Body filler abuse, I think we have a record!

now THAT is a good bit o' bondo!

 

found this lump of plod in the escort holding the accelerater to the floor by the power of gravity!!

 

They tell me that some States are thinking of introducing the Death Penalty for such Bondo crimes.
I just dont get the logic of some of these guys.

New business opportunity to start a home delivery Bondo supply similar to the concrete deliveries and then they can trowel it on.

What losers!

 

No pics of it, but in '88 I stripped a straight-looking '53 Ford 2drSed for a decent paint job of Ford Torch Red since the vomitaceous Seafoam Green repaint on it when I bought it was checking a bit, expecially on the passenger quarter panel.

Turns out the paint was hiding a major bondo sin. The car had been skidded sideways into what must have been a telephone pole or some such. The body shop beat down the up-dent at the top of the quarter panel, which had been crushed in about 5"-6". Then built up and hand formed perhaps 25 layers of bondo, top to bottom and front to back of the whole panel, without any pulling out of the dent whatsoever. Heck of it was, an inexpert car buyer (me holds up hand) couldn't tell since they'd shaped it really well and also put cardboard inner panel liners on both sides in the trunk to hide the big dent on the passenger side. In a sick kind of way, they'd done a very expert job in making a totally screwed up body job look good. Unsound, but it LOOKED good.

We wound up having to cut out and replace every bit of the panel from behind the rear door to the rear bumper, top to bottom. So my simple 5 day strip-and-repaint turned into a major 5 month rebuild project that my father-in-law is still pissed off about having gotten himself into. Oops.

Yeah, I've learned a lot working on that heap. Particularly, not to believe a single thing any seller says about their car until I confirm it by personal upclose and detailed exam.

 

You are... da Winna!!! You win the bond-horror-story contest hands down. The rest of us should take our piddly bondo horror stories back home and hide them away out of respect for this most singular abortion of a bondo-wagon.

Don't care who you are, that there's funny!!!

 

Painted it with Fish oil and it passed inspection, eh? If you'd bring ME a car to inspect that smells like p*ssy... I'd pass it for you, too.

 

I worked for a company here in Wisconsin (Von Gennadi Design group) and we would take brand new ROLLS ROYCES, $300,000 for one, and turn them into limos and convertables. The roofs had more than two gallons of filler PER SEAM (two seams) to make up for the rediculous metal work (not me!). The company went belly up and pissed off a lot of really rich people. Mark Gerrish if you are reading this, you should be ashamed of yourself (but I know that's not possible).

 

Whats wrong with a little bondo?

 

How's about this? My brother came back on leave from the Navy in 1959. He had saved some money, and had enough to buy a car to take back to Texas from Minneapolis (that in itself should tell you something). Anyway he bought a real nice 1954 two door from a lot on Lake street (where all of the sleazes operated in those days). Less than a week after he bought it, rust started peeking through the rockers. We investigated, and found they had backed up the bondo in the rocker panels with steel wool. Talk about a short term solution. Car did look nice when he picked it up though.

 

Here is a 71 Cuda I had a little while back. I knew when I bought it that the quarter had some bondo in it, but when I got it home and started diging in I was SHOCKED at what I found! The "body man" had taken a used quarter panel and trimed it, slathered the back of it like glue with bondo and pressed it on like an iron on patch! Then he smoothed out the high spots with another 5 gallons of bondo! The sick part was that the quarter was still saveable under the panel even though he had beaten it down with a hamer to make room for the new patch! If he had not beat it in with a hammer it looked like an easy fix. Go figure!

You can see the patch I pulled off laying on the floor.

 

bought a mid 70s van for work - thought it was like a surfer van , you know -no windows , wood panel inside - slamed the side door and a sheet of bondo fell off the window area 1 and 1/8 thick the size of the side window - bondo right over the glass, both doors - never seen anything like it - guess I should have noticed the passenger side was lower than the driver side - jaxx

 

I thought my neighbours piece of shit 'fast 'n' furious' ride was bad...

filler all over the 'custom' hood about and inch thick, not even smoothed down so it looks like the icing on a christmas cake...then blown over!

The aesthetic highlight has got to be were he's smeered muck over his windscreen washer jets... so now he has 5" of clear cappillary tubing up through drilled holes, flapping about in front of the screen

genius

 

I knew a guy who fixed his rusty door bottoms and bottom door skins by filling the door with concrete from the inside. Eventually one door fell off....wonder why.

 

I bought a 65 chev truck off e bay a few years ago..It was painted white with barn paint,so you don't get to see what it "really" looks like..
Flew out to Colorado and picked it up,(they said it was drivable). Met the seller and looked it over and realized,YEP, it has bondo..
Drove it back to Detroit.thru Canada Customs,All was well..
It had holes in the floor,that's fine..no problem.Back drivers side was caved in a little,still no problem...
The drivers side fender didn't look "just" right..so I decided to hit it with a 5" sander..The bottom of the fender disappeared in a pile of dust..went around the other side ,and slowly watched it disappear also.

It has so much bondo,that I had to move it outside and share the dust with the neighbours..LOL.The ground around this thing was white like snow..

So, if anyone in Denver is looking for their old white 65 chevy long box,283 ,4 speed ,it's sitting in bare metal in my shop..
yes, eventually,if you keep sanding, you will find some metal..LOL

1939fiat..(rick)