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

[YY1]

IDK, on that 400/600/Le Baron convertible-

At least you can see out the side windows, maybe open the door, get some breeze out the back window (or toss cans out), open the trunk, and hey, the rear aerodynamics and styling aren't that much worse than mid 80's gm's.

 

[Mr.SpeedFreak]

When I started digging into the amateur-hour bodywork that had been done on the back half of my '69 Charger sometime before I bought it, I find out a '68 quarter was brazed on in some pretty old repair. And when whatever other genius got their hands into doing the lower quarter patch on that side, they just plasma-cut a lopsided completely incorrect rectangle in the quarter for the side marker.

And on the other side of the car the lower quarter and trunk extension had rotted almost completely away, so what's an expert bodyman to do? Apparently just throw a home-made sheet metal patch right over the top of it. :head_smack:

I just recently finished up correcting all this stuff, but man has my poor Charger seen some $h!t. lol

 

[67 coronet]

i have seen lots of stupidity.from no hold down distributors shooting out on back fire to people filling up the crankcase till they see the oil.(ya,at the fill hole!)prob biggest flub was years ago.when i was running a super shops.guy comes in about 9 times while trying to get his ride going,wont run.i stop by his place after all the advise dont work and look at his ride.after about 15 min of looking has no spark and wire to points is constant ground.look inside distrib and wire to points is on upside down and touching the advance plate.only thing the makes this really dumb is the guy turns out to be an aircraft electrical engineer with 20 plus years under his belt.he thought the wire looked cleaner upsidedown.really?

 

[Mr.SpeedFreak]

Oh and this one's probably pretty common but on my '67 Chevelle someone had the bright idea to use literally a softball-sized glob of bondo backed by duct tape to "fix" the rotted out rear window corner. Still have the bondo chunk I pulled out of the car when I fixed it haha

 

[Budnicks]

I'm talking about the cars of the 60's/70's where the stock steelies center hole on a Ford is smaller than a Mopar. Now I've done that before too but only after burning out the center a bit. I needed a wheel one day and only had one from one of my Mustangs so I grabbed my torch and did the dirty deed until I got the flat tire from my Plymouth fixed....

Here's a good one.... I saw some guy with cobbled/torched up Ford wheel center registers on a Plymouth, because it had a flat tire, too lazy to get it fixed I guess, spent the time & effort cobbling up the wheel instead...LOL...

 

[Funship32]

Wellll....I've not seen too much stuff in the past but my '69 RR had someone who I believe to be either Helen Keller (blind) or Gomer Pile work on her. Right after I bought her I pretty much started sorting weird little odds and ends out. Seeing as I purchased her late last summer it wasn't a big deal. But not too long ago I noticed that the fan belt was rubbing on one of the bolts that held the alt bracket. Took a look and whoever put the alt bracket on did some sort of rube goldberg setup. Right brackets, wrong spacers...one of which was some sort of weird double spacer that looked something like this from the top down O--O and which I personally think is for some sort of valve train assy. So I grabbed the right spacers and got that fixed only to notice the fuel filter was installed backward. While I was at it, I replace the rubber line going from the outlet of the fuel filter to the carb with a steel line. Then I noticed she had '64/'65 hood cushions (the rubber items that fit between the fenders and the hood) on it. All the time I'm thinking "WTH/WTF". Most of the dash lights out. The temp gauge working and not (loose nuts on the circut brd). No oil pressure anything..light or gauge. Wire for the idiot lite completely gone from the bulkhead back to inside the car. Not a big deal since I went an installed a gauge. So as you can read nothing 'major' so to speak but a lot of piddy a$$ stuff that takes time and cost money and just pi$$e$ me off to no end 'cause it is sloppy, sloppy, SLOPPY work.

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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

That is just wrong on so many levels.

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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!

You know, who really does know. I know a few years back I saved a 2 door '68 Fury III from a salvage yard and one of the 1st things I did was open up the panels to grease and lube the window regulators. Well lordy, lordy, in side the panel of the rear window of the driver side, I found a pile of wet rags. Apparently the PO just threw them in the trunk and..how I don't know...said rags went between the space, up and over the rear tire well and landed in that part of the inner panel. Fortunately I found then and removed them before they caused any problems but yeesh...talk about a rust problem in the making.

 

[kiwigtx]

Saw this in a car yard back in September 1987....could not stop laughing. Mopar at its finest...

SoCal mods

 

[Mr.SpeedFreak]

Saw this in a car yard back in September 1987....could not stop laughing. Mopar at its finest...

SoCal mods

"Buckle up, Marge, we're goin to the moon!"

 

[Budnicks]

kiwigtx that's Too damn funny...

 

[kiwigtx]

"Buckle up, Marge, we're goin to the moon!"

......in Thunderbird 6 :headbang:

 

[Mr.SpeedFreak]

"Look! Stop!
CLEAN USED ROCKETCOPTERS"

 

[Kern Dog]

LOVE the porno mustache on the guy next to the white car....

 

[daredevil]

Go wings on backwards,Mustang wheels on Mopars,68-69 Dart tail stripes on backwards,69 tail stipes on 68 cars,highback bucket seats in 69 and earlier cars,fan blades on backwards,high impact paint on 69 and earlier cars,73 Road Runner hood on a 71 Road Runner,raisin brand hoods on 68 Coronets,pistol grips in A bodies...

Hey I like high impact paint

 

[nomax]

Yup! Funny as heck...Seen one around here ...I couldn't stop laughing

Probably the dumbest thing I've seen is Pep Boys Spinner Hubcaps on a four door econo car, and one isn't spinning, the other three are wobbly and threaten road rage at any minute! lol

 

[charliesharp]

I worked with a guy that put a space saver spare on inside out on the front of his escort because it was the wrong one and that was the only way it would clear the brake caliper.

 

[ws27]

I have a good one done by yours truly. At 15 before I could drive, I figured out on my own that Volare discs would bolt on to my Coronet. Did this by use of a tape measure. I even sent out the calipers to be sand blasted and rebuilt them myself. Being the over confident 15 year old that I was, I was certain that I remembered which caliper went where. Long story shot for some reason I couldn't get a pedal. I bled and bled, nothing. I finally figured out that they must have been made wrong since the bleed screws were on the bottom. I could never have mixed sides, never even crossed my mind. I took each caliper off held it in my hand and bled them with the bleed screw on the top. Haha, I showed those calipers. It was a few years later that a now very good friend had it on a lift and said something like "wow, Volare discs, how well do they work? I told him great. You do know they are on backwards, right?" All I could do is stand there with my mouth open.

 

[Mopar-Charger]

Upside down steering wheels, the sorry excuse for wiring under the dash of most multi owner cars, and of course:

[video=youtube;03Igd8tWma4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=03Igd8tWma4[/video]

 

[BIGSHCLUNK]

One of my fav's was the sprayfoam sculpted to look like a frame rail. Was smoothed and painted... looked great until the car broke in two! Another is the cardboard of a Pabst 12 pack with a skim coat over it in a quarter. Back in the day I'll bet I'm not the only one who "back in the day" used the campbells soup can for exhaust system repair.

 

[sublimegtx]

Go wings on backwards,Mustang wheels on Mopars,68-69 Dart tail stripes on backwards,69 tail stipes on 68 cars,highback bucket seats in 69 and earlier cars,fan blades on backwards,high impact paint on 69 and earlier cars,73 Road Runner hood on a 71 Road Runner,raisin brand hoods on 68 Coronets,pistol grips in A bodies...

I'm not the purist type, maybe you are. Just so happens a lot of people put newer more comfortable highback buckets in their cars. And I happen to like high impact colors no matter what mopar they're on. Guess my car looks dumb?? I don't really give a $hit what anyone but me thinks about it. Just my $.02

 

[747mopar]

I've seen a few, I saw someone use a rag for an oil cap on the valve cover, if that isn't bad enough the headers were leaking so bad that you could see fire spitting out "wait, that was my brother and it burned to the ground". I also saw someone that evidently loved the Fast & Furious use conduit to fasten a 2' tall plywood wing on a Honda. Another was I guy used a 8" grinder to prep a car for paint and then painted it gloss black "it looked like a carp". I almost forgot the best one, a guy I worked with had to repair his fuel pump in his S10 it was such a pain that he strapped the tank in the passenger seat with the seat belt and ran the fuel lines threw the firewall "did I mention he smoked". The same guy also hit a deer and busted his headlight out, as he held it he spray foam it back into place.

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I'm not the purist type, maybe you are. Just so happens a lot of people put newer more comfortable highback buckets in their cars. And I happen to like high impact colors no matter what mopar they're on. Guess my car looks dumb?? I don't really give a $hit what anyone but me thinks about it. Just my $.02

Yeah, that guy hates my car that's for sure. High back buckets-check, high impact paint-check, mustang wheels (boss 427)-check, Coronet stripe-check. I feel proud, I did everything wrong and my car will still look better then it did. Like you "I DON'T CARE".