Worst Project Disaster ?

[Doc]

what was or has been your worst project disaster ..

 

Ill start :

 

Giving My Dads Capri over to a Professional Garage only for it to be fooked up and i never see it again !

[flyingbanana]

starting to restro and repair my sisters moggy

[mk1mexico]

selling a solid 2 door mk2 escort complete with polished head 205 block and five speed, only for the engine to be banger raced and the shell cut up

[Vista]

Doc, commiserations mate I doubt anyone will black cat you, but mine was a capri story too.

 

My Mk1 GXL had been in a "friends" bodyshop for about 6 months waiting on a promised paint job when said "friend" did a moonlit flit owing a shed load of cash. Receivers came in and claimed all contents as theirs to sell! Me and a bunch of other friends got the shell back but many genuine RS3100 components I'd been collecting were already gone.

[GT_Jim]

a triumph herald my dad bought me wen i was 16, it had a flourescent light fitting as an out rigger its still in my garage i may do it when the tina is done

[RFChris]

Buying a 1972 Beetle that looked reasonably solid for £400. Then also buying a 1973 Bug for spares for £50 only to find that its better than the expensive one.

 

Chris

[Mexico]

getting ready to fit my newly painted rear lights on the 100e then dropping one. grrr happened like 6 days ago

[105Nick]

Most of the escort really, getting it home and realising all that was wrong with it, put it on jacks and the springs popped out the struts which fell out, finsding the engine was held to the bellhousing by 3 bolts and driving around when I realised the seats were'nt bolted in, everything on it was wrong. It has a tandem master cylinder, which no one had any bits for, spent months locating a rebuild kit, and was in the shed with my dad trying to do it when it started losing light, so he took it into the garden and compressed it ... only for it to shoot its internals over the fence. I was not happy

[runty176]

my first escort when i was 16 (whte , tiger striped 4 dr mk2)

just got it back from my mates paintshop and had to weld a plate underneath rear seat . Did it inside the car and welded through the plastic fuel pipe . Lots of flames and three fire extinguiser's later and all the bottom half was toasted .

at least you learn from mistakes !(haven't torched one since , touch wood)

and the car was finished before i passed my test

[Jimsiss]

The mex

 

everything seems to have gone wrong, needed:

 

new sill on driverside

new rear inner wheel arches

new floor pans

new inner sills

lots of rust chopping out and new stuff putting in

both door columns patching up

loads of little patches everywhere

 

then to top it off when I was just starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel I took some paint off the rear column to find that it had a new roof skin that was fillered badly and has surface rust all over it so now the whole car has to go back to bare metal

 

oh and the original engine was sat outside for 20 years so it is full of crap and is rusted to hell

 

so when all of it is done I'll feel sooooooooooooo much better and it WILL be worth it

[escamino]

Took my car to a mate's workshop. When I got it back most of it was missing and when you sat in it you couldn't shut the doors