Classic car bodges

[itiejim]

Years ago I got my old Triumph Toledo 13 miles home after the throttle cable broke by attaching my tie to the carb linkage and operating it out of the side window.

[itiejim]

Years ago I got my old Triumph Toledo 10 miles home after the throttle cable broke by attaching my tie to the carb linkage and operating it out of the side window.

[dartissimus]

Allan L said:

JeffreyB said:

That's not a bodge - the oil catch tank is a perfect example of recycling and providing a perfectly acceptable engineering solution at the same time. You young shavers don't know what a bodge is. How about a length of 3x2 timber to replace the rotten chassis on a 1953 Sunbeam Alpine.

Quite so, and the catch tank even has its capacity printed on so the scrutineer doesn't have to guess.
I remember someone using the nice big screenwash bottle as a catchtank but it made cleaning the windscreen impossible for months afterwards.

dartissimus said:

works a treat

Even as one who had four of 'em I can't work out what's going on!

The cork is a replacement for the bulkhead grommet which had perished
A regular grommet won't do because the fibre glass body is too thick for a normal one designed for thin sheet metal.
More rain came in through there than anywhere else.
No more wet legs and a buoyancy enhancement as well.

[grumpy52]

String attached to the wiper blades for the passenger to operate because the motor was knackered.
Strapped my fishing headtorch on top of the headlamp of my motorbike when the wiring failed .

[Rangeroverover]

When I was young and potless, I had a BMW 2002, £300:00 the throttle pedal, as you put your foot down would pull a metal rod downwards, when the floor was so rusty it couldn't act as a fulcrum for the floor mounted pedal the solution was a shoelace tied to the pullrod with the other end in a bowline through two holes in the floor, it worked perfectly for six months

[R8Steve]

brrapp said:

Whipped off the wheel and used two sets of Mole Grips as a handlebar to get me home.

That would have made navigating roundabouts interesting!

[anothernameitist]

itiejim said:

Years ago I got my old Triumph Toledo 13 miles home after the throttle cable broke by attaching my tie to the carb linkage and operating it out of the side window.

Did the same with a Lada, but used a rope.

Drove it 70 miles on the motorway, we swapped drivers as our hand were getting ripped.

Happy days when you could come up with that type of solution.

[Gunk]

In the early 80's when a 10 year Mini was ready for scrapping. I bought a 1972 Mini 850 with 6 months tax and MOT for £50. Although it went and stopped, It was completely rotten, the previous MOT must have been bent. The drivers footwell was an opened out Castrol GTX tin pop-riveted to the floor and covered in underseal. The A panels were both mesh and thick filler. The only rust free panel was the roof!

Happy days!