So what if anything gives you the right to join the proud ranks of the bubbas. List you acomplisments. Mine include;

1.Crappy lookin black tape sealing the gap on my air breather to hood seal.

2. Bolt stuck in stripped bleeder hole.

3. Bicycle brake cable retrofit hood release cable.

4. Plenty of solder on the rad with bottom cap seal removed to prevent pressure build up.

I could probably go on but i think ive embarrased myself enough and have earned the rights to join the club. Dont worry, i make sure my bubba fixes are safe and reliable.

 

Shortly after I bought my vette I was going down the road and I heard a rumble, smash, thud. I thought I had driven over something but there wasn't anything in the road. In my rear view mirror I saw what appeared to be a battery, it was mine. :confused:

Previous bubba had appearently run over something and destroyed the bottom of the battery box. I didn't look under the battery when I inspected the car. Doh...

Needing to drive the car I did a quick fix. I cut a 1/4 inch piece of plywood to fit the bottom of the box and used L brackets to secure it. Four years later it is still holding strong. Anyone close to me really good at doing f-glass work?
:cool:

 

There is a small safety pin (instead of a cotter pin) holding my hood release cable in place. Previous owner did this but I have seen it and done nothing for over 10 years now, I feel like bubba for allowing it to stay that way.

Also felt like bubba years ago when I used the foil backed water heater insulation under my carpet. Since then I have learned that many have done the same thing so I'm not sure if it is bubba or not.

 

I'm currently trying to UNbubba my car. Right now I'm fixing the bubba back bumper. The last owner thought just bolting it to the body would be cool :nono: Next up is replacing bubba's idea of a stereo and antenna. I'm not sure but I think bubble gum might have been involved in the last installation of those parts. I will admit that there was some JB weld involved when I bolted on my intake manifold and snapped off the oil line going to the gauge :lol:

 

I had a bubba fix to fix a bubba fix to get me home once... Bubba had put an aluminum cotter pin in the clutch pedal linkage and NO WASHER!! :nonod: It of course sheared off and left me with no clutch... I checked the gutters on the side of the road and found a wire staple (heavy duty) and that worked to get me home to correct it the right way!!! :cool: :smash:

But, I keep finding where "Bubba has been!!" :crazy: :eek:

 

When I 1st got my 73, the switch for the blower motor didn't work so I had no defroster when it rained and got fog on the inside of the windows...not knowing much about electrical stuff, I found that the blower motor worked but could not trace the wires through the firewall..ran my own wire from realy to switch, now I have defrost but only 1 setting, off & on.

Missing connector rods for door locks, replaced with coathanger wire...hey, it works until I eventually purchase the actual rods. Also one of the retaining clips on 1 of these remaining rods broke off...drilled small hole through connector and lace locked with wire. :smash:

 

1) One morning when I wanted to drive to work, my choke seemed stuck... So I duct taped it open and drove to work.

2) Broke retaining clip on my drivers side door linkage, so I used electrical tape to hold it together, been that way for a year now. :bb

3) Lost spacer bushing/sleeve/washer doodad for alternator mount, so I jambed a bunch of rubber in the hole to take up the space and threw a few washers on the other side for good measure.

I would admit to more bubbas, but this is getting embarassing now. I swear I'll fix all of these things!

 

1. I don't weld, so I bolted in some scrap angle iron to fix my broken seat frame

2. Used 2" fender washers (exposed) and wood screws to hold my cracked door panel on the door

 

Similar but hidden. : The backing on my passenger door panel dry rotted so I glued , using drywall adhesive, some thin wood on the back of the panel , drilled holes for the clips and reattached as normal.

Other than that I have been removing the previous owners , or crappy mechanics, work for years....Seems like they used whatever parts were handy..

 

I'm currently trying to UN-bubba my car too. The list is so to long.

 

I thought the purpose of this forum was to hopefully *UN-bubba* the vettes. But, nope.... it appears we have a slew more Bubba's just adding on to the tinker toys they bought.

Bad, bad, bad! Now go to your room!

So much for the bull. My rear bumper on this '74 was splitting at the seams and the top and just getting worse. Remedy? I used a right hand drill and put two holes on the inside tabs of the bumper near the top. Then I pulled out the flexible clear Permatex and ran a bead along the top of the bumper and leaned a ladder against it for about 4-6 hours. Meanwhile I looped a wire through the holes and tied the bumper back to the frame. A little undercoating to make the wire blend in and..........

Walla.... Bubba was here! :thumbs:

The bumper will go sooner or later, but it no longer looks tacky. Only semi-tacky! :cheers:

 

My drivers side mirror was wobbling very bad when I got the car. I took the face off and wedged a piece of wood under it. Crack it then put the face back on. Fixed.

My headlight **** is held on with silicone adhesive.

My dash speakers(4x6's) didn't line up with the bolts on the dash. The grills are holding them in place.

There is a whole lot of epoxy sealing up my vaccuum reserve canister that rusted through.

There's plenty more from the previous owner, but those are the ones I'll claim.

 

my "new" interior, done by the PO, is held together with a plethera of screws, im still trying to figure out which go where. where 5 screws are needed there are 3 and they are the wrong kind of interior screw, often too long so they cut them short. the door panels are held on by magic, thats my next project. one screw in on and 2 in the other. the sceret to them is the 20 little sheet metal brackets screwed into holes drilled in the fiberglass. in still trying to figure out why a corvette shop wpuld only put in as little screws as possible and the wrong kind, i have all the recipts from a year ago from KLJ Corvettes. well i guess wheni need work like that im going to Georges corvettes. for a while i had a throttle cable bracket made of heavy wire, i needed to drive to the store to buy a bracket so i had to get there some how.
im always finding new stuff but these screws are driving me craxy, im about to just buy a full ibnterior screw set and replace them all. i feel my radio is wired completly wrong too, gotta pull that out. and the shop paid to replace the suspension bushings by the PO only did the eadsy ones, spome are stuill the roting rubber. he paid the least he could for all the work, but had a lot of work odne, that also explains why the front clip was put on with the front tip down and the back up to high and a bit crokked.

MAtt

 

My biggest Bubba fix was the floor pans. I had holes in them so big I could have drove like the Flinstones. But, I didn't want to pay $250 a pop for new pans and I don't have access to a welding machine (it looked like the existing metal was too thin and rusty to weld anyway). So I just rivited in two huge sheets of stainless steel, a few stainless steel straps to reform the curves, covered any gaps in the stainless with fiberglass cloth, and filled in the rest with POR epoxy. Not to mention there are about 5 coats of POR-15 and one coat of Rustoleum satin black mixed in there too. You can see the rivits on the bottom of the car, but my floors are bomb proof now :D .

The rest I'd just like to call "creative ingenuity" :hat .

Matt

 

There are bolts to hold them in place :confused:

I guess I am bubba too, as I am just doing the same thing as you......

 

My door sill plate screw holes were wallowed out, so I used those plastic screw inserts you use to to hold screws into tile or dry wall. Worked perfectly and is invisible.

 

I've bypassed the fuse for the instrument lights since it is not getting power from the headlight switch. I have a wire run, with an inline fuse, from and "ignition on" socket on the fuse panel to the side of the fuse block that feeds power to the guage lights.

 

Not vette related....

But I dumped two cans of black pepper in the radiator to stop the water pump leak in my old 1/2 ton truck. and then drove 7 hours across the desert in 110 degree heat... and didn't have to add any water either....

Warning::::Boy does it stink when you drain the stuff back out... :D

 

My entire radio install. Whoops, a fuse blew again because the radio was on. I'll just put a new one in... *POP* there it goes again completely randomly. Good thing I don't listen to the radio in the Corvette. My coilover install will be Bubbaesque (yay, new word) but be strong and look good when finished, I just cut up my lower control arms and slightly cut the frame (stock coil spring will still seat itself in the pocket).

 

On my current ride, da Jimmy, when I replaced the clutch fan with an e-fan, I didn't know where to get power from, so I ran it straight to the battery. Of cours,e this lets the fan stay on as long as the engine is still hot, so once the summer started rolling in, I came out fo work to a truck with no juice. My father showed me where to wire it to in the fuse box, so it ain't Bubba'ed no more.

I'm sure there are others, and will be more.

-bZj