I can also remember muffler tape. Probably about the same.

 

Looked okay from the front and if you popped the set button, it would run for about a minute or so.

 

Yeah - the patch came with some window screen looking material that you laid in place and then smeared the goo onto it to harden.

Its prob no longer around....

 

Drove to gas station with my first car (1960) for a quart of oil and the attendant tried to pour it in the dip stick tube using a funnel. We both assumed that's where it went. begee22

 

Bet you dimes to donuts it worked far better than your clock and worked far longer too

 

And after that, it was right on the money two times a day!

 

I did this back in the day too, but I actually did it 2 years ago on my son's beater Civic so that he could drive the car until he could get to the muffler shop Go ahead and call me Bubba. I deserve it.

 

[img]blob:https://www.corvetteforum.com/2aa7f740-be47-4795-ae94-30a807409ff9[/img]Good ole vice grips! A friend in college had a 58 Chevy with a 348 and a 4 speed - he used two pair of vice grips on the shift levers to change gears!

 

That stuff was too expensive for me, I use Rutland furnace cement!
Very good and cheap!

 

 

Reminds me of one of Mitch Hedberg's jokes.....

"I think Pringles originally intended on making tennis *****....... but on the day the rubber was supposed to show up, there came a truck of potatoes....... they said &%$# it, chop 'em up!!!"

 

Bubba on the tools … or is that; Bubba is a tool

 

Oh yeah, I used the one that was a tape and the slather on patch. I wonder how much Asbestos was in that concoction?

 

You dudes need to chill....'Bubba' makes it 'work' with whatever is at hand, resourceful to the core, born engineers. I give them the respect they deserve. Half us guys would be calling AAA while bubba already fixed it with gum and and wire ties and is on his way home to shaky puddin' and an ice cold Pabst.

 

Wrong guy - you're thinking of McGuyver!

 

In the middle of a summer, Bubba and Billy Ray are fishing in a lake, while a tourist on water skis keeps doing circles around their boat...

Bubba eyes the tourist, and, after a while, mutters:

"That guy sure's scarin' away all them fish with that racket..."

"Sure is," Billy Ray agrees.

"Say," Bubba suggests, "why don't we smack an oar next time he passes us, an' splash him?"

Billy Ray likes the idea, and they do just that - but the startled skier loses control, falls into the water, and goes under.

"Dayum," Bubba says, "we better save his *** 'afore he drowns!"

So the boys dive in, and after a while they manage to pull out one utterly unmoving, pale, limp man. They drag him into their boat, and Billy Ray begins to give him artificial respiration.

"Is he breathin'?" Bubba asks after a while. Billy Ray shakes his head.

"Naw, not yet," he answers, "but God dayum, don't his mouth stink some'n' awful! I can barely stand it!"

"Well, keep goin'," Bubba says, "we need to save'im! He went all the way to the bottom!"

So Billy Ray keeps giving the tourist the kiss of life. A few minutes later, Bubba frowns.

"Say, Billy Ray," he says, "wasn't the guy we scared wearin' them water skis?"

"Sure was," Billy Ray says, "why?"

"'Cuz this guy's wearin' ice skates..."

Bubba and Earl sitting in a boat...

...fishing, chewing tobacco and drinking beer, when Bubba says "I think I'm gonna divorce the wife, she ain't spoke to me in two months."
Earl rubs his chin, spits tobacco juice over the side, takes a swallow of beer and says "Ya better think about it, a woman like that's hard find."

Skeeter and Bubba got promoted from Privates to Sergeants.

Shortly after, they were out walking when Bubba said "Hey Skeeter! There's the NCO Club! What say we go in there and have us a drink?"

"But we don't belong in the NCO Club!" Skeeter protested. "We's Privates!"

Bubba points to the new stripes sewn on their clothes and says, "No we ain't, Skeeter! We's Sergeants now!"

The two went in and ordered some drinks. Some time later, a hooker walks up to Bubba and says, "You sure are a cute one. I'd love to take you somewhere and make you feel real good, but I've got a bad case of gonorrhea."

Bubba pulled Skeeter in close and whispered "Quick! Go look in the dictionary and see what gonorrhea means. If it's good, give me an okay sign!"

Skeeter quickly leaves the bar and comes back 15 minutes later. He flashes Bubba a thumbs up and Bubba runs off with the hooker.

A few weeks later, Bubba is in the infirmary with a bad case of... You guessed it, gonorrhea. Skeeter comes to visit and Bubba starts yelling at him. "Why in the hell did you gimme the okay fer?"

"Bubba, I looked it up in the dictionary. That book said gonorrhea only affects the privates. But you said we's Sergeants now!"

Bubba the Entrepreneur

Bubba and Billy Bob are walking down the street in Atlanta, and they see a sign on a store which reads:
“Suits $5.00 each!

Shirts $2.00 each, trousers $2.50 each”
Bubba says to his pal, “Billy Bob, Look here! We could buy a whole gob of these, take ’em back to Sand Mountain, sell ‘em to our friends, and make a fortune. Just let me do the talking’ ’cause if they hear your accent, they might think we're ignorant, and won't wanna sell that stuff to us. Now, I’ll talk in a slow Georgia drawl so’s they don't know we are from Alabama.”
They go in and Bubba says, with his best fake Georgia drawl, “I'll take 50 of them suits at $5.00 each, 100 of them there shirts at $2.00 each, 50 pairs of them there trousers at $2.50 each. I'll back up my pickup and…”
The owner of the shop interrupts, “Ya’ll from Alabama, ain’t ya?”
"Well…yeah,” says a surprised Bubba…."How come you knowed that?”
"Because this is a dry cleaners”

Everybody knows Bubba

Bubba was bragging to his boss one day, "You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them."

Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, "OK, Bubba how about Tom Cruise?"

"Sure, yes, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it." So Bubba and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise's door, and sure enough, Tom Cruise, shouts, "Bubba! Great to see you! You and your friend come right in and join me for lunch!"

Although impressed, Bubba's boss is still skeptical. After they leave Cruise's house, he tells Bubba that he thinks Bubba's knowing Cruise was just lucky.

"No, no, just name anyone else," Bubba says.

"President Obama," his boss quickly retorts.

"Yes," Bubba says, "I know him, let's fly out to Washington."
And off they go. At the White House, Obama spots Bubba on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying, "Bubba, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let's have a cup of coffee first and catch up."

Well, the boss is very shaken by now, but still not totally convinced. After they leave the White house grounds, he expresses his doubts to Bubba, who again implores him to name anyone else.

"The Pope," his boss replies.

"Sure!" says Bubba.

"My folks are from Argentina, and I've known the Pope a long time."

So off they fly to Rome. Bubba and his boss are assembled with the masses in Vatican Square when Bubba says, "This will never work. I can't catch the Pope's eye among all these people. Tell you what, I know all the guards so let me just go upstairs and I'll come out on the balcony with the Pope."

And he disappears into the crowd headed toward the Vatican. Sure enough, half an hour later Bubba emerges with the Pope on the balcony. But by the time Bubba returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart attack and is surrounded by paramedics.

Working his way to his boss' side, Bubba asks him, "What happened?"

His boss looks up and says, "I was doing fine until you and the Pope came out on the balcony and the man next to me said, "Who's that on the balcony with Bubba?"

 

It's a C2 clock

 

I knew a Bubba years ago that was a crackerjack car mechanic.
But I understand the term pretty well. Around here, it applies to young guys driving lifted Ram trucks with loud mufflers.

 

Whatever the **** you do---DON'T TOUCH IT!!!!

 

quick google search shows muffler weld and muffler and tailpipe putty available at Ballmart.