The worst car I’ve ever owned is undoubtedly one of the ones I miss the most: a 1986 GMC C10 with a 5.7-liter V8 I’ve written about in the past. Today, we’re asking you to share your stories, too.

I bought the truck about an hour and a half away from where I lived and after paying just $600 for it, wouldn’t you know it, the truck was unable to make the trip all the way home. After getting a new fuel pump into it, it started running alright and I was excited to do my first dump run in the truck. I even asked friends around town if they needed anything driven to the dump so that I could have a bigger load.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t on the way to the dump, with a bed full of trash that the truck struggled to do; it was the trip home. As I pulled out of the facility and onto a gravel road it started crabbing, and then the rear started trying to overtake the front, albeit extremely slowly. The front driver’s side caliper had seized and I had to pry it off and drive home with an escort in order to use my brakes as little as possible.

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What the truck was supposed to look like

I’ll concede that all available evidence would suggest that truck was never in very good condition, but even after I’d fixed it up and gotten some new tires, the front brakes locked whenever it rained even a few drops. The cabin was so bare it didn’t even have a clock, and even though it had a 5.7-liter small-block Chevy, it made such little power that it could only barely do the one-wheeler peelers that I so desperately desired.

The truck left me with an overriding respect for anyone who lived in the era of classic vehicles and survived. On the other hand, literally everybody who saw it loved it, when it was running it was enormously charming, and even when it wasn’t it looked pretty cool. Plus I could just sit in the engine bay when I needed to work on anything, and there was no fear of being cold in the winter because the cabin was so poorly insulated that the engine’s heat soaked right through.

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