replacing hoses, belts, waterpump......all the little stuff I thought could go wrong and a full detail to boot.

Start of on the first day of our trip to WI from DE.....about 900 miles. Its raining, and we decide to stop for dinner in the first hour out. I drop my g/f off at the front door of the resraurant and upon pulling away, catch the sidewall on the curb. I tear the sidewall, but not enough to flatten the tire. Decide to head back home for a new tire, since I don't trust anyone where we are at. Get the tire replaced and start out again the next day.

We get moving, again raining quite a bit. After about 4 hours, the rain lets up, and I hear the 9 bolt making some whining noise. Stop at a rest area and check the fluid. It's a little low, but not too bad. Decide to take a detour to Pittsburg and fill her up with fluid. Find an Auto Zone in the burg and fill it on the side of the road. My g/f watches to make sure I don't get run over.

Head out of Pennsylvania and into Ohio. Still hear the noise at certain speeds, but doesn't seem to be getting any worse, so we press on. Through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and finally Wisconsin. Getting off on the last exit at 1:00AM, we hear a banging in the rear. I say this things coming apart, but we did make it to the Hotel that night. Being a 9 bolt, its not like you can go get parts at the corner store. I call some buddies and everyones opinion is the same, try and drive it home, you might make it, you might not.....LOL.

So, here we are, at the hotel, cars all getting ready to start the first leg of the tour and we are heading home. We drove during the day and made it back in two days, banging and all. The most depressing vacation I had ever had.

Picked up a new NOS carrier on ebay and she is good to go now. Plan on trying again next year!

I got one since you mentioned your 9 bolt

Well, I had just spend a grip of time rebuilding my 9 bolt including machining the POSI cones, and shimming, and everything... Well, I finally get it all back together, do a test drive everything is good! Start DD the car again, and im driving with my buddy and I go around a turn and BANG, wheels lock up and everything... I get picked and floor it, screw the rear... Bang again, and rear starts knocking... WTF, everything I would take a turn hard it would bang... and everytime I let off the gas it starts knocking..

Well, I get it home, tear is apart... and a bolt had backed out of the carrier and got wedged in the gears... when I floored it, it chewed up the bolt and chipped my ring gear... I pulled out all the pieces and have been driving it with the chipped ring gear for ages, have taken it to the track twice... It has worked fine, just knocks on decel. I will pick up a LS1 rear when I finda good deal. I want bigger rear brakes anyway.

My turn... Bought my 87 Camaro 8 days ago, drives great, but knew the tranny was having some issues, talked the guy down to $1200. Drove it about twenty minutes home and after shutting it off and trying to stop smiling like a 6 year old kid with a new bike, i notice smoke/steam coming from under the hood, try to pop the hood.... it wont open. Im paranoid now, having just parted with a pretty thick stack of cash, after toying with it for about half an hour i get the hood to open, and breathing in enough antifreeze to kill a bear, i decided to try new hoses, and they didnt fix it, about this time i decided to go to the car wash since its like a minute down the road, and after a thorough washing, and realizing the paint is in GREAT condition, i try to start her up and go to the local auto parts store, well... it wont crank. Thankfully my buddy was with me washing his car, so we pull the battery and alternator, go get them tested, and theyre perfectly fine. So back to the car we go, after an hour of playing i finally get it started, and head straight to the parts store (O'Reilly's if you were wondering, and these guys were great). By now its dark, so i go ahead and park her there, the guys are fine with me leaving her for an overnighter, so i buy a radiator and new starter, and wait till morning... So i go back in the morning, and start work on the starter, and after about a four hour installation (stupid y-pipe is literaly just in the way, and 23 year old bolts dont like to come loose) i start her up, and she runs great, so now its time to do the radiator, but wait!!! theres a sale downtown on audio equipment, and i just have to go now, so i load up in my buddys car, go downtown, look up factory speaker sizes and get 4x6's up front, and 6 1/4 in the back (yes, i now know that is WRONG!!!) So i drop 200 on speakers, and a great head unit, and head back to do the radiator... After the arduous task of replacing the radiator (tranny cooler lines had stripped nuts on the radiator side, so those got replaced too) i crank it up, and decide to go ahead and fix the timing to see if that helps with my ongoing problem of the engine wanting to diesel after shutdown, so after a late night lesson in timing lights i get it all timed up and ready to run. And the starter is working great, radiator is great, and timing is decent. So off i go to do audio tomorrow.... I wake up eager to hook up my new sound system, and after an hour process of re-working the factory speaker mounts (clearence issues with my rockford fosgare punch 4x6 magnets hitting the plastic underneath) and adding spacers, i get the front speakers and head unit working. Then i pull off the sail panels.... great. Those are 6x9's. So, after finding some good 6x9's, i realize my socket is too fat to fit past the speaker itself to get to the bolt... Oh, and my weatherstripping around the hatch is leaking... nothing a little black silicone and my custom shaping tool (index finger) cant fix. Thought i'd share, still though, to be in for about $1600 all in all, and have a good running STRONG camaro, im exstatic. But, it still needs a tranny, accepting donations :-)

Not really a horror story but an interesting introduction into thirdgen ownership nonetheless.

Went to see a '90 GTA in glasgow with a friend. Quite spontaneous (flew up on a friday evening from london). Checked it all over, done the deal and we were on our way - setting off around 8pm. Was pretty cool, like a mini road trip compared to you guys (circa 700 miles back to central). Usual philosophical talk about life, girlfriends etc > A few stops, petrol station compilation cd's. By about 4am we were really dosing off but were in coventry (about 100 miles to go) so could see the light. Then suddenly the car gets much louder. Pull up at a petrol station and find the exhaust hanging down. It's pouring rain now and we're both still in our suits from work with no tools and more importantly no mechanical abilities!

Manage to fudge it with some rope and take it easy (50-60mph) majorly anxious. Took us around 3hrs to do those last 100 miles and we were absolutely dead!

Had family and friends all eager to check it out the next day, ready with their jibes about buying an american car >> wasn't good!

Since getting the exhaust fixed she's only needed a replacement battery but other than that been trouble free motoring (I only use it for social use but still do circa 100 miles a week). Going through a light restoration and going to treat her to some SFC's and performance brakes soon.

do you have any pictures of the evidence of the two cars being welded together? I would like to see that lol.

Mine is not so much of a horror story as it is a small scare.

I bought mine back in July for a great price knowing that it was not running.

So the first thing i did when we towed it home was replaced the starter. After a few key turns and a fully charged battery it started right up and sounded strong. It drove fine with decent shifts.

Then after about a week of driving it, it didnt want to shift out of 1st untill redline, and the same with second. Se me and my dad checked the trans fluid and filled that up...no change. So we started to get worried that the transmission might be going out and i would have to drop money of which i didnt have on it. My dad read into it a little bit and decided to adjust the throttle detent cable, which took about 20 seconds, and that fixed the whole problem. We were really relieved at that.

since then it tends to overheat everyonce in a while, but im slowly fixing that as well :/

sorry bout the long post

Cigarette lighter short caught dash on fire, car began smokin while I was in paying for the gas...at the gas pump!

I got one. Back in 2003 we were looking for a car for my son while he was still in high school. He played football and baseball which made it pretty hard for him to earn much money. He finally had saved enough to start looking at cars and we found a reasonably clean 86 Z-28 for sale locally that was close to his price range. My son instantly fell in love with the car (I think mainly because of the T-tops), it took a little longer to talk my wife and our insurance agent into it but; we finally make a deal and purchased this car.

Fast forward 2 ½ days, get a call from my son over the lunch hour that he was in a wreck. Some old-geezer turned left in front of him and the now the entire front-end of the Camaro looked like aluminum foil. Luckily my son was alright. Now the kicker, the old fart got hauled to the hospital and by the time the police went there to get his statement; he had decided this wasn’t his fault. In the meantime the two eye-witnesses that personally told me this accident was “the fossil’s” fault had disappeared into the woodwork never to be found. With only liability coverage on the car we were kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place (and if you can’t tell, yes: I am still bitter about this one).

Anyways, long story short (kind of); nobody likes to see their kids get screwed over so my wife and I agreed we would rebuild the car ourselves. Everything took twice as long and cost twice as much as I estimated, I gotta say I would have been MUCH better off to have parted this car out and bought him another one out of my own pocket. I got this done in time for him to drive it to school his last day of high school. He took it to college for a couple of years until he decided this wasn’t the best car for college and that he wanted a SUV that I had been driving and was going to trade-in. I took his Camaro in trade as my “middle age crisis car” (I couldn’t afford either a Viper or a 20 year old blond with a nice pair of “bolt-on's”). I typically drive it a couple of times a month, mostly to the DQ with the wife in the summer. All the while I collect all the parts and pieces I want/need to make it the way I really want it (T-56, 9” rear-end, warmed over 350, etc). I can’t even begin to imagine all the money I have in the thing and it is still a long ways from done, hence my TGO sign-on (86 money pit).

Here's my version. I owned an 85 Iroc(L69 and 5 speed) but I coveted my friends 82 Cross Fire Z28. So, I went looking and found one. Buddys car was Claret, with grey interior, the 82 I found was grey(silver?) exterior with claret interior, and Conteur drivers seat. It was five hours away, so after many telephone conversations, off I went with cash, and hope. Buddys car died within sight of my new car, I completed the transaction, now to fix his car...Turned out nothing would revive his Cross Fire, so out came the AAA card, and a tilt bed was summoned to transport his car home, and off we go in my new car...Made a hundred miles, stopped to eat, my car wouldn't start either. Crestfallen. The short of this story is that after too much troubleshooting, my car was back on the road after detail stripping my interior to remove the kill switch wired into the cigarette lighter. Anyone remember the ten pin-keyed alarm system once prominent on vehicle fenders? My 82 had it, and that kill switch incorporated into the lighter. With the lighter pushed in the car was supposed to run, with it out it wouldn't...Got home safe, found out my buddys car had a tank full of water from the last fuel stop. Exactly right, we tanked right before we arrived on sight where my car was, and we filled up on water...Gas station eventually paid all bills related to my buddys car, and it ran for many years thereafter, my 82 ran great when it would start the whole time I owned it, and was more fun to drive than my IROC, or the Starion I also owned, but that's another story. I sure miss that Cross Fire car. I have my eye on another 82. This time its claret inside and out, original owner that ordered it that way, with the carbed 305, and a four speed. it's three miles from my house. I wonder what will happen if I go try to make it home?

I bought a '82 Pace car in 1993 for $1500, it was pretty beat up, but it was a solid OK car. The original th200c bought the farm 2 weeks after I bought it, so I put a TH350 with a pretty hard shift kit in it, we had to rig the torque arm mount to it, but we got it in there, it shifted nice and firm, but blew the rear end to pieces on a 1-2 shift, in the mean time, I went through 3 starters, we couldn't shim it correctly and it kept cracking nose cones off the starter, luckily I worked for NAPA so I could warranty them. after the trans problem, I left it stored for 2 years and put a axle from a '82 V-6 sport coupe and I rebuilt the OE TH200 and put it back in. I found a wrecked '83 Z28 with 4- wheel discs I was going to use as a donor for the pace car, then My '87 Convertible came along. so I sold The pace car to get the convertible. I also bought 2 new third gens.. kind of a bad story.. in the summer of '89 I left my brand new '89 RS in front of my house for a week while I was on Vacation.. under a tree.. It proceeded to ruin the paint by tree sap etching spots all over the car.. GM repainted the car under warranty. The dealerships body shop did such a lousy job on the car with runs and tape marks inside the door jams, I traded the car off on a new '91 RS....

That was very well said, Our cars are a labor of love! I don't have any bad story's and don't want one. My 86 Iroc ran great when i bought it, and the same when i sold it. The horror story was I sold it ;0> My 89 has been a pretty smooth restore. Tearing the interior out soon. Lining the whole inside with insulation and doing a real clean finish to the inside. I would have to say we are a special bunch. haha
I mean i sold to very comfortable, reliable cars, clean as a pin after buying my 89 RS. I just love these cars.

My car had a penchant for eating up brakes. For the first few years, it seemed like every summer it was in for new brakes, because it seemed to keep eating calipers, and when it eats a caliper, it eats the pad and warps the rotor. One time the passenger caliper locked up and by the time I could get off the road, the caliper/rotor were glowing red and smoking, had to sit there for about 3 hours letting it cool before I could limp home. Of course it warped the rotor and ruined the pad, and of course calipers are usually sold in pairs. Brakes were a big expenditure several times, because it was the whole nine yards--calipers/rotors/pads/bleeding/miscellaneous. To this day I'm leery of four wheel disc brakes because of how much more expensive they are to service compared to drums.

MMy car has been a bad nightmare for me as well... get ready for another long story!

Ever since I've been interested in cars and getting one to fix up to start driving I've wanted a thirdgen. It was the looks that did it for me anyways I didn't know much on these cars and found a 86sc on ebay in my 2000$ price range. I wanted a iroc because I wanted that amazing v8 sound and power o so thought it had. Anyways drive about 2 and a half hours to see it and I fell in love. We ended up buying the car and make it home just fine. No real nightmares as I didn't drive the car but one or twice since I just got my learners permit. Anyways I realize its not the kind of "power" I expected so after we respray the front bumper we end up selling it for a tad more than I bought it for. So then im on the look for a legendary iroc! anyways I find a 88 350tpi iroc which is what I desired. However it had some fenderwell rust but being young and stupid I didn't care so I decided to buy it. Didn't even drive that for more then a week before we found another 87 iroc a guy wouldn't sell as he wanted to fix it. He ended up not getting the title and sold it dirt cheap. Got that for 500$ and I got the 88 for 1200. The 87 had no rust and decent body. Both cars needed paint anyways and we were going to swap drivetrains so minus well paint it all and cut the pieces in? Anyways many months later me and my dad got it all painted and everything hooked up (no interior however though as both had junk interiors except for carpet, seats and dash and counsel. Drove the car like that for about 7 months (never got the interior done) before I then decided I wanted more power. Also within that time I had two busted hoses that had dryrotted and went through two transmissions before having one fully rebuilt . So last spring I started searching around before finding a wrecked 99 z28 for 1400$ and I ended up buying that. So I first brought the 88 iroc in early spring 2010 when i was 15 and now I i am 17 and it has undergone a full restore from paint to engine and trans and almost interior to now a drivetrain and fourth gen interior with ls1 and t56! And after all the money I dumped into this and time, sweat, blood and tears I would not give my baby away for the world!

I bought my car, $1500, sight unseen on the internets over TGO. Car was in Virginia, I am in Georgia.

I said "I'll buy the car at that price if you're willing to meet halfway with it". Figured if the owner was willing to drive 4 hours to meet me in the car it must be at least somewhat reliable.

Turns out I got into it and it drove perfectly all the way home. No problems at all. Next week the passenger side brake caliper seized up against my rotors and I had to replace the whole front brake system. That's still just wear and tear maintenance though.

The car was really good to me in stock trim before I tore everything out and put my hot rod crap in it. Just wanted to point out that not every drive 5 hours to get a car you havent seen before story ends badly.

That was, however, one of the coldest nights of the year, and the car had no heat. I couldn't feel anything below my knees by the time I made it back across the Georgia border.

uhh the opposite of a horror story?

bought my 84 z about 200 miles away form home and drove it all the way back in the pouring rain (ttops didn't leak then, but they do now 0_o) and managed to talk my way out of 9 tickets alls i can say is apparently everyone enjoys a nice camaro

Here is my son's Third gen horror story:

Junior turns 16 in August 2010. Two weeks later he buys his first car, a 1988 GTA, T roof, 5 speed. The digital odometer reads 69k miles. Needs lots of minor work due to it's age, but nothing unexpected. Most importantly - although it's a Canadian car, it's never seen a winter so it's completely rust free:



He gets his beginners permit and learns how to drive standard with his dad riding shotgun. lt's all good.

Finally, in June 2011, the moment that every boy waits for finally arrives. He passes his final driving test, and now he's free to roam the town in his hot rod. One week later, the fun goes on hold:



Knocking bottom end put a damper on the kid's enthusiasm and his bank account.

My story begins with me deciding to get me a new 3rd gen because I want to restore my low production '97 WS6 6 speed Trans Am Convertible.

I was at work and a friend of mine showed me a link to a '92 T/A right down the road from me. The kid wanted $1300 OBO, so I went out and took a look at it. She had 101XXX on the clock, dark blue with 4th gen birds on the sail panels, 86-90 tail lights, the nose from a 86-90 T/A, no Aero spoiler, and the passenger door without the Aero gfx holes. No biggy right? So I haggle after taking her for a spin, (305 TPI= gutless but still ran decent) I talked the kid down to $900. I picked the car up 4 days later, I noticed that the front bumper was barely on (held on by the top bolts), and quite warm. When I was pulling in some cops had pulled over a kid on a 4-wheeler, I found out that the kid had the original tail lights and Aero spoiler sitting in his garage! He wanted me to pay an arm and a leg for them! So I passed on that but took the car. I didn't even get 1 mile and I saw lights in the rear view- GREAT! No plates just a title that didn't have the seller's name on it because he didn't get the car registered (Yeah I know-Stupid on my part). Well it turns out that the kid and his friends decided to take 1 last 'Joy Ride' and god know where, but his neighbors called the cops and informed me of this and wanted to make sure that I had nothing to do with it and get the car home.

The next day I took it for a spin to get an idea what was wrong with it and I hit a pot hole and BAM! Engine cut off, no power to anything. I was about 5 miles from home, and played around with the wiring to no avail. I also found that the engine was idling high, and the passenger door practically fell off when opened. Unfortunately the weather wasn't going to agree with me for the next few weeks (I don't have a garage) and she sat with windows stuck down and the rain......

Fast forward a couple months, I ended up hitting the salvage yards and a couple people on the forums for parts. I swapped the entire front end and doors out with the correct parts. I was driving my '97 for 1 more week before I was going to tackle the wiring issues, I came out of work on a Saturday afternoon to find that the fuel pump went out. So priority for the '92 shot up to #1. I bought a new battery and it took my friend and I 4 hours to track down all the wiring issues under the hood and a few of the vacuum issues. I found the ground strap on the back passenger head had burned open and they had granny tied it, and they had wires going to places they should've not been, vacuum lines melted, and the secondary fan does not come on.

I am driving her daily now and just got new tires installed, just need to replace the muffler that is hanging and all mangled. I will tell about that later......

My cars been needing an alignment for a while and just the other day it got real bad all the sudden and i took it in before going on the freeway. Apparently the idler arm had been working itself loose, and almost came off

In September 1982 I bought my first 3rd gen. It was a brand new 1983 Trans AM WS7. It was white, T-tops, and a Cross-Fire. It had the Bose sound system, and the 15 inch turbo mag wheels with the Goodyear Eagle tires. The RPO sheet was full of options. For 83 it was the bomb. I had owned the car for 10 days, and was enjoying the h*** out of it. Driving to work one morning there are three bridges crossing a river, and the area is prone to flooding. I stopped, and started to do a U turn to go an alternate route. A deputy was waving people accross the bridge. He said that the water was only a few inches deep, and that it would be no problem to cross. Like an idiot, I started across the bridge. The water was rising fast, and the rear of the car floated enough to loose traction. I tried locking the brakes, hoping that the front would hold the car in place, however the water swept the car off of the road, and down the river. As soon as the car was floating completely the weight of the engine held the front down and the water was at the center of the windshield. My first thought was crap, my new car is ruined, and then it dawned on me that if I did not get out quickly, I was going to the bottom with the car. The water was 45 feet deep. I popped the driver's t-top, jumped out, and swam with the current to the bank. The water was moving fast and had all sorts of stuff floating in it, so by the time I got to the bank the car was gone, and I was scratched, bruised, and bleeding. The water receded in a few days, and I went to the river to see how badly damaged the car was. It was not pretty. The TA was upside down in the mud, partially on a large rock. the glass was all gone, and the top was crushed to the fenders. The car looked like it had rolled down the river bed for a 100 feet or so. My insurance paid me full price for the car but it took them 6 weeks to do it. The insurance co sued the county for reimbursement, and the county settled out of court. For a few weeks I borrowed my mom's 73 Chrysler, because I did not have another car, and the the wife needed her car to get to work. It sucked haivng to drive that green beast. By the end of December I had my money. On New Years Day 1983, I bought a new 1983 WS6 in silver with t-tops. That car had a 305 four barrel, a stick, and loaded similiar to the first one. That car was the worst lemmon I have ever owned. The primary problem was that in 83 Pontiac had a mix-up at the assembly plant. The workers were installing radiators randomly. There ended up being a big recall. If one had an Iron Duke or a V-6 with a V-8 radiator, you were in good shape. My car had a V-6 radiator. I complained about the car overheating, and the dealer installed a resistor in the circuit from the temp sender to the temp guage to make the guage read lower than the actual temp of the engine. The engine was running very hot, and failed at 3300 miles. The factory paid to install a new engine, and a V-8 radiator, but the dealer botched the job and the car never ran right. By this time I was hating Pontiac. Mid summer 83I traded that POS for a new 83 K-5 Blazer, which I drove until 2001.In the fall of 83, I was at a Pontiac dealer in the next town, and they had a beautiful new 83 base model Trans AM. It was white with t-tops, 305, auto and had the 14 inch Turbo Mag wheels. I bought the car, and the wife almost divoriced me. I kept that car until 2003, and never had any problems with it. The wife kept bugging me to sell the car, and I finally sold it, but have regretted that decision.

bought a 1992 camaro rs, I knew it needed some tlc, but it was cheap, that night the pulley from the water pump fell off and the water pump broke, could not find one from anywhere except ebay, got it, fixed it, then the brand new belt started rippin in half, due to the alignment from the smog pump, got a new belt and by pass the smog pump, tires look ok on the outside but one had a slipped belt inside, and the traction on the other wore perfectly in middle and was bad, replace all the tires, the car started leakin water, got s new hoses, and it still leaks about 2 ozs every now and then but not all the time, and the speedometer didnt work, and slowly leaks out transmission fluid out bout 2 oz a week through the sensor and I think it might be fixed, and got it aligment done same time I got tires, 2 days later got it inspected, and they said the ti rod was not good enough to pass, got it fixed, so Idk what else will pop yet, but I onle had the car for bout a month....

Well, I don't have a horror story. yet...