Someone sent me that one a few years ago.
I wish I had another that came my way.
It was workers in underdeveloped countries, repairing things in precarious ways.
One was a 40 foot ladder standing up in the back of a dump truck, with 2X4s nailed to it to support it like scafolding. They were replacing street lights and I guess that they could have used a bucket truck.
Others were of scafolding that was uneven and propped up on the low end by rickety boxs, broken brick …or what have you.
red green, true duct tape specialist
The cars with parts made from wood are pretty silly looking but, there was a company in Russia
(or maybe it was in East Germany) that made cars that had all the body panels made from wood.
I dont remember the name of the car but from looking at it you couldnt tell that it was made of wood.
The Trabant body panels were made from cotton waste:
I think Red Green started the duct tape for everything craze.
Something I wished I had taken a picture of…
We were in Newfoundland a dozen years ago in a little out port village on the southwest coast when I saw a fellow using a paint roller to give his old panel van a new look. I think he was using Tremclad.
My Dad repainted his '63 Dodge Polara with a paint brush. It actually looked pretty good.
Back in the days of shag carpet one guy here had his Dodge Dart covered in green carpet. It covered all the rust spots but added considerable weight in the rain and snow in the winter. Plus the addtional air drag.
I recently had a neighbor who sanded his grey Corolla with an electric sander and used a paint sprayer to paint his car with Rustoleum. It didn’t look that bad when he was done, but he could have done a better job of masking the trim and windows.
I knocked a hole in the oil pan on my 57 Olds going over rocks in a backwoods road in West Virginia. I stuck bubble gum in the hole, and was able to drive about 30 miles to get it fixed.
Worked with a guy many years ago that did a Krylon rebuild of an older Camaro using rattle cans. Stepped outside to look it over and hey, it looked pretty good! Went around to the other side to see it was completely covered in dandelion seeds that got stuck in the wet paint. Was it windy the day you painted it? Yeah, a little, how’d you know?
This is the same guy that was complaining about engine noise, like lower end knocking. Did you make sure your oil is full? Next day he came in and it was smoking up the lot like a mosquito fogger. He filled it alright, to the top! I’m surprised it ran at all let alone the distance to work…
I once was walking into a restraunt, and some people had just pulled in with steam coming from under the hood. I walked over as the lady opened her hood and saw right away that a heater hose had a little pin hole in it and it was spraying antifreeze on the exhaust manifold. She was all upset that she would have to have the car towed, but I assured her that I could help her out after the car cooled down. After we both ate lunch, I went out, removed the offending hose at the water pump, removed the good hose from the firewall, looped it around and back into the water pump. I had a jug of coolant in the truck and added about a quart to top her off, and she was on her way. She ended up asking for a business card and I got a nice horseshoeing client out of it.
Now the best part of the story.
I stopped into my buddys shop one day and asked him what he was doing. He knew I knew the client and said that he had just now pulled her car in to check the heater because it didn’t blow any hot air. He hadn,t opened the hood yet and I said, “I’ll bet one of the heater hoses is looped around and nothings going to the heatercore”. I didn’t offer that I had done the loop.
He laughed as he opoened the hood, thinking that I was just making up something nutty. He peered into the compartment and had to take a second look. He looked at me in surprize and asked how I knew. I just said it was a wild guess.
He called that night after the lady told him the story, to admit that he thought all day about how in the world I knew what the problem was without seeing under the hood.
This would be a good new topic.
“Your most unusual emergency repair”
But then we may cause more problems.
I could see some poor mechanic, checking blend doors, etc… And not knowing that someone looped that hose under the hood.
@Yosemite, in other words, the woman never took the car into the shop to get a proper fix for the leaking hose, and only took the car to a mechanic when she noticed the heater wasn’t working? SMH 
Yep, Whitey, you guessed it.
I had done the quick repair about three months prior. It was starting to get a little chilly out and I guess she tried to use the heater…finally!!!
Thankfully she takes better care of her horses, so I make some good money in that respect.
I am thinking about doing a Redneck auto repair. Yesterday, the gas door to our 2011 Toyota Sienna would not open. What was particularly frustrating was that I had pulled into a station where the gasoline price was $3.78 a gallon. All the other stations had gone to $3.95 to $3.99 a gallon.
My first thought was to drive home, use the hole saw that chucks into my drill that I used to drill round holes and call it repaired. However, my wife thought we ought to take the car to the dealer. She was along, so we rushed out to the dealer. The service writer and a technician managed to open the door. They found a way so that if one person pulls the gas door release cable and the other person pushes on the door at the right place, the door will open. After 10 minutes at the dealer, I then tore back to the gas station–the price was still $3.78 a gallon. I had just filled the tank and hung the hose back up when the price jumped to $3.95 a gallon.
Unfortunately, it takes two people to open the gas door to fill the gas tank.
I was still ready to attempt my Redneck repair, but my wife called the Toyota dealer and made an appointment–she says that the repair will be my Father’s day present from our son.
@Triedaq, this might be something you can fix without doing a redneck repair. Fuel doors these days are so flimsy that the part that catches might have just gotten slightly bent, and if that’s the case, you might be able to bend it back into shape. I know that happened to me with my Civic.
@Whitey–Thanks for the suggestion. The dealer’s technician tried bending the catch, and it helped a little bit. However, there seems to be something more binding in the release. We made an appointment Monday afternoon with the dealer to have it fixed.
Back some 35 yers ago, I had a Chevy Nova with the 6 cyl. -250 C. I. motor. It was a hot summer day in OK. I drove to my cousin’s farm about 5 mikes from the nearset phone. I was driving down a red dirt and sand country road and I hit a small water puddle under a shade tree at about 30 mph. My car stuttered , but kept running . I figured the dist. cap was wet as well as the wires. I got to his farm to go fishing, but before I left the car, I popped the hood open to find that the cold water had shattered a cheap, very plastic dist. cap. Most of the pieces were there. I epoxied the cap back together leaving 2 pretty big holes in the side of the cap where I had lost them before getting to the farm. I went fishing for about 3 or 4 hours. The cap would set in place and would let the car start but the spark was grounding out thru the holes onto the motor. I used a roll of black electrical tape to patch the holes. The battery was now too weak to start the car. I pushed the car to the the of the hill with just just enough battery left to make the dash lights glow. I pushed the car until it rolled down the hill. I popped the clutch and the beast ran decently. I drove some 15 miles to El Reno Ok and found another cap that I could afford at a store , there. Changed the cap in the parking lot. I prayed that the battery would start car. It started then I went home, hot dirty and relieved that I could get there.
That one with the screwdriver in the ignition isn’t a redneck auto repair. It’s a car thief.
A cousin here in Mexico uses that exact set up on his 1976 Chev. pickup. He has replaced the mechanism about once a year, and finally said to heck with it.
Also, the pickup propped up at an angle with beams? That window in the background has “protection” exactly like my windows have. I suppose it’s possible to have such a thing in the US, but I am betting it is in Mexico. I am talking about the decorative metal over the window to keep crooks from crawling in after breaking the window.
Irlandes,
That window in the background has "protection" exactly like my windows have. I suppose it's possible to have such a thing in the US,It is not only possible, and in most major cities world wide it is a necessity, window bars are available everywhere. Almost every ground level and many even 2nd floor windows in SE Washington DC has/ needs this protection.
