Dumb stuff you've seen with cars....

[sicksatellite]

A buddy of mine installed "double sided brake pads" once. friction material on the outside, backing on the inside...killed the rotors. hahaha

 

[64BEL]

A buddy of mine installed "double sided brake pads" once. friction material on the outside, backing on the inside...killed the rotors. hahaha

ROTFLMAO!ops::laughing7:

 

[500dodge]

when i bought my drag car it had the same thing!!!the guy said it pulled to thje left maybe a caliper was sticking...LOL good thing i went over the car before I raced it!!!

 

[D Dodge]

Years ago I worked at a cemetery where they had a Dodge truck with a Chevy bed.

 

[Rippin]

Worst I've seen was the "handy work" the former owner of my 68 GTX had performed on the clutch assembly. Apparently, he did not have or lost the three of the correct bolts that secure the pressure plate/clutch to the flywheel so he just inserted some garden variety "long" bolts with nuts. It was evident, that on the very first rotation, these too long bolts hit the Bellhousing and bent. Not to mention how dangerous this half *** combo was for a heavy-footed hot rodder. He also had used chicken wire to secure the clutch pedal to Z Bar brace...Yikes...still not sure how that ever stayed secure???



BTW Cranky, my father's brand new 76 Aspen SE had Volare' on one side and Aspen on the other. He was "hot" about it, the most he had ever spent for a new car and not too happy about the "error". Until now, I thought it was pretty unique.

 

[Meep-Meep]

Back in the 80's a buddy put the battery in the trunk in his 69 RR and zip tied the pos cable to the rear brake line. Yep, eventually the insulation went and all the electrons went to ground through the brake line and melted a portion of it away. And as a happy ending to that story I now own that 69 RR!

I had a hitch installed on my 66 F250 by a local shop (it was convenient to have someone else do it at the time) and later I noticed one of the hot wires for the lights was zip tied to the fuel line all the way down!! I solved that issue before something bad happened.

Another buddy took the steering wheel off his Dart for turn signal switch repairs or something then got the idea of driving around with vice grips on the shaft.

 

[Al K]

"Dumb stuff you've seen with cars..."

Their owners. 'Nuff said.

 

[BuiltPoly318]

My father in law had an Aspen with both badges on it...Volare on one side and Aspen on the other.

Seeing this reminded me of something. I had bought a used '70 Coronet 500 when I was 20 (my first Mopar). If you're familiar with them, there's a full-width panel on the back end with the "D O D G E" letters attached to the panel. The center "D" was installed upside down, and I pulled off the panel thinking I would unscrew the nuts and turn it over. No such luck... the letters were peened on (or whatever the term is for how the rivet them).

I also had this clunking noise in the left rear quarter panel, and got tired of it so I decided to pull off the trim panel and check it out. The car still had the factory plastic rain shield covering the opening into the quarter panel, and I hated to remove it but that clunking was driving me nuts. I carefully peeled back the plastic and reached in, and pulled out the culprit. It was a Budweiser bottle, circa 1970's era. I can't be absolutely certain, but that plastic shield did not look like it had ever been removed prior to that.

Car must have been built on a Friday at beer thirty!

 

[MoparMuscleGuy]

Here ya go. MMG

 

[BuiltPoly318]

Everyone probably remembers this one:

 

[MoparBill]

I went to look at a '68 GTX that was for sale once, and it had '68 front marker lights and '69 rear marker lights. It was way overpriced to begin with, so I didn't bother to look if the quarters were changed or just had different holes cut for the markers.

 

[696pack]

I went to look at a '68 GTX that was for sale once, and it had '68 front marker lights and '69 rear marker lights. It was way overpriced to begin with, so I didn't bother to look if the quarters were changed or just had different holes cut for the markers.

Most likely was rear end clipped using a complete 69 rear clip. Very common back in the day an most never noticed or cared about this minor change.

 

[Cranky]

I also had this clunking noise in the left rear quarter panel, and got tired of it so I decided to pull off the trim panel and check it out. The car still had the factory plastic rain shield covering the opening into the quarter panel, and I hated to remove it but that clunking was driving me nuts. I carefully peeled back the plastic and reached in, and pulled out the culprit. It was a Budweiser bottle, circa 1970's era. I can't be absolutely certain, but that plastic shield did not look like it had ever been removed prior to that.

Car must have been built on a Friday at beer thirty!

Having stuff like that was kinda common but mostly with soft drink bottles etc.

 

[jag_mopar]

Now, this is the dumbest

I had found this car in a junk yard in Miami. NOTE, the detail to Aero Dynamics. This ingenuity floats over to the USA from Cuba on rafts made up of tires and Styrofoam and old pickup trucks.

JAG

 

[72Satellite440]

Thats one ugly K car- damn

Me & my bud took his pathfinder 4x4 ing often and after he noticed a small crack-running down the center of his frame on both sides(just in front of the rear axle)
- We used a grinder to see whats what & the previous owner used spray foam and autobody puddy to fill in a inch of rusted away frame -running about 4 feet. It was all undercoated, so at a quick glance it looked normal. People doing this should be shot

 

[sicksatellite]

Here's some more...

 

[kiwigtx]

There was a '69 and a half Dodge Charger over here in the 80's....half '69 & half '70...I'll try to dig out a picture.

And at a large Muscle Car show here back in 2002, one of the display engines on an engine stand had the carburetor bolted on backwards.

 

[Kern Dog]

Mopar put out some late 70s B-bodies with strange things like drum brake on one side in front, disk on the other.

I'm calling Bull-Crap on this one!
No way this happened. I can see them putting the wrong trim or decals on.

 

[YY1]

Not sure this is on par with previous posts but...back when I was working a a timeshare in O town, I had just gotten my future brother in law on as a helper. We both had 2.2 turbo cars but were talking about our RWD cars. About the time we were finishing up, one of the housemen comes up and really want's to get in on the conversation. The line that sticks in my head is "You know, I customize cars, too"...

So he takes us outside to look at his 5th Ave.

It's 99.9% bone stock, and the only things that could even be remotely considered "customized" were a CD hanging from the mirror (the car had the factory radio and no CD player) and a set of cheap parts store "opera lights" screwed to the C pillars with big, pan head sheet metal screws, crooked, and standing off about an inch from the vinyl with the wires for the lights hanging out from under them.

The guy was standing there, pointing at his car, and beaming with pride!

AWKWARD.

 

[earlyrides]

When we first bought our 69 Road Runner, it was the first Mopar for us also.
I thought it was strange the way that the air cleaner was tilted towards the back.
So we test drove the rough looking car in primer black and I couldnt believe how much torque it had and how fast it was. (67 Camaro small block and 68 Cougar small block as my reference)
Later, after we bought the car I realized the 18 year old kid that we got the car from had installed the Edelbrock Torker intake on the 383 backwards.
But then again, how smart were any of us at 18?
It has gotten a few more cajones since that day so long ago.