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Bondo, duct tape, and bailing wire. Time to bash the previous owners

Posted by Daze on November 10, 2008, 9:55 am
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Lets face it most these cars are around 40 years old or older, and in most cases have had many owners. During the course of previous owners many of our cars have been "repaired" in ways that that never should have been done. I have several I found on my cars and would love to here the ones you found on your cars. My mustang started life as a manual transmission car, but when the person I bought it from bought it, it had been converted to an automatic but the clutch linkage was still in the car. With a desire to have a manual car her father put a 3 speed back in it, but instead of getting the correct shifter linkage he chose to make his own out of all thread and enlarge the hole in the transmission tunnel by about 6" to make it work Also on my Mustang the floor board were repaired with stolen road signs.... well maybe some one gave them to them but either way I had to remove them and do the repair with actual patch panels. On my Galaxie the drivers side front fender had been repaired with bondo. A good rule when using filler, is "no thicker than a nickel". The previous owner probably thought the rule was "no thicker than a nickel up on its side" Also on my Galaxie and I am assuming all Galaxies pree 65 the inside door handles are held on with retainer clips that take a special special tool to remove. On the drivers side door handle the clip had obviously become damaged or lost so the natural solution in PO fashion to keep the handle from falling off was to put it back on with JB weld I had a really hard time getting it off with out damaging the door panel and once it was off the handle an mechanism were not repairable. lucky for me there was a 62 in a local junk yard.

Message Thread: Bondo, duct tape, and bailing wire. Time to bash the previous owners - Daze November 10, 2008, 9:55 am Re: Bondo, duct tape, and bailing wire. Time to bash the previous owners - JCAllison November 10, 2008, 2:04 pm Hey JCA good tip - Daze November 10, 2008, 3:15 pm Re: Hey JCA good tip - JCAllison November 10, 2008, 5:49 pm Now I get it you only come here when the other forum is down :) :) :) - Daze November 10, 2008, 5:55 pm Re: Now I get it you only come here when the other forum is down :) :) :) - JCAllison November 10, 2008, 6:51 pm No one else has previous owner repair stories???? - Daze November 11, 2008, 3:49 pm My previous owner story. - Jay November 11, 2008, 4:11 pm DID SOMEONE SAY BONDO????? - Grimm November 11, 2008, 9:03 pm frame repair? - roger Schroeder November 12, 2008, 3:29 pm « Back to thread

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