Worst fixes you have seen on a charger?

[h76]

Kind of wondering what are some of the ridiculous and terrible attempts at repairs you have seen on some chargers?
I know have had a couple guys tell me they have seen frame rails that are like paper meche(fiberglass&paint). I saw one charger that somebody riveted old discarded license plates over holes on fenders and deck lid. I even saw one years ago that tried to shoehorn  a 3rd gen charger grille on a 68? Let's just say it was a hack job! I'm sure you guys out there have seen some interesting and just plain weird fixes.

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

Lots of bad repairs of rear window channels

[Silver R/T]

I know a guy who put 1/4 panel on with what looked like oxy/acy welder. Besides that he wanted to replace trunk and trunk extension AFTER he had put on 1/4s

[HANDM]

Carpet padding stuffed into the holes in the lower quarters covered in a half inch of bondo.....

Golf ball sized chunks of bondo in the rear window corners....

Lets just say when the dust started flying, it didn't stop till there was a thick coating on everything in the shop

[Cooter]

20" wheels on a 2nd Gen Charger.

[Brock Lee]

After seeing several TV show General Lees, I could write a book. I seen one that had a quarter tack welded and bondoed over another quarter.

[DC_1]

20" wheels on a 2nd Gen Charger.

....I don't see the problem 

[Ghoste]

I once saw a sheet of cardboard about 7 inches by 15 inches bondoed into the top of a fender to cover rust.  They didn't even sand or paint the bondo.

[BigBlackDodge]

I once saw a sheet of cardboard about 7 inches by 15 inches bondoed into the top of a fender to cover rust.  They didn't even sand or paint the bondo.

Well at least I used 'structural' cardboard!....and I was to tired to sand and paint after the bondo work.



BBD

[lasvegas69charg]

When my car was in the body shop, the body shop called me down to look at something he found on the car.  When I got there he showed me that someone stuck a rock the size of a golf ball stuffed in a hole of rust covered with bondo. I couldn't, believeit because my dad was the only one to ever work on the car....that night I brought the rock over to his house and showed him...he just grinned...

[bill440rt]

When I stripped my '70 I found patches brazed on the car. The fenders were warped so badly from the lousy braze job I had no choice but to replace them.
There was a lower patch in one of the 1/4's that looked like a piece of washboard & bondo'd over, had to be 1-1/2 inches thick of bondo.

Also found a crushed soda can in the right 1/4 on my '69. 

[Indygenerallee]

Mine was virgin, so all I found was rust..... 

[Dino]

Anything from hlpag or whatever they are called now.

I've seen plenty lousy repairs but the worst were not on chargers.  Frame rails repaired with chicken wire and newspapers comes to mind.  Another had the rails filled with expanding foam.  In some places it expanded so much that the rails crumbled so some doofus textured the foam to look like a frame rail.   

The craziest I saw was this old Euro sports car that looked mint on the outside but when I stuck my head in the trunk I could see the inside of the quarters...about half a foot to far inward.  The entire outside was bondo, gallons of it and the weird thing is, it looked great!  Lines were sharp, correct curve to it and all.  Made me wonder, if they could do such a good job shaping bondo, couldn't they put a little more effor in the metal work?  People are strange...   

[Hudson Hornet !]

My Car had sheet metal riveted to the floors and then tarred over, but the bad part was that i found CARDBOARD sandwiched between the metal.  Also, the guy had used plastic butter dish lids cut to make the body plugs on the car.  " I can't believe it's not Butter"!!!!!

[moparguy01]

Not all on chargers, but I've seen rear windows held in with bathroom chalking, entire floors covered with 1/4" of fiberglass resin to seal pinholes everywhere, 2" of body shims aligning a front fender. Man the list goes on and on.

[Dino]

Not all on chargers, but I've seen rear windows held in with bathroom chalking, entire floors covered with 1/4" of fiberglass resin to seal pinholes everywhere, 2" of body shims aligning a front fender. Man the list goes on and on.

Funny you mention the resin.  When I went to look at the car I eventually bought, the po told me his dad had welded a small patch under the rear seat.  Somehow the floor got hit by something and it started to rust.  They did a real nice job welding it and they covered the entire floor in epoxy.  Except for a tiny spot, the size of a quarter, near the gas pedal there's really no rust on those floors to speak of and the epoxy sure does protect that floor!  Great insulator for noise and heat as well I might add.  It's easy enough to remove but I see no reason to do so.

Sometimes it just works out!

[FastbackJon]

I know a guy who put 1/4 panel on with what looked like oxy/acy welder. Besides that he wanted to replace trunk and trunk extension AFTER he had put on 1/4s

I think I might know who you're talking about.

But come on Max, post a picture of what your car's driver's side quarter panel looked like when you bought it....

[c00nhunterjoe]

I could post pictures of my car but you guys would make serious fun of it...... I'm no bodyman, just rying to keep it from rotting away.

[68X426]

Remember this one? Not metal work, but still laughable.

There was an e-bay Charger for sale last year that was posted up here on several threads. Asking big dollars for a car with lots of issues.

It was the bungee cord holding down the battery that everyone had a great time commenting on. The seller was pissed, because he saw nothing wrong with a bungee cord holding down a battery. Wouldn't change it.

[aussiemuscle]

i've done my share of backyard bondo. my charger had so much in it's rear quarter the car had a lean 

[c00nhunterjoe]

I replaced the horrific patches in my 1\4s with real metal but its just as wavy as when I started......lol at least its metal now. The holes had been filled with so much expandafoam that the 1\4 glass didn't roll all the way down..... they smeared newspapers\fiberglass and bondo over that. I swear it was over an inch and a half thick before I hit newspaper. 

Most would call my repairs "halfass" but its better then what I had and the car has no rot holes in it anymore. Its cruisable until I can build a garage for a full resto done properly.

[skip68]

I would have to say Jeff's car with the fiberglass frame rails that BK automotive did.   That's just crazy chit.   

[Ghoste]

The BK car was almost a textbook example of everything bad a "restorer" could possibly do to any car. 

[Dino]

The BK car was almost a textbook example of everything bad a "restorer" could possibly do to any car. 

I must've missed that story, what happened?

[nh_mopar_fan]

The BK car was almost a textbook example of everything bad a "restorer" could possibly do to any car. 

I must've missed that story, what happened?

YGBFSM.

It's the story that will not die.