Click the image above to view photos of some of the world's messiest cars
At one point or another, most of us have a messy car. It might be because your schedule is crammed, you were just on a road trip, or maybe you just got lazy for a while. Eventually, you take 5-10 minutes to straighten out the slop so the interior of your ride isn't a health hazard.
Unfortunately, some people apparently like living in filth, so they drive around in what my mother would call a 'pig sty.' You may recall a story here on Autoblog about a woman's car that was so messy, debris got under her brake when she was driving and it led to an accident. Well, it turns out this woman is far from alone in the world of freakishly disgusting automotive hygiene. Call us crazy, but we're guessing these folks aren't dating anybody right now. Actually, we should all check to see if we know the person who owns the vehicle pictured above. Judging by the new baking pan in the back seat, there's a good chance that this person is planning on preparing food for more than one.
The attached gallery is home to a collection of rolling trash cans filled with mountains of waste that not only obstruct the view of the driver, they probably smell worse than a landfill. The photos come courtesy of our friends over at Gadling, and we suggest that you don't eat lunch while you're checking 'em out..
[Source: Gadling]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Snark @ May 26th 2007 11:29AM
In all fairness, one has to remember that this sort of filthiness isn't the product of an entirely whole, rational mind; it's usually the case that a car that crammed with stuff is owned by somebody with pack-rat syndrome or some other form of mental illness. I mean, I know some people who keep messy cars, but most people get fed up and haul the crap out at least once in a while. It's the same thing that leads people to keep, say, every copy of the local paper for the last 38 years, or 79 cats, or whatever - sort of an OCD thing.
Jaymez @ May 26th 2007 12:36PM
I work with a guy who keeps gatorade bottles full of piss in his van. He says he always has to piss when he leaves a customer's house and he doesn't want to go back inside.
One advantage to driving a regualr cab truck is I don't have any room to leave crap in there. The most you'll find in my cab is a notebook and possibly a jacket. Anything else that I might want to keep in the truck goes into the toolbox on the back.
When I had a car with a backseat, I would toss my Dunkin Donuts bags back there and clean it out every other week. I've found I prefer not having a backseat.
PeakVT @ May 26th 2007 1:06PM
I lived in an apartment next to a guy who was a pack rat, and his car was a total mess, too. He kept asking me if I wanted to "borrow" stacks of old magazines he found in the trash.
He also had a Geo Metro sedan for about a week, and then took it back because a friend convinced him it had a "throwaway" engine, unlike other cars. His replacment - a Toyota Corolla - was probably a little more durable.
Don @ May 28th 2007 5:29PM
I once appraised a house with newspapers piled from floor to ceiling covering every inch of the house.
I'd say it's a mental illness.
Pixel @ May 29th 2007 10:33AM
The most disgusting car I've ever heard of was one I was fortunate to never actually see. A friend of mine worked as a Ford mechanic back in the '70/'80s. They had one customer they dreaded. His LTD was *horrifying*. The back seat was full of empty beer cans (this was before open container laws), the dregs of beer in them combined with the Texas heat made for a terrible smell.
But that wasn't the worst, the worst was that he used dip tobacco and spit the tobacco juice at the dashboard. When the car came in for repairs my friend had to scrub old tobacco juice off the instrument cluster to see the idiot lights.