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Oct 23, 2022 18:07:41 GMT
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Not sure if this counts but back in the early nineties when I was a nipper we were out in the middle of nowhere "parked" with my then girlfriend when the sudden urge for a smoke came over me. I had cigarettes but no lighter so I stripped an old earth strap down to a single strand of copper and made a circuit until it glowed hot enough to light up
Needless to say she was so impressed her clothes fell off.
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Oct 23, 2022 19:25:07 GMT
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Had a car in at work on Friday that had the workshop type oil soak up pads cabled tied to the subframe to soak up power steering fluid!
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dikkehemaworst
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Club RR Member Number: 16
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Nov 29, 2022 20:42:27 GMT
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You said cable ties??
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Nov 29, 2022 20:57:37 GMT
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Think there is also some mecano mixed in
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Think there is also some mecano mixed in Amazing structural strength, Meccano. Ask James may....😄
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Not exactly the worst bodges ever seen, but more amusing to find this blocking off a vacuum pipe... Am very curious that during the course of swapping a carb & inlet the most appropriate thing to hand is a golf tee? In general wiring seems to be flushing out evermore sketchy work although I have found a second set of redundant fuel lines on the big Chrysler😬
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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Apr 12, 2024 12:48:59 GMT
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Doesn't every chap have golf tees in the car? After all, their primary purpose is to put your balls on before driving!
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fogey
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Apr 12, 2024 13:11:31 GMT
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I recently found this aluminium plate riveted over the sill of my fiat I expected the welding to get worse but I never expected it would just stop Smoothed over with liberal amounts of filler and some dry fibre glass matting. This is exactly why I would think very carefully before buying a retro that's just been resprayed . . .
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Apr 12, 2024 16:18:16 GMT
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that 914 in the for sale section now all over you tube with inch thick filler
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fogey
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Apr 12, 2024 18:43:51 GMT
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that 914 in the for sale section now all over you tube with inch thick filler Oh Boy!!!!
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Apr 12, 2024 20:06:57 GMT
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that 914 in the for sale section now all over you tube with inch thick filler Oh Boy!!!! Its a shame because the bodywork and paint looked quite good before it was stripped, why would someone go to all that trouble to use all that filler and paint it when what was underneath wasn't good?
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Apr 12, 2024 21:18:55 GMT
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I remember watching my dad bodge the sills of his Mk3 Cortina with chicken wire and filler, then sprayed over with vaguely the right color of paint before trading it in on a Mk4 Cortina, sometime in the early ‘80’s.
My first car was a very rusty mk1 Polo. It sorta looked okay, but in youthful exuberance out of the back roads around Boreham late one night I hit a rabbit. Didn’t think anything of it at the time, but next morning not only was there rabbit pieces stuck to the front, there was also a rabbit-sized hole in the valance. Closer inspection revealed chicken wire and a skim of filler, painted over with under seal. The whole valance would move as you pushed it. Later on, I found the passenger footwell filling with water. Or rather, an attractive young lady I had a crush on found the water, when I gave her a ride home and when we crested a hill and came to a stop cold water sloshed forward soaking her feet and legs. So much for romance. Lifted the rubber floor mat and there was a large hole right behind the wheel. Filled it with bondo and carried on, but come MOT time it was so rusty it went to the scrappy and I got a mk1 Fiesta. That wasn’t a bad car, but lots of electrical gremlins that took time to fix, then when I pulled out the tail lights to put mk2 Fiesta units in, I discovered both rear side panels were dented in and full of bondo. That one got painted in coach builders enamel with rollers and a brush after mis-use of a jet wash peeled paint off the door. It looked okay from 20 feet away. On a dark and stormy night. That car went to the great parking lot in the sky when it got rear ended in traffic and all the filler on one side came off and the other guys insurance cut me a check for almost what I paid for it.
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Apr 15, 2024 11:29:02 GMT
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A friend had an Alfa 75 with really rusty floor parts and sills. The problem was that he couldn't weld and knew nobody who could help him. He covered the holes up with some layers of masking tape and then sprayed the entire floor of the car thick in underseal. Looked great.😅
The MOT guy complimented him on the state of the body..🤔
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