Fueled by Caffeine
Fueled by Caffeine MegaDork
7/18/20 7:22 p.m.

stumbled across this ad... Looks good until you see the pass side and the bed side bondo is crazy.. thats gotta be a 1/4 inch thick..

 

shame

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/dak/cto/d/hastings-1976-ford-150/7161835753.html

tuna55
tuna55 MegaDork
7/18/20 7:24 p.m.

That's how mine was. 

Fueled by Caffeine
Fueled by Caffeine MegaDork
7/18/20 7:28 p.m.

In reply to tuna55 :

 

thats terrible..

 

Appleseed
Appleseed MegaDork
7/18/20 7:29 p.m.

1/4 inch? Amateurs. That's 2 iniches shy of professional grade. 

Duke
Duke MegaDork
7/19/20 11:33 a.m.

My dad had a couple self-serve car washes in the '70s and '80s that we would maintain a couple times a week. They were in heavily lower-income parts of town. I have some stories. 
 

My favorite was during the height of the vanning craze.  Guy comes in with a custom van he just bought, airbrushed mural, whole works.  He starts ripping armfuls of shag carpet out of the inside. Tips my dad $20 to use the dumpster. Then he takes out the biggest rubber mallet I've ever seen and starts whaling away inside the back. 
 

The whole outside starts falling off, murals and all, in sheets. Turns out that steel side vans were commanding such a premium cost that the PO customizer had  taken a window van and just mudded the whole side smooth until you couldn't see the windows any more. Painted over the outside and shagged over the inside. 
 

jgrewe
jgrewe Reader
7/19/20 8:39 p.m.

That is still just for contour.  Where is the chicken wire or newspaper holding the bondo in the rust hole?

Grizz
Grizz UberDork
7/19/20 9:10 p.m.

Pretty sure that's what most of my rocker was on the dakota. Came outside one day and it was berkeleying gone. PA inspection passer, duct tape and bondo.

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