list your most moronic thing you've seen done to a car

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I know a guy that had a 351Cleveland, C4, & 9” out of a Fairlane in a 70 Cuda!
 
Well I have you ALL beat. In 1979 or '80, I was working in the NAS North Island Auto Hobby Shop. This guy, a E-4, was collecting several real nice Mopars, and storing them there. A '70 440 GTX, a 69RR, A 69 Charger with a 440 and Electric windows, And several other cars of note. The GTX was gold, the Charger was white, And all theses cars were clean and very driveable. His Idea was to make a one of a kind never seen before Frankin Car. He used two Aluminum I beams as a frame, then proceeded to CUT up and disassemble all the cars, using "select" parts from each, the GTX rear being used, welded to the RR doors, of course the body lines did not line up. He actually cut up all his cars and tossed them in the trash! We all cried...I sold him the Charger, not knowing WTF he was planning! Well he got this mess together, no floors, just barely running, moving, took it out and got it impounded immediately, never saw that mess again, but he had a pile of parts, Engines and Transmissions, Rear ends.... Got some "Free" parts for my 64 sport fury off that pile.....A real crying shame. AND a 69 RR Convertible was cut up as well...A 70 Challenger 340! That whole car got cut up for one part, not remember what he used. He refused to sell anything...:BangHead::wtf:
 
sccachallenger said:
In the early '90s at the Mopar Nationals a '70 or '71 Challenger with custom paint job and dual Thermoquads, BOLTED to the outside of the hood! Looked wonderful with the hood up, and the TQs were badly corroded from exposure. I pray that someone saved that car from its owner!
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wait up....bolted to the outside? Like a non functional shaker TR setup? I'd escort that guy right out of the show.
 
Being in the auto business most of my life I have seen some doosies. A lower control arm completely attached to the frame with bailing wire only (both bushing studs busted off)

A Cadillac low rider with all 2x4 wood blocks holding it up between the suspension and frame (front and back) and all the springs and shocks gone completely.
We put it on the lift not knowing this yet, and when it came off the ground there must have been 40 blocks fell out.
Being the service manager I called him and told him to come and get it, and he insisted we put all the blocks back so he could drive it.
We used a floor jack on each end to get it out in the parking lot and put all the wood in the trunk.
I told him if it wasn't out of the parking lot by end of business I would have it impounded.

A Dodge slant 6 pickup that came in where they had made a big steel motor mount to stand it up straight, and they brought in it because the column shift linkage didn't work.
 
:rofl: - this is great! The area I live in is a bit on the "artsy-fartsy" side - I've seen a purple and pink house, and one with polka-dots on it too!! But cars.. there have been a few stunners, but the one that really stands out is the little poo-box baby blue Kia with a white plastic trash can cut in half and mounted on the hood like a hood scoop and 3 (yes 3!) "sport" wings, each one different than the next, stacked up on the trunk!! That stupid car was around for 3 or 4 years. :BangHead::BangHead:

I have a buddy who worked at a garage years ago - - a car drives up and the guy driving says he needs help - he thinks he has cracked a wheel. So my buddy checks it out and......


...the plastic simulated wheel cover has a good sized crack from about the center to the edge... (..can you guess what I am about to tell you???) Seems the guy wanted to rotate his own tires and rather than pay someone to do such a simple thing... he was darn well going to do it himself. So he got the front of the car jacked up and figured out which socket he needed.. aaaand.. he put the socket onto the simulated lug on the simulated wheel and twisted... that poor old professor was terrified that his wheel was going to fall off on the way to the garage!
..........ya just can't make this **** up! :steering:
 
ScampMike said:
:rofl: - this is great! The area I live in is a bit on the "artsy-fartsy" side - I've seen a purple and pink house, and one with polka-dots on it too!! But cars.. there have been a few stunners, but the one that really stands out is the little poo-box baby blue Kia with a white plastic trash can cut in half and mounted on the hood like a hood scoop and 3 (yes 3!) "sport" wings, each one different than the next, stacked up on the trunk!! That stupid car was around for 3 or 4 years. :BangHead::BangHead:

I have a buddy who worked at a garage years ago - - a car drives up and the guy driving says he needs help - he thinks he has cracked a wheel. So my buddy checks it out and......


...the plastic simulated wheel cover has a good sized crack from about the center to the edge... (..can you guess what I am about to tell you???) Seems the guy wanted to rotate his own tires and rather than pay someone to do such a simple thing... he was darn well going to do it himself. So he got the front of the car jacked up and figured out which socket he needed.. aaaand.. he put the socket onto the simulated lug on the simulated wheel and twisted... that poor old professor was terrified that his wheel was going to fall off on the way to the garage!
..........ya just can't make this **** up! :steering:
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Hey Mike!
 
pishta said:
wait up....bolted to the outside? Like a non functional shaker TR setup? I'd escort that guy right out of the show.
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Yes the outside of an R/T hood no less, may have had a bondo surround to make it look like it was poking thru the hood. I probably have a pic of it, if I trip over it I'll post it. The sad part about all these mods are the time and money someone spent on them. The '70s custom paint on this car wasn't half bad.
 
I looked at a 64 "K-code" Comet Caliente (K-code was just a 210 HP 289 for Mercs) but it had hi-po 289 badges on it, and it had 'lightweight seats'..LAWN CHAIRS! They were the low ones strapped down to the floors. Upon further inspection, the floors were plywood.
 
sccachallenger said:
In the early '90s at the Mopar Nationals a '70 or '71 Challenger with custom paint job and dual Thermoquads, BOLTED to the outside of the hood! Looked wonderful with the hood up, and the TQs were badly corroded from exposure. I pray that someone saved that car from its owner!
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Ha, I thought there would only be one guy dumb enough to do that. Back in the early seventies a kid in my town talked his mom into buying him a Duster. She didn't want him "hot rodding" so she bought him one with a 225 and 3 spd. He bolted two rochester carbs to the top of the hood and mounted a Weiand scoop on those. Of course he also jacked up the back to put some L60-14s on it, applied various racing stickers to it and hung a single cherry bomb on the exhaust pipe right below the door. He wrecked it within the year.
 
MileHighDart said:
Yep probably was. I haven’t been there in years, I thought it closed.
The car was orange if I remember correctly.
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I have seen that one at Speedway. Back when Bill was alive he pointed it out to me because he knew just how happy I would be to see it :)
 
Mopar Tim said:
LS in a Mopar?
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There was a deaf guy that lived a few doors down from one of my friends.....

Family had money...

He was REALLY fond of yugo's...

All sorts of them laying around the house...

Wings, ground effects, targa tops.....and he also liked limo's, so there was a stretched one as well.
 
Tooljunkie said:

Nuf said....
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Oh my lord. I thought I was going to lose my kidney laughing so hard. I thought they must be going around the block, there can't be so many of these, these things. Thank you TJ for the best laugh of the year!
 
Not the "most" moronic, but obviously there's some sort of issue in doing this. Akin to those that see someone jump off a bridge and think it's a good idea to give it a whirl. Total Chooch.

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does this count?

spotted it last time i was in Chile

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Found this on the end of the cable of my remote mirror this afternoon. Those are sheet metal screws clamped to it.

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