Fellow SOLs
I guess it's my turn for my favorite bodge... While in high
school I was the proud owner of a Fiat 1100D sedan. While the
car was parked in the lot of the hobby shop where I worked
the front end got mooshed by an unknown assailant. The poor
beast was driveable but bodywork up front was D.O.A. A friend
knew where another 1100 was abandoned in the back yard of his
neighbor. We could have purchased the whole car for $100. But
N-O-O-O! We were gonna fix my car! We prevailed with the owner
to part with all the bodywork in front of the firewall which
we hacked off witha saber saw (the "Pros from Dover"). We then
taught ourselves to gas weld as we welded the "new" front end
to my "butchered" car. We then slathered bondo over the whole
mess. I contiued to drive the Fiat for another 6 months until
I joined the Air Force, and sold the car to a friend (who knew
the story). He repainted the car bright red and drove for 3 more
years, and sold it again. After that I lost track of the beast.
Terry Anne,
Thanks, for one of the best descriptions about driving an LBC.
People don't seem to realize that we love our LBCs not so much
in spite of their flaws, but more often because of them.
I'm not sure who said a sports car is something one makes sac-
rifices to own.
I'll just bodge along now...
Greg (I'm much better, now) Petrolati
--
"It's not a leak.... It's a british flow-through lubrication
system..."
gpetrola@firefly.prairienet.org
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