Bubba Engineering
Drifting
Joined: May 2002
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From: Sacramento California
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jul 2009
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I once saw a Pepsi can embedded in the fiberglass work on the front of a 1962 corvette.
the idiot that owned this car sent it to a total bubba to restore , the guy spent like 25k of the owners money, took five years and left it incomplete and totally screwed up mess of junk
So a quality shop had to undo five years of wrong body work. and 60 thousand dollars latter the owner has a beautiful frame off NoN matching numbers car .....in addition to the 25 grand on the bubba and the purchase price of another 27K.
some people got more money than sense.
the idiot that owned this car sent it to a total bubba to restore , the guy spent like 25k of the owners money, took five years and left it incomplete and totally screwed up mess of junk
So a quality shop had to undo five years of wrong body work. and 60 thousand dollars latter the owner has a beautiful frame off NoN matching numbers car .....in addition to the 25 grand on the bubba and the purchase price of another 27K.
some people got more money than sense.
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Pro
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: Sedalia MO
I'm not trying to defend Bubba, but this thread has brought to mind one of my favorite Shakespeare quotes - "the evil men do lives after them, the good oft is interred with their bones".
I'm just thinking about how much we rely on the internet to properly maintain our cars. This forum is one of the main reasons I'm able to maintain my car myself, without it I image I would either need to pay others, or yes, release my inner Bubba.
Somethings are simply idiotic, like heating the coils to weaken then, to lower the car. But many other things that get laid on the proverbial Bubba, I sometimes think, would I do any different if I didn't have the resources I have today?
I'm just thinking about how much we rely on the internet to properly maintain our cars. This forum is one of the main reasons I'm able to maintain my car myself, without it I image I would either need to pay others, or yes, release my inner Bubba.
Somethings are simply idiotic, like heating the coils to weaken then, to lower the car. But many other things that get laid on the proverbial Bubba, I sometimes think, would I do any different if I didn't have the resources I have today?
Pro
Joined: May 2011
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From: Karlsruhe (Germany)
Yesterday i did my own Bubba work:
Fixed a pin hole in the radiator with Epoxy and some glass fiber.
A friend of mine was in emergency with a cracked radiator some weeks ago, and asked me what to do. I told him it would be Bubba, but maybe Epoxy would work. It was a 5mm crack, but it worked well at his daily driver - until today no leaks.
So i tried it at my Vette. Hoping it will work too
Fixed a pin hole in the radiator with Epoxy and some glass fiber.
A friend of mine was in emergency with a cracked radiator some weeks ago, and asked me what to do. I told him it would be Bubba, but maybe Epoxy would work. It was a 5mm crack, but it worked well at his daily driver - until today no leaks.
So i tried it at my Vette. Hoping it will work too
Drifting
Joined: Jan 2011
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From: Hamilton Virginia
As said by a couple others here, fixes and changes was hotrodding of years past. Some things are down right stupid as in heating springs to lower a car, but there are things that are pretty interesting on how they fixed something to get it going, and just never changed it cause it worked. There was something nifty I saw on an old Volkswagon beetle that was a design from the factory, but pretty stupid if you think about it. The factory ran a hose from the spare tire to the windshield washer tank that kept the tank pressured so your windshield washer squirters would work. The bad part is if you didnt keep the spare tire aired up, you would be in trouble if you had a flat.
Pro
Joined: May 2011
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From: Karlsruhe (Germany)
Today it looks ridiculous.
Look at the rear end of the C3 - they used the half shaft as a suspension arm to save money.
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From: Watkins Glen NY
Had plenty of vacuum on the wipers, what a dumb
That'll work