Another "Why would anyone do this?"

[Jnelson]

You got to love this. Some of you may have seen my other post of same name. This guy was picking parts from all over for this. Just wondering what I will find next.
By the way, I am looking for alternator brackets and power steering brackets.

 

[Jonnyuma]

Maybe the PO was Cuban. Have you ever seen what those cats will do to keep a car running...amazing and unbelievable. The only new vehicles in that little island paradise belong to the government and party insiders. The new parts business is practically nonexistent (embargo), so creativity and "repurposing" is the name of the game there....

...or maybe the guy was just a hack.

Ring up Bouchillon Performance Engineering for new pulleys and brackets.

 

[Snowtrooper1966]

At least it's an actual car part, just noticed this:

"spacer" on my alternator assembly yesterday.
Previous owner prolly wound up with a MoPar spacer in his Craftsman socket set...

 

[Hemi Rebel]

Maybe the PO was Cuban. Have you ever seen what those cats will do to keep a car running...amazing and unbelievable. The only new vehicles in that little island paradise belong to the government and party insiders. The new parts business is practically nonexistent (embargo), so creativity and "repurposing" is the name of the game there....

...or maybe the guy was just a hack.

Ring up Bouchillon Performance Engineering for new pulleys and brackets.

Yeah, Cubans must be pretty good. They can keep a 59 chevy running 500 thousand miles around a tiny island with parts out of God only knows what, vacuum cleaners and toasters.

 

[Chryco69]

Shocking it doesn't have a Chebby alternator on it. " I done used a Chebby alternator cuz its alot simpler than that crazy Mopar stuff"

 

[Photon440]

Yeah, Cubans must be pretty good. They can keep a 59 chevy running 500 thousand miles around a tiny island with parts out of God only knows what, vacuum cleaners and toasters.

I'll bet you that at least half of those old classics are running Russian 4 cyl. diesels in them by now...

 

[hotrod Al]

I watched a documentary about classic cars in Cuba and alot of those guys are pretty ingenious about fabricating their own parts.

 

[65 Plymouth Satellite 426]

More Shitboxes!

 

[WP29440SE]

Cuz , sometimes you gotta make due

makin' sumpin outa nuttin

ive seen worse

 

[shorty64]

back in the Mechanix Illustrated Days, the often was a partial page blurb on emergency measures for your car:
- rope or nylons for a fan belt.
- use a hairpin for a distr rotor contact, on a cardboard circle if your rotor was broken.
- hang a can on the antenna w/ some windshield washer tubing to the carb opening when fuel pump dies.
- take the jack handle, tie it to the driving wheel thru the handhold slots so the tire iron acted like a boat cleat.
tie the rope o a stationary item (hopefully nearby) and slowly run the drive wheels to wind up the rope on the "cleat" to get you out of the sand/mud/snow.
- a similar tip was to partially apply the parking brake to act as traction control so the driven wheel didn't spin so easily.

there were others about how to wrap something around a split/leaking rad hose like in the above photo, etc.

pretty interesting to a young teen just getting into his license and tooling around in the old clunkers.

 

[Moparsmitty]

At least it's an actual car part, just noticed this:

"spacer" on my alternator assembly yesterday.
Previous owner prolly wound up with a MoPar spacer in his Craftsman socket set...

At least that old Craftsman socket was probably made in the U.S. Previous owner wanted to keep it all American.

 

[RedHot67]

Lol...but at least it works!

This is what I found under one of my past cars, they used a tennis sock to "seal" the power steering :thinker: