Worst unorthodox repairs

[turbohounds]

As I start pulling apart the cab on my 66, I got to wondering about some of the worst repair ideas people have seen.

In one cab corner, under 1/2" of bondo I found a roofing shingle used to support the mud. On the other side they used a piece of window screen folder over several times to hold the mud in place. Or least try to.



The inner fender braces were rusted away, so the previous owner used a piece of galvanized ducting, to keep it from flapping around. It was mostly just shoved in place.


To keep the fender from coming off, they just welded it to the body. Took me a few minutes of wondering why the fenders wouldn't come off when I unbolted them. The welds you can see are amateur at best - for the fender's they gobbed in wire to fill a 1/2" gap.


Seems anything lying around the house was fair game to use for repairs. So, what have you found?