breakdown truck

[rich.]

11p might be too much
meanwhile on my search for a lhd sd1 rover vitesse...

http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/924384934.htm?ca=18_s

[JPB]

Sometimes, something is so wrong that it's right..

[TerryG]

I'm not sure I like that but I do want a go.

[GHT]

Sometimes, something is so wrong that it's right..

Er, no! That's like drinking yourself under the table and then suggesting that if you keep drinking you will drink yourself sober.
Somebody once suggested that my car would make a great woody. All I can say to that is: "Where's the eye bleach?"

[TerryG]

Make do and mend. if your bodywork has been shot to bits and you happen to be a carpenter..............

[rich.]

i actually find that land rover quite attractive its probably the only one i would ever like to own! i wish we could see more cars like that on the road today

[GHT]

Make do and mend. if your bodywork has been shot to bits and you happen to be a carpenter..............

Somebody that I worked with, back in the late seventies, put make do and mend to the ultimate test. He had four kids that kept him permanently skint, he ran one of those Peugeots that had three rows of seats. Coming to work one morning he heard an alarming thump coming from the rear underside. At lunchtime we peered underneath to find his subframe shot. He and two workmates, measured the crossbeam section of the chassis, removed it, cleaned up around the holes, then, using a seven pound hammer, replaced the beam with a length of four by two sawn timber, hammering it into position. They then daubed the ends of the wood and where it joined the chassis with GRP resin. Wacked on a load of fibre glass, more resin on the fibre glass. It went off rock solid. He then aerosol sprayed his handywork, and ran the motor on. He even drove it with all his family in it. I've no idea if the MOT engineer got to see it, but I tell you, it freaked me.

[TerryG]

It's amazing the bodges that everyone seemed to get away with in the 80s (and i'm assuming before).

[rich.]

i could never get away with anything in the 80's

[JPB]

It's amazing the bodges that everyone seemed to get away with in the 80s (and i'm assuming before).

Proactive recycling, whether as it applies to vehicles or to urban myths, is a great thing. The last time I heard that story, the car was a Ford Anglia Estate and the use of timber was in the sill, floor and bulkhead areas.
What never ceases to amaze me about such practices, be their stories apocryphal or otherwise, is that doing the job properly would, in almost every case, be so much easier and cheaper.
Did I ever tell you about the time I broke down in my A40, somewhere close to the back of beyond at dead of night and, on discovering that number two piston had a hole where its crown had been, managed to fashion a serviceable replacement from a suitably sized lump of a stray fence post which was then whittled to fit using my Swiss Army Knife's piston machining blade.. Oi! Come back, it's true I tells ye.