Peter Egan, writing about rusted out project cars in the August 2005 issue of
Road & Track:
My first TR-3, for instance, had a recent, sparkling paint job, but a closer
look (just after I got it home) revealed serious problems. The floors -
beneath all that glued-down carpeting - were made of galvanized barn siding
and Pop rivets, and the taillights were screwed through carefully sculpted
mounds of Bondo into wood blocks hidden in the trunk - with actual wood
screws. It was a fairly accurate mockup of a former Triumph.
If this car had been human, people would have been filing past its casket
saying, "My, but don't he look natural!"
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