I once got my brother's lemon. It was a '65 Pontiac Catalina convertible, and my brother had had loads of trouble with it until while it still had it's 2 year warranty, and then they refused to keep "fixing" it. So when he went to Viet Nam, he gave it to me.
I'll tell you more about the problems maybe later, but I resolved never to buy another Pontiac Catalina. Then when I needed another car after mine was totaled, I was only able to look at 3 cars in the time I had and the best was a Pontiac Catalina.
So I bought it. It was 2 years newer and the first 7 digits of the car's serial number were the same as the prior car.
But I never had any trouble with it. Everything worked fine, and I had it for more than 100,000 miles. I've probably forgotten some small normal problems, but none of the things that were wrong with the first car.
Mine wasn't assembled right.
It was in the transition years with AC and fresh air vents at the kick pads. No air came out of the vents. Took off the covers and the cables weren't connected to the air doors. Just hook them on and they were fine.
The steering wheel was designed so it looked better upside down**, but then it was actually mounted upside down. So the turn signals would turn off with a 90 degree return to straight, instead of the normal
270 degrees. I could have rotated the wheel half way, but I liked how it looked so I drilled a matching hole in it half way around, and kept it upside down, but looking better than right side up.**For one thing, the built in plastic grips on the wheel where at 10 and 2. If mounted as designed, they would have been at 8 and 4. Who holds the wheel like that?
More problems with the car later.