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When my dash clock was being restored and I still wanted to go to car shows I stuck a fender emblem in a Tupperware container lid that I painted red in the clock cavity and was just fine with it - and nobody ever said a word about it...
Was that wrong of me ? "George Costanza"
OK. Lets not get too carried away, I've used coat hanger and various types of wire to hold things up in a pinch....mostly mufflers/exhaust pipes and once to hold a driver's door closed....another time a front bumper...
My Dad used to trade in some real gems in the 60's...
When my dash clock was being restored and I still wanted to go to car shows I stuck a fender emblem in a Tupperware container lid that I painted red in the clock cavity and was just fine with it - and nobody ever said a word about it...
Was that wrong of me ? "George Costanza"
Last edited by Frankie the Fink; Feb 21, 2020 at 09:36 AM.
When I was car pooling in college, I had a 59 Edsel (yes, I know) that the tail lights went out all of a sudden. My turn to drive so Dad had a bunch of flashlights so I stuck one in each of four holes and switched them on. Turned them off when I got there.
I used a lot of muffler tape once or twice to pass the Florida car inspection on my TR6 years ago.
Yeah, same here, but I didn’t know about muffler tape. I worked in a bond shop so got a piece of very thin stainless steel, wrapped it around the exhaust leak, then wrapped fiberglass prepregged with a high temp phenolic resin around that. Let the exhaust heat cure it. Lasted about two months before the resin cooked away.
First confession - years ago, on more than one occasion I used a pop can and hose clamps to repair a broken exhaust pipe
Second confession - I was working at a gas station and actually charged the customer for doing it!
(Disclaimer - the people in each case asked for the cheapest temporary fix we could do, just to keep it from dragging and from making a racket. They were told emphatically it was NOT going to last long.)
They used to make something called Muffler Patch (which I don't see anymore), you could slather it on a holed muffler and let it set up and it would last (for a while) but rusty mufflers will soon develop more holes and after a while you had more "patch" than muffler...
