To that person who owned my car.
 

What would you say to that individual, that owned your car before you. After you got it home and stripped it?
1) Just because it's carpet, doesn't mean shag carpet goes in a car.
2) Galvanized steel and sheet metal screw doesn't make for a good long term repair.
3) That noise you hear in the back is not knocking from your home-made 1/4" flat steel ladder bar, it's from your rear end grinding metal.
4) The rust and scale in your car doesn't give it character it's from your galvanized patch panels that you cleverly installed.
5) Last but not least. the gas tank is nice and secure, doesn't mean it's okay to secure your relocated battery to it VIA 3" sheet-metal screws.

Oh man...
 

Hang in there man...it usually get's worse.:_paranoid

well that's only 1 of them I own a 66 lemans to Great story
 

I'll tell the story of the lemans I bought fully restored for $800 one day.

1. You said rust in only one place and you've "been all over the car" ....you must be blind.
2. No, 3 out of 11 clips holding the heater box together is not adequate.
3. So, you did a FULL rebuild of the front suspension using dryrotted bushings?
4. The shifter arm shouldn't be the only thing holding the console in place.
5. When you replace the engine with one from a later era, you're not supposed to reuse the original timing cover/pointer on the newer balancer even though it will bolt on. Yes 5 degrees is a lot to miss TDC by.

1. Bondo is not an appropriate substitute for welding.
2. OTOH, the lack of welds made it easy to take apart the shoddy repairs, so thanks for that.
3. Apparently, people have widely varying definitions of "ready for paint."
4. When you go to spray primer, for God's sake, remove all the trim first. It was a massive PITA to have to remove all that overspray from otherwise good stainless.
5. Also, good idea to mask off the inside of the car before you spray primer, too. Not that much of it was worth saving, but it's just the whole idea.

And don't forget to remove the glass, trim, interior, lenses, urethane body parts, chrome,ENGINE and transmission BEFORE you take it to media blasting.....:faint:

It's amazing how much of the car will need to go in the trash if you don't.

"Would you like to come pick up all the meth and speed i found when i removed the bench seat?"
"Silicon probably wouldnt be my first choice for holding the window trim on"
"I just love the way the 80 grit DA marks on the GLASS stick out after i wash my car, tape is cheap man"

HAHAHA

WOW! thought it was just my previous car owner who is a genius.

What a great thread, I'll play :lol:

1. Fiberglass is for boats and corvettes. It doesn't strengthen bad welds either.
2. Tar is for streets.
3. An air chisel isn't always the best tool.
4. Those threaded holes in the floors are for seat belts. Don't weld patch panels over them.

After I found all the drugs I pulled the carpet and stripped the entire car! I drove around paranoid for a while. It would be some bs to get busted for possession considering I've never done drugs or even thought about trying them, EVER!

My 89 Iroc a few years ago:

1) No sir! A bungee cord is not just as good as a tranny mount.
2) No Sir! Orange extention cord does not make a good wiring harness for your headlights.
3) No Sir! White tub chalk does not make good T tops seals.
4) No Sir! An old gym sock does not work just as good as a airfilter on the TPI.


But, What do you want for 500 bucks. :lol:

OMG it's so funny I am in tears. It's amazing what people do.

From Ty's project "FreedomBird"

-Duct tape on the backside of a rusty hole then covered with bondo is not a suitable way of repairing rust
-The proper way to put on quarter skins is not butting them up to originals, tack welding every 4 inches, then banging in the seam with a hammer, and pouring in buckets of bondo
-holes filled with bondo are not done correctly
-a 6x6 piece of sheetmetal from a 89 Nissan does not qualify as a trunk drop down support
-Wear a hood and look a what your welding
-1/4" plate welded over the holes in the frame rails looks like crap
-I'm sure there more

You forgot "filling holes with tin foil and then covering with bondo is not a proper subframe repair!" :eek:

This thread is great!

-Cutting a hole in the inner fender with an air chisel to replace the blower motor is not the way to do it.
-Your riveted aluminum patch might not rust, but please...steel is cheap and welding isnt rocket science.

1. A C clamp is not the proper way to hold on a cross member!
2. Great stuff foam is not the proper way to seal the quarter panels to the trunk drops!
3. If you're going to rivet galvanized sheet metal all over the old stuff at least cut the rust out!
4. Thanks for the rusted tools I found inside various panels!
5. What would possess you to put a double DIN FORD radio in a chevelle dash?
6. WHY IS THERE SO MUCH METRIC HARDWARE!!!

redfire69..... our cars must have come from the same owner

Sheet aluminum patch panels on the floorboards covering the seat belt mounts.

When I got the car the owner didn't even know the seat belts were in the card board box of "extra parts" he gave me.

Fiberglass to shave the turn signals.

Bondo anywhere and everywhere.... and a whole lot of other crap used to patch that I can't even identify.

-Dave

The more I think about this stuff the more I get pissed off. Oh well, I'm learning a lot because of the previous idiots "fixes".

I'd like to thank my former owner for never driving my car and leaving it parked in Mom's garage for 15 years. :unibrow: She's finally living the life. haha

Todd --

I was thinking "you guys should buy better cars to start with"..... :rofl:

I just sold a 53,000 ORIGINAL OWNER So CAL 69 Camaro drop top.... didn't have an inch of any rust - or even the hint of it.

Way cheaper to pay up for good stuff than spend a year in body jail.

GREAT LAUGHS AT ALL THE "CRAP" THOUGH!! Seriously -- funny stuff.

Now you tell us! LOL!

Whats up with that? Not a mention on here? Got anything else you are selling? LOL

Darren

So here's a couple of things I'd have liked to have said when I bought the 37 Ford... (I knew what I was buying, but still....)


#1 - Why would you spend good money on paint and stick the body over a chassis held together with chewing gum?

#2 - Brakes are a far more critical component than chrome.

#3 - Dude! That's an exhaust leak - not a "mechanical header sound".

#4 - A flip out black and white TV does not make up for that birds nest of wires.

#5 - Yeah... it would overheat in BAKERSFIELD, CA even though it has an electric fan.... 10V's to the fan might be more of a drawback than you think. Ya think?

#6 - That stud on the starter motor - might not be the best place to gang a half dozen accessories... unfused...

#7 - Remember that "big cam"? It must have gone flat when I found the vacuum leak. It went away completely when I bumped the timing from 4 to 12....



:lateral: :cheers: :woot:

When you have stuff like that -- there's a WAITING LIST of guys that want it - they sell themselves.

LOL

The line formed around the block and you had to have a tent to camp out for a couple of days "prior".

OK I'll play:

- Brushed on primer is not a substitute for a vinyl top
- Zap strapping the clutch to the floor board when you swap from manual to auto
- Glueing a beer bottle cap to the dash - for what reason I"ll never know
- thick layer of bondo overtop of rust in the 1/4's not a good way to repair rust. - see pic :lol:
- bashing in the firewall with a hammer to make clearance for a larger distributor is not a great idea.

I only drove 6 hours to come and look at the car, perhaps washing the 100+ piles of bird**** off it isnt too much to ask.
Aluminum foil is NOT a power steering cap.
Contrary to your belief, skull and crossbone stickers all over the interior is NOT cool.

Im guilty of doing that! haha. it was my driver and as long as the dizzy was there it was out of site, out of mind! Now i have an LS setup..:faint:
Shaving the firewall is now on my list of things to do..

You are right Ty. You are supposed to use cardboard. Everybody knows tin foil is too weak and thin.:D

I did this one to my car when I was in high school. Turned out to be one of the smartest things I ever did when I went back to a manual trans this past year.

Snip the zip tie, hook up the linkage and haul ass!

Go stand in the corner - you're on time out for 15 minutes!!! :rofl:

Man you guys have had some crazy things happen. I think we all have bought cars from Bubba Rays auto emporium, one time or another. No offense to anyone who is actually named Bubba ray.

Some of these make you ask the question, did a shop do work this bad? or was the prior owner that dumb? maybe in some cases both :willy:

:rofl: now but hoping I don't find something to add to the topic in my car.

Haha, yeah, I probably deserve that. My car is a rolling homage to many of the things these guys have mentioned. The previous owner "restored" the car in 1983 and the materials of choice were definitely fiberglass, yellow wire, and epoxy to make up for the welder that must have been stolen from them.

I'm working on fixing them as my skills, tool collection and budget allow.