Coffins on wheels

voojeq

http://autobotanik.livejournal.com/16696.html

ShadowHearth

That's sort of stuff is popular in Russia and eastern Europe.
I watched a lot of documentaries on cars in Russia ( Russian TV ).

Just a few examples;

A fella bought car and after it crashed ( small inpact )he really was surprised: the support parts were just made out of wood inside of the body.

Another story is when fella took his car for some repairs in usual work shop and was arrested after few hours. Why? The garage workers found that part of car was cut out and was made as a secret stach for drugs. They found kilos of heroin. Cars was bough on auction. It's very popular to buy USA cars and shipped them in to eastern Europe and Russia as those work out a lot cheaper. So that car was confiscated by usa police, they did not found all the drugs in that car and just sold in auction.

Then another one was where girl borrowed a lot of money from loan sharks to buy BMW x5 ( super popular in Russia ), after few days it all gone crazy with electrics. Turns out it was ex flooded car from Europe and just touched up for fast resale.

I could give a few more stories of motoring out there, trust me, ireland is heaven compared to that place. Here you have just a few chancers.

andyseadog

i appreciate just how dangerous that is, and the fact someone essentially made a "how to" guide is sickening at the cheek of him.

but visually (and i emphasise visually) to say he chopped two cars in half and stuck them back together he done a pretty tidy looking job and a certain degree of skill must be involved.

hard to get your head around too how that was economically viable to do that to a hyundai elantra.

voojeq

well if you go back to the main page you'll see the rest of the cars he did, takes some time and experience all right, but still it's bloody dangerous and very irresponsible to sell these coffins

haminka

well, he says he sold it to a friend of his. hm ...

dr.fuzzenstein

haminka wrote: »

well, he says he sold it to a friend of his. hm ...

With friends like him...

mad muffin

"she's like new boss, not a dent or a scratch on her":pac:

no1beemerfan

I will never go to Russia! After seeing that and after watching their driving on youtube I'm surprised the population is so high.

dgt

Impressive job but just downright dangerous.

This used to be commonplace in the 70s here y'know....

Shutlines seem a bit off (too tight at the back, too big at the front)

carbon nanotube

well not long ago, maybe 5 years ago a lad up the road from me got a volvo from the uk i think.

all the bells and whistles, it was only a few months later he found out if was bits of volvos welded together.

crazy

stimpson

In the 70's??? The 90's too.

A cousin of mine bought a cut and shut as his first car. Only found out when he went to take a corner and half the car wanted to keep going straight.

Still, it was a good learning experience - he went into used car sales.

Anan1

no1beemerfan wrote: »

I will never go to Russia! After seeing that and after watching their driving on youtube I'm surprised the population is so high.

The Russians survived Hitler & Stalin, I don't think they're going to be laid low by a couple of cut & shuts.;)

Plug

A mate of mine had a cut and shut Escort and when the car was on a lift the doors could not open:D

kirving

I'd never do it, and both shells proablaby have more structural damage to them, but.....In theory, a good weld should be stronger than the original metal.

Bigus

That used to be quite common here in the 80's , saw it done myself by a guy who's full time job was this for a well known city c enter breaker.

Even saw one pass an aa inspection.

Worst I ever saw him do was an xr3 i and all that was left of the original car was the front end bonnet and wings engine and box to the bulkhead and one sill attached ,rest was a three door base model. He used to drill out the seem welds and always joined at the seems to avoid detection.

That's why there is cat b now that has to be broken.