What is it with some people..

toolmanmike said
He keeps posting and the guys there are piling on telling him what kind of hack repairs he is doing. :lol: He doesn't get it though. He says he has patch panels and a welder but chooses to use chicken wire and bondo. What ever trips your trigger dude.

I don’t know about the welder, but the patch panels were literally in the trunk of that car in one of the pictures in his thread. If he has a welder he’s just completely clueless, he spent more time making that chicken wire abomination than it would have taken to burn the panels in.

DionR said
I wonder if he shares his "methods" if/when he goes to sell the car? Sure hope so.

This. He’s clearly obsessed with raising the resale without spending much money. I totally get being on a budget, but the way he keeps talking about the resale and repeatedly mentioning he's not selling the car tells me that’s exactly what he’s doing. Add that to doing that to multiple cars in a short timeline? He’s slapping lipstick on a pig and doing the minimum mechanical work at the same time. Dudes a flipper, that’s why he comes off like a used car salesman.

Sad part is, he already has the panels. If he has a MIG then it wouldn’t have been any more expensive to weld the panels he already has onto that car. Unless he’s planning on using them for something else or selling the panels themselves. And either of those would probably make him a flipper.

Ad’s gonna say something like “fresh paint, mechanicals gone through, good car for a driver” and then he’s gonna sell his same BS about welding patch panels in being something that only happens on cars that get restorations that cost “tens of thousands of dollars” (if he says anything!). He could easily convince someone without a lot of knowledge in the hobby that his POS is a good start. And then some poor beginner will start their old car journey with a POS that’s gonna be a major problem in a very short time.