My thermostat was in upside down
every spark plud wire was in the wrong spot on the distributor
all emission were taken off
door panels covered in vinyl, but there was glue all over the trim and vinyl was peeling off evrywere

i did some bubba-izing to like:
installed a smog pump in the original location but used and alternator bracket and a homemade sheet metal bracket
i put in 2 cat. converters on an old rusted exhaust so it leaks like a screen door on a submarine

the all time bubba that i had on my 75 was that they took out the blinker flasher and put in this old connector so it looked stock. i was trying to find the connection for like a week. the connector they put in didn't even bypass the flasher. i kept it from turning on so there were no blinkers

 

oh my god, lol, how old is this thread? and how on earth did it get at the top again?

 

my headlights were kept from falling down through the nose by 2 blocks of wood, the fronts of the subframes had broken off

 

Instead of replacing the lower window stop on the drivers side, they put a precision cut 2x4 chunk to stop it.

 

i rebuilt the front and rear suspension on my 80 and noticed the rotors were still riveted on. i guess bubba figured 140,000 miles was nothing for rotors. i guess he just changed the pads.

 

Bubba ran heater hose all the way from the front along the frame to the rear then back to fix the overheating problem. For a minute I thought i had rear heat. Oh with pvc fitting at all the corners.

 

Nice list guys... I have some original ones (and a few not-so original ones too)

1) Bubba insisted on having a sweet stereo system. The speakers are nice but unfortunately Bubba built the rack to hold them out of cheap plywood and krylon, so it looks like crap and splinters all the time... and the system still doesn't even sound good.

2) Bubba used krylon instead of touch up paint or a body person on a few nicks in the paint, so now I have a nice looking car with spots all over it (anyone want a gateway )

3) Bubba put an 82 rear spoiler on a 78. I personally would like the look, if it lined up correctly!!! The front end of the spoiler doesn't even come close to matching up with the back end of the quarter panels.

4) Bubba never liked to change lightbulbs. I probably have like half a dozen burned out bulbs that I need to change.

5) Bubba thought he was kinda handy with electronics. He put power to an inoperative windshield wiper motor, and blew out all his (now my) gauges.

6) Bubba didn't think very highly of emission controls. Guess that's why I don't have any!

7) Best of all... Bubba didn't think highly of seatbelts either! The car originally came with a cream interior, but Bubba thought black would look better. I guess he thought that the cream seatbelts clashed with his fancy new interior (complete with wooden speaker rack). However, he didn't try to find a set of black belts that provided shoulder restraint or change the webbing. I think he just went to corvette central and ordered lap belts, and threw out the oem shoulder belts.

I've only had the car for a few weeks, and am trying my best to get it de-Bubba'd for the spring driving season... wish me luck!

 

We must have shared previous Bubba owners; I found the same thing on my '82 after 134K miles.

Bubba also left his "Roadmaster" boombox speakers in the cargo area. These are the totally bitchin' ones with neon tubes around the woofers. He must've really wanted these: "$39.99" is scrawled in black ink on the side of the box.

 

body filler to fix the holes in bottom of the gas tank
cut the engine wiring harness off at the fuse block
body filler to fill the holes in floor where the battery goes
bungie cords to hold the radiator on
tape holding front bumber on
nails holding front bumper on

 

Damn only thing bubba did on mine is bolt seat rails to floor with nuts from the bottom.

 

the check valve is supposed to be there so your booster will hold vacuum with the engine off. That's a nice feature for when your engine stalls

 

I bought an 80 from a woman that was using it for her clay pots and gardening tools. I gave her the price for a new shed.

 

When Bubba painted my 76----(before I got it of course)----He oversprayed primer over the entire interior of the car
Just a nice light coating over all of the tan carpet.....He must have forgot to put the t-tops on and roll the windows up before he painted

 

Bubba thought he could install a radio:
o He cut the original bezel to slide in the new style radio and
left it hanging without a support

o He powered it with power and a "grounded" wire.
It worked real nice until night time. Then it stopped.

He used a wire hooked to the headlights as a ground.
Headlights on = no ground = no radio...

 

On my '68 Bubba used a peice of plywood to cover up the large hole in the drivers side floorboard!

 

The only real bubba-ism I had found was a small finish nail
that was used as a cotter pin for the internal shifter linkage
on my TH400.

I would be pleased to find the original rotors rivetted on.
If using organic pads and changing them in time, the rotors
should last (almost) forever.

Oh yeah - that was another Buba-ism. He had the front rotor turned.
When re-assembling, he replaced the rivets with 1/4-20 bolts, welded
the nuts after tightening, then ground the bolt heads and shank to be
flush. Bubba does drugs when he can afford them.

 

bubba used oxygen free speaker cable to wire up holley fuel pump
blocks of wood with screws to keep the spare wheel from falling out
garden hose to replace split heater hose
silicon to hold side indicators in place
cable ties and hose clamps to hold exhaust up

 

For non-native USA english speakers reading this thread, I think the word "Bubba" is a Southeastern USA nickname (slang word) that really means "brother." In the traditional Southeastern society, children were given nick names, like June Bug, Junior, Billy Joe, Boy, Bubba (for brother), etc. Once you got one of these nicknames, you were stuck with them for the rest of your life, at least with respect to your family members. Yes...I have Tennessee cousins named Boy, June Bug, Junior.

OK, talking about nicknames, my wife is from Thailand. Everyone in Thailand has a nickname. Even prestigious people in Thailand are often referred to by their very common place nicknames that they received as a child, even though the nicknames that in later life seem a little bit demeaning. Chicken (Gai), insect (Mot), mouse (Noue), Nit (tiny), etc....

Sometimes I wish I had a nickname...sigh...

 

no problem at all, kip. you just spread the word about your new nickname and you'll be "kip" to everyone in no time flat. have a good one, kip.

 

Rear leaf spring broken and mounting tabs broken off rear cover...all WELDED back together in one big glob.
What a mess ($$$)