Click & Clack -- The Tappet Brothers -- had a good line on this topic:
Quote:
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"You know you drive a jalopy when you have to give special operating instructions to someone who wants to borrow your car."
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And they gave some examples like: how you have to jiggle the shifter or the key a certain way to make it go in gear; or how a certain door only opens from the inside; or the heater fan only works on the highest speed setting, etc.
Here's mine:
With my
winter beater 2000 Metro having some intermittent stalling-at-idle problems recently, I bypassed the clutch safety switch so that I had the
option of moving the car a short distance using the starter motor in the event it stalled in traffic.
That's confirmation (one of many) that I drive a junker!