Bungee Cords holding the passenger door closed.

 

How about hockey pucks used for a body lift.

 

I saw something absolutely disgraceful a couple weeks ago. An old dent-side with a 70-80's era chebby bed on it. It was such a horrific site, but I couldn't look away. After I composed myself I said prayer for the owner. He knows not what he does!

 

My personal favorite was the garage door type springs holding the rear brake shoes on my truck when I purchased it...

 

A girl here at work just bought on older Integra, 3 of the 4 motor mounts the rubber is gone and in it's place is sprayable expanding foam, the kind you fill holes around home plumbing...

 

I know a guy that pulled out his tail light and found that someone had left a wrench behind it!

 

I recently bought a 1978 f250 custom for it's bed. Once I got the bed off, look what I found.



Let's just say that shock doesn't do it's job...

Something else with this truck. I think the rear brakes must have been locking up, so what was the previous owners solution? Drain the rear brakes reservoir in the master cylinder! Viola, no more locking rear brakes!

 

30 pack is in the mail!

Sorry this wasn't on a dent side- A friend of mine had a 60's Pontiac LaMans in high school. He went to sand it down to paint it and found that most of the front fenders were made from cereal boxes covered in Bondo!

 

Hahaha my old fan shroud was bailin wired together at the top and bottom.

 

The dweeb who had my '76 before me apparently didn't know what a steering wheel puller was. He must have tried to hammer the wheel off because the wheel is broken at both ends of the horn bar (clear down to the steel ring on the front AND back) and the upper column bearing was destroyed. Nifty.

He also took the center clearance marker light off the roof and mounted a CB antenna in its place. When I got the truck the antenna was gone, but so was the light. This is Oregon. It rains here. It rains here A LOT. So now I have a destroyed headliner and rust on the inside of the floor pan, but not the outside.

 

my e-brake handle is a pair of vice grips. my dash pad is just sitting on the dash. the plastic insert that goes around the gauge cluster is sitting on to of it.

edit: i used speaker wire to hold the rubber pad to the steering wheel. i know, its sad.

 

Did you ever figure out the story on those?

 

I used to have a 1967 Bronco that was pretty much held together with bubble gum and chicken wire. It's PO's had beat it so much--then no body that had it before ever fixed anything right.

Right after I got it I was going down a bumpy dirt road and my radio quit working. You can't have that. I went to check the fuse box and found it covered in black electrical tape. When I pulled the tape off about $2.50 in pennies fell out of it!!

Replaced the headers and found that the PO put a set on it that were not made for the Bronco. They got around that by cutting the headers and bending them around the frame then welding them back together. Made it real fun to get them out too.

I finally got curious about all the extra rubber pads on the frame above the springs and discovered they were covering holes that rusted through the frame.

I finally decided the old girl was a lost cause. I was young and dumb about buying vehicles. But at least I bought that one for $2,000 and sold it for $4,000!

 

I've been lucky;
no thermostat, door panels gone and doors used for garbage holding-they held alot!
good ol screwdriver holes through the dirty air filter, no wing nut or stud-just the lid laying on top of the carb. No wonder that engine smoked bad.

 

Uh,lets see,I CAN NOT open my glove box,cause the Punk who had it before my dad bent the button upwards,tried the credit card trick,no work,so Ill have to try something else any ideas?
Sorry I may be off topic.