Scariest cars for the season

[StClone]

Top 10 Scary Cars
By Tom and Ray Magliozzi, Car Talk



With Halloween coming, we asked Tom and Ray to give us their Top 10 scariest cars. They came through and were even kind enough to tell us for whom exactly the cars are scary. Read on, if you dare (imagine spooky laughter here)...
1969 Ford Mustang

Scary for: Bystanders and other drivers

Looks like an early Ford Mustang, right? It is, on the outside anyway. The inside, however, is all Ford Falcon, a pedestrian vehicle if ever there was one. So what, you say? Well, drop a Boss V-8 into a Ford Falcon and what do you get? An overpowered car that doesn't have the shocks, brakes or structural rigidity to turn or stop well. In other words ... look out!

...more at...


http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=top&story=topScary&subject=more

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Heh.

My dad used to have one of these:



The worst part about that? He traded in one of THESE to get it:

[StClone]

2. Z

My teen yen was for a Z or a Barracuda. I did get a Datsun (510) and loved it.

[Drum]

3. Neat link, thanks StClone!

:hi:
Very interesting...familiar with a few of these!

From the article:
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1971 Ford Pinto
Scary for: Firefighters and plastic surgeons

What could possibly be scarier than a car endorsed by both the Shriners' Burn Ward Fundraising Division and the League of Asbestos-Clothing Manufacturers? These cars had an unfortunate tendency to explode when hit from behind, since that's where the gas tank was located. Ford did eventually fix the problem, but the damage was done, so to speak. Being anywhere near a Pinto still gives us visions of Robert Duvall calling in airstrikes in "Apocalypse Now."
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Funny seeing this...a '71 Pinto was the first car I owned. Butterscotch-pudding color, and nothing but trouble for the year until it died. The gas-tank issue was well-known to me, and even at 17 yrs old it was sobering. :scared:

Still...(sigh) there's something about the first....

[StClone]

6. I nearly bought a new Ford Bobcat.

Not much better though as Nader didn't write a book about it "Unsafe at any speed" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed

:toast:

[mark414]

4. good list...i'm glad they included the hummer

[texas1928]

5. Yeah but that 69 Mustang is fun to drive.

We all have to die sometimes.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. 1980 Chevrolet Monza

Unfortunately, when sales slowed down, some geniuses at Chevy decided that what the Monza needed was a V-8, so they shoehorned one in there. The result? Half the spark plugs are almost impossible to reach; to get at them you need rappelling equipment and an air chisel.

:rofl:

Funniest. car. rip. EVarrr. :thumbsup: