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yeah that's a very good pointAlso finance is easier so fairly new cars that start to rust are less painful to send over the bridge...
yeah that's a very good pointAlso finance is easier so fairly new cars that start to rust are less painful to send over the bridge...
and people used to pop rivet new sills on back thenI remember going to look at a MK 1 Escort that had a 6" square patch from the side of a fridge pop riveted on the front wing!
yeah they would also pop rivet on new outer arches and you always seemed to see a rivet poking through the fillerAnd they would still pass the mot!
That was standard repair on Minis! I knew someone that bought an A35 van off a bodger builder that had tried to carry 15cwt of concrete blocks in it, & pushed the spring hanger & a piece of floor up through. He made a new chassis section & pop riveted it back in place & took it for test. The tester said I can't pass it like that, it's not going to be strong enough. An argument followed on the lines of aircraft are all pop riveted together it's ok. The upshot was as far as I can remember the tester & owner agreed to differ, but the tester put some tacks on it to make sure & passed it. It was a bit more lax then, this would have been about 1968/69.and people used to pop rivet new sills on back then