Ow, my back!

[Eagle Kammback]

Also known as, Living in the Rust Belt?

[Scott Liggett]

Re: Ow, my back!

He should feel lucky it happened there and not doing 70 mph down the freeway.

[JOES66FURY]

Re: Ow, my back!

I had something like that happen at the garage I worked at in HS....was an old caddy, maybe a 70 or 71....we put it on the lift for the state inspection and it bowed in the middle...the frame was shot...not even the local frame god we called "the Smithy" (this guy was abso-freakin-lutly amazing with steel and a torch) could save it....the old lady was in tears. she was always dressed like she was poor, the car looked like crap...she always put 2 or 3 dollars in the tank.....3 days later she brought in a brand new Lincoln....and put 3 dollars in the tank!

[DanStokes]

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During a break in my Gov't career I worked for a friend who specialized in foreign car repair. It was common (like one a month) to put a VW Rabbit up on the hoist and go back in the office to tell the owner "you don't have a car anymore". They came apart right at the base of the A-pillar.

Dan

[squirrel]

Re: Ow, my back!

Toyopet pickups are known to have frame rust issues.....but sheesh, that's wild

[88 Dippy]

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thats what killed are 91 tempo was working on it at school we could not put it on a hoist. the hoist would rise but the car would not. put it on the alignment rack and well i drove it home and parted it out.

we bought that car in 1990 we loved that car the 2.3 (non-ponto engine) was reliable and tourqy car drove like a 6 cylander

[Thumpin455]

Re: Ow, my back!

Doesnt look that bad from here, Im pretty sure I could fix it.

[88 Dippy]

Re: Ow, my back!

you probably could :D

[Barry Donovan]

Re: Ow, my back!

During a break in my Gov't career I worked for a friend who specialized in foreign car repair. It was common (like one a month) to put a VW Rabbit up on the hoist and go back in the office to tell the owner "you don't have a car anymore". They came apart right at the base of the A-pillar.

Dan

that truck is so maine. ???
the nissans did it, the chevy luvs, s10s pretended to have a little more (it is a good thing) and my brothers 3/4 ton... the frame dangles obvious on the big trucks.. simply make a decision beforehand about a lift.

the rabbit is like the dodge omnis, nissan sentras, and a bizarre poison on the tiny ea81 subaru hatchbacks ... a-pillar magical disappearing act. there is many others with the design, like all of them. :



I had an 87 subaru make all kinds of noise going up on a lift.. no body work done, about 18 at the time..as it turns out, the moron was riding the sharp edge of a rocker panel instead of the jacking point.. and it still lifted....little tanker in comparison to alot of similar rusty j-tinners. not all is lost.

[studemax]

Re: Ow, my back!

Ow. That hadda hurt.

[IRONHEAD]

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toyota quality

[SuperBuickGuy]

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the bendpak lived up to its name

[IRONHEAD]

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OH
WHAT ,A
FEELING FELLING FELLING

[66Fury3]

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I had bought a 1965 Impala in Ft. Lauderdale in 1975, it was a Michigan car and the frame was like swiss cheese... when we started to lift the car it looked like an old horse with a bowed back.... LOL

[pdub]

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The Rust Belt Syndrome is something that none of us in the South can even nearly identify with. When it snows once every three years a coupla inches? It paralyzes the region for a week.

Salt? Southern road crews are only now discovering it, but there's so little need for it... All the snow plows are somewhere else, north of here.

But after hooking up with Sue Unit (she's from Pittsburgh) I got a look at it firsthand. Her dad had an S-10 pickup with 60K miles on it, and you could see through it when he finally got rid of it. The fenders were rotted off. You could stand on either side of that little truck and see next Thursday straight through it.

No, that was new to me. Totally foreign.