Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Whart have you bodged up today

I saw a car like that one night a few years back. I was playing tennis and there was a colossal bang and all the lights in the area went out. We went out into the street to see what had happened and we found the back half of a Holden wrapped around an electric light pole and the perfect front half another 50 metres down the road. Halfway between the two was the unconscious driver. The car had come over a rise and broke apart at the bodged and filled front door sills and tack welded front floors. Fortunately for the driver it was in the days before compulsory seat belts and he went gripping to the steering wheel and the front half of the car which continued straight down the road. If he had been strapped in to the driver's seat they would have had a nasty mess to clean off the light pole, as it was he had no more than a severe concussion and some scrapes where he had been deposited on the roadway.

And people questioned the need for MOTs, when they were introduced.
Do any modern cars rust the way tcars made in the 50s, 60s and 70s rusted?
One that springs to mind is the Mercedes E Class, W210 built from 1996 to 2003 and now invisible.
They have disappeared from the roads in the UK because they rusted like a Fiat of the 70s.
I know Mercedes UK were buying them up and scrapping them, because they "were an embarrassment", to quote the local MB dealer here.

PeterJ referring to the pic of the polished MGB I posted earlier in this thread and below it the pic after the "repaired" sill had been peeled back to expose the horrors below, that car had an MOT at the time, though an impending MOT test was the motivation to have a closer look... As A kid I watched a neighbour bolt in a nice bit of hardwood to reinforce the chassis of his very old Rover 14, and with his pal they attempted to sew in a patch repair to the sidewall of one of it`s tyres, no real worries it would only be used as a spare on their holiday trip with the whole family up to Dornoch..!!!! Yeah I suspect the MOT saved a lot of folk from themselves.

In my usual wandering frame of mind, I had this morning interrupted the Covid thread with a tale of looking for grease in Pisa, it was a language kinda thing... but rather than totally mess up that serious thread with chat about the Italian word for grease perhaps being Grasso, I thought to mess this one up this afternoon instead...(-:

I have noted pics of some very tidy, clean and well equipped, garages and workshops along with novel ideas such as Peter`s combination vice mounting system, which Colin also seemed to applaud. I ever expected that some day I might find the time to create a really tidy workspace, I have seen quite a few, but my excuse was that I was ever too busy working to tidy things up....sigh!

Like most folk I found the restriction of my garage dimensions frustrating ever promising myself that in time I would build a larger garage more suited to my tendency to perhaps collect scrap in varying degrees and bring it back to usable condition... Yeah, well by the time I got round to finishing the build of the garage and rebuild of much else, it seems I perhaps ran out of enthusiasm in varying degrees...it`s perhaps justifiable as an age kinda thing...sigh..?

Trying desperately to create some sort of relevance for this ramble, I return to Grasso, I went out to the garage to grab a pic of my tin of Italian grease, and amongst the containers of various greases, I also found one of Castrolease..!! Antique road show beckons, for a valuation...(-: I have had the tin of Grasso in the garage since 2003, I was surprised to find the Castrolease as I thought as was the habit of industry, that I had partly rationalised the majority of my old stuff, to save others clearing up after me... but habits of a lifetime etc.etc.etc....

As is my nature I decided to take a pic of the Grasso tin, and incorporate the tin of Castrolease in the pic too, then thought about a pic of the area around my vice to compare with that of PeterJ, thinking that there just may be some interest in seeing a bit of this bodgers nest..... Shameful or what, even cobwebs in evidence, for those with photographic interests I used f22 in the hope of catching more detail....

As a form of excuse, at one time I was to be able to lay my hand on anything in my old garage and in jig time, these days I find it hard to find that tool I put down but a few moments ago, spending the next hour or so looking for it, when working on the old Morgan... Such is life...Shrug..!

If there is any interest in a wider view of the detritus in the area around my Workbench, just SHOUT, perhaps pics of garage/workshop interiors of TM types and the jun..err..treasures held held within could be of interest, or perhaps not..?

Anyone notice the only sticker loosing it's bond (and some look seriously original) is the Mog one

Had a great run out today (to work) and decided to investigate poor idle further. Pre-bodge held up well, but 18yr old plastic seems to fracture when pressure applied from clamps, so Re-bodge required. BTW, would anybody pay £900+ for LR original?

Cable ties - wonderful things. Always have some in your toolkit/spares box when travelling

I successfully bodged up an extension to my garage shelf, I might even at another piece under the clock

You can never have too many shelves Craig!

Cable ties have got me back running in the past.
Wonderful emergency bodge it to get home items.

Wow, Craig— De Walt - very fancy!!