Bodges and really bad mods.

[Velgreeno]

Hey folks. Out of all the time you have been into buses, VW's etc, what are the worst if any bodges and modifications you have seen or think no definitely not for me ? Or you have restored a bus in the past or pottered around and have found something and gone what the bleep have they done here ? ha. .

 

[sparkywig]

Plenty, but what you have to remember is that these vehicle were basically scrap in the 80's & 90's. People didn't want to spend a lot to get through the next MOT, so riveted panels, paper, foam and filler repairs, etc were just a way of making them survive for another year.

 

[Clem]

Yeah, it’s another world now. I once fibreglassed metal plates into my beetle inner wheel arches to get though a mot. I didn’t have a welder , repair panels didn’t really exist and I was skint. A pot of underseal was everyone’s saviour.

 

[ozziedog]

As said above, chicken wire, papier-mâché and any type of blackjack could get you another years motoring. The alternative for the skintos was to buy another two hundred pound recent mot pass and drive that for a year or two where someone else had chewing gummed the rubbers to the rust and riveted baked bean cans over the muffler and thrown several old pairs of tights into the gearbox and the odd stocking in the diff. WD40 over all the leads come winter and fat self tappers with washers and all sorts for core plugs, and raw eggs in the waterworks.

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,, almost forgot about cable stretchers