Ken: Do you have any relatives in the US?

Sorry Carl, you've just reached my killfile :(

Nowt personal, but I've killfiled Ken and his socks, now you're the only one I'm still getting "static" from, I'm not interested in Ken or his socks, just cars and stuff :(

WTF is up with all that copper? Looks a right state...

Tony Bond (UncleFista) ( snipped-for-privacy@SPAMgmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

To be fair to Carl, Tony... that link is very entertaining...

I know. I couldn't resist the Ken reference, but that is really not how to restore motors.

Maybe the Ken Reference was a mistake, but I couldn't resist. Having a bit of a dark mood day. Shows how apparently "restored" cars can be a total heap of poop and weird ideas.

How can that much rust not see a torch? Even some bird poop gas weld on a bit of old road sign would have been stronger than pop rivetted copper sheet surely?

Elder ( snipped-for-privacy@bouncing-czechs.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Simple. No MOT-equivalent...

Now go and say several thank-yous to your nearest MOT man.

Oh I've always spent money on getting welding sorted before the MOT. I've even in the past been surprised when what I thought were going to be fails scraped through. So much that I had told my "welder mate" I would be if he wasn't busy, then been surprised that they past.

Shame his workshop burned down taking three local businesses with it. Don't know if he has moved and setup else where or given up. He lost a two post lift, all the general tools he used for the general mechanicing he did, a very big looking Cebora MIG, and very large compressor, or the spraying gear for when he was doing proper rather thank "MOT pass" standard work.

Elder ( snipped-for-privacy@bouncing-czechs.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Yes, but you got it welded because you KNEW that it would need to be done within the next year for the MOT.

Remove the MOT completely, as in the majority of US states, and YOU might still "do it properly", but I'll lay money that you'd be in a minority...

The French still regard pop-rivets as perfectly acceptible structural repairs, too, and view our fondness for welding as just another example of our utter strangeness...

Oh yes. I've spent more on the welding than buying the car sometimes, because mecahnically nothing else needed doing and it just happened to be one week area that was worst than originally thought and needed a second look at.

In Warrington?

Coming from someone who cant even hold down a job as a keyboard monkey, its rather amusing that such a clueless f****it has the audacity to attempt to rip the piss out of others!

Seems like he was another person just like you, who doesnt appear to have been able to do his job!

Yup. MB motorbodies opposite the gym.

Its never worth while patching an old car, as it is always going to need far more welding the next year, unless the work has been done 100% correctly, which 9 times out of ten will cost more than the cars worth!

The cars that are most commonly bodged in this way are VW Beetles, many of which are so rotten they shouldnt really be on the road!

Ken ( snipped-for-privacy@googlemail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

You really truly are a clueless fucknugget.

No someone that actually did car resto work for 12 years, before having to give up for health reasons!

I wonder how long you have been doing this type of work?

Or are you just another f****it who enjoys parting thier arse cheeks, and posting the results here?

Rings bells for you, no doubt, Mr Can't Weld For Toffee.

Fear of being beaten up by dissatisfied customers!!!! Shame about all those court cases you lost isn't it?!

Coming from someone who cant even hold down a job as a back street mig monkey, its rather amusing that such a clueless f****it has the audacity to attempt to rip the piss out of others!