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Jul 25, 2011 10:51:11 GMT
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Have just bought a new car a modern coal burner so i wont bore you with the details but two days into ownership and a torrential night of rain i noticed damp carpet in the boot and on further inspection found the spare wheel well half full of water. Nothing serious, seal had gone around the rear light cluster but rather than replace the seal which required 3 bolts to be undone and a couple of quid to buy the previous owner had just wrapped the rear electrics in cling film?  ? Back on the retro track it got me to thinking I bet some of you guys must have come accross some amazing bodged jobs on your collective retros. |
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bortaf
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Jul 25, 2011 11:31:03 GMT
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found or done  concrete sills to newspaper roofs, rear lights from coke bottles coloured in with feltip pens ;D how many do you want  I do allways like to have a read of the newspapers i get out of sills, just a little "thing" i have after i found a copy of a paper above me grandads kitchen door describing the sinking of the titanic ;D best i have is a copy of the new york times with the kennedy assassination on the front page found in a cortina, it was wrapped in a plastic bag an used to form a sunroof pannel, it was a work of art really, must of taken bloody ages, had all the brackets ect fibreglassed on, what got me was the paper must have been 20 years old at least when they used it !  |
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VIP
South East
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Jul 25, 2011 11:31:13 GMT
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We had a thread on this recently, but I'm damned if I can find it!
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crazymonkey
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ummm....what was I doing again???
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Jul 25, 2011 12:16:11 GMT
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don't have anything exciting like that but I will say one thing that relates to this thread "cable ties are your friend" |
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whoever said dogs were man's best friend....obviously never heard of cable ties
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Granadaman72
Part of things
I likes Granada's, Cortina's, Sierra's, Viva's, Marina's....................
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Jul 25, 2011 12:53:29 GMT
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Once broke a mk2 Granada with what looked like extremely neatly welded repair panels on the front inner wings/a post, turned out they were just stuck on with silicone or no nails!!  |
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djefk
Part of things
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Jul 25, 2011 13:23:29 GMT
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As per my BMW's thread the guys restoring it pulled a piece of road sign out of it masquerading (courtesy of filler and silicone) as part of the inner sill.
Guess what the sign said?
Men at work :-)
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Jul 25, 2011 14:34:44 GMT
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the entire bodyshell on my scimitar.... any repairs that were carried out on the crushed shell, had either been made with bodyfiller (including a 1" section of the A-pillar...) or a singular layer of fibreglass, with no body prep. I've just pulled off entire sections Now being scrapped, and replaced with a chopped down Rascal body - steel is SO much cheaper to work with! |
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You're like a crazy backyard genius! |
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Bodge FixDeleted
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Jul 25, 2011 17:24:07 GMT
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my mk5 cortina 2.3 gl i had earlier this year looked really nice on first glance at it but once i got a closer look at it had had an array of bad and somewhat dangerous bodges sills were a mixture of plastic bags and filler the exhaust was just a mess done by a supposed professional exhaust company and the car had had a total bodge of a paint job which involved stone chipping at least half of the car to cover up the grot . took me ages to sort all the bits out and get it to being the very nice car could so easily have been to begin with had people who have obviously no clue about cars never had a hand in it .
there are the little bodges that get a car home they are fine so long as they are going to be done properly at a later date . and then there are the bodges that are done to cover up stuff to deceive people they are the ones that really annoy me
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Bodge Fixretrowagen1234
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Jul 25, 2011 17:27:09 GMT
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Fb victor estate that had more expanding foam in it than an expanding foam factory...
72 hightop baywindow with cardboard sills...
and one cab step that looked like it had been made from a disposable bbq
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Jul 25, 2011 17:35:29 GMT
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I know a guy who once repaired a 6 inch hole in a single skin body panel with a peice of cardboard taped to the back and filler on the front!
Thunk he had a day off from catching Indians...
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Remember the days when sex was safe and motorsport was dangerous. Vintage bling always attracts pussy.  |
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Davenger
Club Retro Rides Member
It's only metal
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Bodge FixDavenger
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Club Retro Rides Member 140
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Jul 25, 2011 18:44:03 GMT
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The rear arches on my Avenger were made from newspaper  |
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Jul 25, 2011 18:50:44 GMT
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Me and my brother went to buy an E30 off here. Seen it (in the rain) and had a half arsed look round it. Paid and drove it back.  The sills and inner wheel arches made of expanding foam and covered in underseal. |
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THE_Liam
Yorkshire and The Humber
If at first you don't succeed... HAMMERS.
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Jul 25, 2011 19:16:22 GMT
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I once went to look at a 306 for a mate, the gearbox mount had snapped and the gearbox was held on by a jubilee clip wrapped round the snapped mount  |
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Jul 25, 2011 20:27:35 GMT
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After getting my hillman through the MOT i hit a rather large pot hole taking my girlfriend home, which resulted in most of the passenger side fire wall fall away as it was all just fibre glass and news paper (but expertly blended into the body. It was even covered in under seal) I can still remember the look on her face when she turned to me and said " James... I can see the road" |
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Too many projects, not enough time.
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Jul 25, 2011 20:44:59 GMT
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The paint on my Cortina is a pretty good bodge. Applied by the previous, previous owner, the paint its painted on top of seems to have had zero prep, as you can pick the top coat off, and where they've masked the windows, they've 'overmasked' leaving a ring of the old paint visible round all the window rubbers!I've not done anything about it yet,as its a good reminder to try and do a good job at things! |
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i have seen a block of wood as an engine mount, and wedges of wood put in between the coils on the rear of a car.
My old $200 Torana had sills made out of expanding foam, I then painted it in waterbased house paint and before i had quite finished it started to rain, decided to drive the car to dry it off and ended up with speed runs the length of the car, it was a beast!
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1967/8 Isuzu Bellett
1969 Isuzu Florian Deluxe
Never buy a car you cant push...
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Lawsy
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ah the days before affordable welders and internet groups to help teach people
old motoring mags showed ways of repairing with chicken wire, newspaper, filler etc etc
I'm sure most of our grandparents have done something liek this.. I dread to think what lurks under in the cav, but it does appear solid
whilst on modern day botches, I've had to do one, more of quick thinking tho..
My modern has some weird unusual bulbs int he fron indicators and since swapping to clear lenses they have flashed a white/smoked colour - not orange..
Anyway, I'd searched and searched and couldnt find any silver/amber bulbs that are the right fitment, i then gave up and i forgot about it and the night before the MOT i suddenly remembered, quick pop to halfrauds and other places, no-ones sells amber paint anymore - was just about to give up when I saw a sainsbury's carrier bag, i popped out the indicator, made a cover from the carier bag, popped it into the indicator, then pushed the bulb in, twisted into place holds the bag in situ
hey presto, indicators flash orange and sailed though the mot..
Bodge = yes
works = yes
do i care = its the modern daily - no
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Current bodges..... cable ties holding the centre exhaust pipe up on the panda. gorilla tape covering the holes on the Holden ;D Oh, and i will just leave pics of the camper here ....   |
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1993 Fiat Panda Selecta
2003 Vauxhall Combo 1.7DI van
2006 Mercedes Kompressor Evolution-S AMG SportCoupé
"You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it"
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