Weirdest Thing You've Found On A Car Or Truck

[Henk4Focus]

So what is the weirdest thing you have found on a car or mod done to a car or truck? I took apart some cva's the other night and found machine oil inside the one shock. The really pungent type lubricating oil.

Also saw someone post in the club section today a picture of a Isuzu Mu that had a rollbar installed on the roof.

Would like to hear what weird and sometimes (maybe) wonderful things have been encountered by my fellow TC member.

Cheers

Henk

[53HRA]

Ive had a used car off ebay before and the guy used twisted nails as body clips

[Swarm]

I dont know about weird but ask TA-Mark what he found on his Fox ....Yukky

I brought a Vintage Hotshot of Ebay I got it home and found a 15mm 1:1 car bolt had been used to hold the battery cover on ,I needed a ring spanner to get it off ,When the car was driven it would leave a shower of sparks behind it (Did look good at night though) ,Needless to say I sent the Hotshot back "It just didnt fit the listing description Vintage Hotshot Great condition very collectable" a ring spanner for goodness sake to remove a battery cover, what on earth was the dude thinking or smoking

[Jonny Retro]

I found used engine oil in a set of new alloy shocks I bought on eBay

[dazaa]

I found used engine oil in a set of new alloy shocks I bought on eBay

I found my monster beetle shocks full of grease. After cleaning them up I filled them with 3 in 1 oil, DOH! Now I must get some propper shock oil and rebuild them.

[theRuggedMan]

So what is the weirdest thing you have found on a car or mod done to a car or truck? I took apart some cva's the other night and found machine oil inside the one shock. The really pungent type lubricating oil.

Also saw someone post in the club section today a picture of a Isuzu Mu that had a rollbar installed on the roof.

Would like to hear what weird and sometimes (maybe) wonderful things have been encountered by my fellow TC member.

Cheers

Henk

Back in 1992 i found a Lunch Box with a big piece of metal plate stuck on the front bumper!

Not to bad you might think but this metal plate had five (like on a dice) 7" sharpened screws welded on it!

When i asked the owner why he had done this his reply was "cos it hurts like badword when i ram peoples legs!

I quickly walked away!

[Singapore_959]

Sheepskin wool "seat cover" made and glued into a bruiser's cabin......

so wierd it was somehow too cool for me to have the heart to remove it.

[TA-Mark]

I dont know about weird but ask TA-Mark what he found on his Fox ....Yukky

Ewwy! Dried doggy do-do! And boy did it hit me when I took the Fox out of the parcel. I soaked the parts in Sugar Soap for a week. It looked like they ran it through a big wet chunk, was all in the front suspension and steering and inside the front section of the chassis. Another 'not as described', cost more to repair the Fox than I paid for it. Great runner now and has never let me down.

The Baja Champ I was given had the 2 halves of the chassis held together with 2 lengths of oxy fill wire hitched up like a fence. They'd stripped out all the screws.

[Bluefoot]

My green Porsche 934 (58001) had a small siren glued to the inside of the roof, and the biggest servos I have ever seen - twice the size of a standard servo.

My Hauler (see left) must have come from someone living on a farm because it had cowsht all over the chassis.

[mongoose1983]

Well, I have seen one or two Tamiya Bruiser trucks with rollbars installed behind the white fiber cab. And worst than that, people cutting it off the body, to make them look like Mountaineers. That is hard to understand, cause, if I had a Mountaineer myself, I know I'd be trying to find the Bruiser rear cab. But well... there are other modifications done to Tamiya cars that are really awful. Take the Clod Buster model. All sort of chassis modifications, tubing, etc, etc. Myself, I am not into modifying the original models, but I must admit that trucks like the Toyota High-Lift deserve nothing but being "corrected" by the people out there.

My two cents.

Happy Thursday to Ya'll!

EB

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[TamiyaDan]

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[mb_c11]

@ TamiyaDan

Mine are rather limited:

- wood screws instead of original screws

- electrical tape on very cracked foam tires to keep them together

- rims that had the inside carved out to make 'em fit without hitting the suspension

- an ESC that had the wires cut off so close to the casing that the previous owner did not bother with soldering on new wires properly and just kind of twisted them together and covered them with electrical tape. I had to strip them a lot shorter to solder on new wires, so I was lucky I didn't melt the case while soldering.

- ball diffs with the parts installed in the wrong order

- automotive grease on the hinge screws in in the gear case of a M-chassis.

[TA-Mark]

Paperclips are handy!

Does your large tourer body wobble from side to side on the very long rear body posts when you run it?

Attach a straightened paperclip from the bottom hole of the left body post to the upper most hole still inside the body on the right post and it doesn't wobble anymore. Works well. The body shifting can upset the car's balance when changing direction. I have this mod on all of my tourers with long rear body posts. M04 beetle would have to be the worst I've seen for 'body wobble', very soft long posts.

Some of those backyard 'fixes' are ingenious. Electrical tape 'tyres' are fun for drifting, specially when it's dad's 'free' tape. BTDT.

Live rat is bit of a worry. Says a lot for the guy who packaged it up for shipping.

[Novastar]

Before learning the finer points of painting (ie use Tamiya polycarbonate or dont bother) I painted my Blazing Stars shell with alpine white automotive paint. It was fine until the paint hardened now my buggy has a bad case of dandruff. I have another shell out of my spare kit and I'll be using the right paint this time

[Origineelreclamebord]

Well I haven't had the most odd experiences... But I did once actually receive a tire lot where some of the tires were filled with PUR-Foam as a tire foam. After removing the PUR-Foam the tires were fine, but really, I don't want to know what kind of drive that must have been with the tires as hard as stone

And another strange thing...Not done by an individual but the actual brand we (usually) collect; Why did Tamiya put bushings instead of bearings in those non-rebuildable re-release Dyna Storm motors!?!?