You Know You Drive A Junker When...

[Food Lady]

..you are driving and a rusted piece of something falls off the back.

Let's keep this thread going. Junker drivers unite!

[Ironclad Alibi]

..when the wipers are manually operated, as in reach out around the windshield to move them with your hand.

[dalesys]

You pour gasoline in the carburetor bowl every block or two to get home. (plugged fuel filter)

[notalwaysright]

When you scrape both the inside and outside of your windshield.

[Deserted]

When you have the vehicle in the shop every day for a week for the same problem. (Bad a/c here. Current guess is bad compressor. Nothing like no a/c in 105+-degree heat.)

[mjr]

When your quarter panels are different colors than the rest of the car.

When your car has no front/rear bumper.

When you have a "window" that is plastic and duct tape. Same for a brake light.

[drunkenwildmage]

When your horn consists of you rolling down the window and yelling 'Beep!!'

When the one of the local demolition derby\bomber drivers tells you to call them when you are thinking about getting rid of the car.

When reverse is opening up the drivers door, and pushing the car backwards with your foot.

[dalesys]

..you are driving and a rusted piece of something falls off the back...

... and it's the gas tank ... (Yep. A '61 Fairlane 2-speed automatic in a blizzard)

[greek_jester]

When your handbrake is leaving the car in gear to avoid rolling up/down the hill.

Or: when your handbrake is leaving a couple of breeze blocks behind the wheels.

[KuariKaydrith]

When using a bungee cord to hold your hood/bonnet down.

Ditto for your trunk.

[Javarod]

Ummm, when it breaks in half... Yes, that really happened to me.

[Aria]

When you scrape both the inside and outside of your windshield.

I... I have to do that with my brand new Nissan Micra...

[dalesys]

When you can watch the road flying by under your feet. (The Corvair my mother borrowed from a member of our bishopric, Brother Pope (Arnold).)

[Food Lady]

All of this makes me grateful for my own car!

[protege]

When you can watch the road flying by under your feet.

Dad's '79 Volvo sedan was like that. He Filled the hole with spray-on expandable foam. Same car, more "you know you drive a shitbox when..."

...your exhaust is made of coffee cans and coat hangers.
...you cannot open the driver's door from the inside.
...the primary color of the car is "Bondo."
...you have to use a bungee cord to hold the trunk lid down.
...it can wither a rainforest at 50 paces.

Then there was the '88 Taurus that came later, also a junker...

...the primary color of the car is "rust."
...the headlight is held in with tape.
...the car tends to "hop" over bumps, because the rear springs are broken.
...the car smells like a refinery, due to the entire top of the gas tank being gone.
...you have to use a flashlight to see the gauges at night.