Lawrie's Collected his Worst Ever Car! A Completely rotten RO80

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Жыл бұрын

Hello Everyone,
This is certainly the most rotten car I've ever come across. When I picked it up, I thought it might well be a Lemon, by I had no idea...
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@patrickl2195 Жыл бұрын

You’re a braver man than I, standing under that NSU!

@eze8970 Жыл бұрын

What I got from this, was Lawrie needs those two old boys to start his red tractor! 😂😂

@QALibrary Жыл бұрын

I am surprised it did not split into 2 or 3 parts while loading it - the only thing holding it together is the roof

@trainswithnickyt Жыл бұрын

"Today, you're looking at this...." meanwhile, I'm ogling the Hudson Hunslet radiator in the background

@noexpensespentstudios Жыл бұрын

It's astonishing that someone went to the trouble of cutting the sheet metal, screwing it in, and undersealing it at all. Even for a quick sale that's too much effort to reasonably put in. Worse still, the rust you can see is never all the rust there is so how that's holding itself in a car shaped shape is incredible. You definitely win, I've never seen anything that bad in person that has also been repaired (and I use that term in the loosest possible sense) that badly.

@CaptainDonut0 Жыл бұрын

The interior seems in decent condition. Sell it and you can pay for the fuel you used up. There has to be a bofin that needs the interior.

@notmuch_23 Жыл бұрын

It's a damn good thing the buyer(s) only wanted the engine! That seems like the

@rudolphbondefangerer5513 Жыл бұрын

That wasn't so bad, after all, he has screwed the tin can material to what was once a car. I bought a car once (VW Beetle) where the tin can material was glued on top of body filler with body filler, and a friend of mine once bought a Ford Fiesta where someone had tried to camouflage brutal rust attacks in the lower body with cardboard, naturally covered with body filler and spray paint. Considering how much work some people put into such imaginative repairs, which you can't get away with anyway, they would have saved a lot by selling the car as it is. Body filler is not cheap.

@mbak7801 Жыл бұрын

In the 1970s I had next to no money but lots of 'plastic padding' and the confidence of immortality only a young man can have. Some of my cars were not a million miles away from this. You can have a suspension kept on by only a single bolt/screw as long as the force of braking pushes the assembly together. Only acceleration could rip it apart and that was not really going to happen. So not that bad after all.

@hawkerhellfire9152 Жыл бұрын

Hudson Hunslet in the Garage? I agree!

@graemew7001 Жыл бұрын

I've seen cars as rotten as that (minus the erm "repairs") when I worked in restoration but those cars were there to salvage the engines, gearboxes and back axles from to be rebuilt and re-used, never to be put on the road. I can't get over what kind of mentality it takes to do this and think it's fine to do, you're not the only one who's scared.

@markwright3161 Жыл бұрын

Always sad to see such a rare car in such bad shape.

@m.geleick3903 Жыл бұрын

I owned about 21 Ro's. Now 4. Only one production year had that foam put in: 1974. But that particular one is at the end of it's being.

@allanblackesq Жыл бұрын

See how much weight the roof will take before the car breaks in two. Yikes, you've found something rustier than the Titanic.

@wicks7581 Жыл бұрын

This video has made me feel slightly better about the beetle I picked up for a project. Cheers!

@pallsmortion4750 Жыл бұрын

He's either brave or stupid to stand under the thing!

@paulhorn2665 Жыл бұрын

"The front suspension was hold together with some rope, thats normally a bad sign.", Yes indeed! 🤣

@asdatesco2594 Жыл бұрын

Take what's left of the body, use the chassis and running gear from a wrecked RX-8, and frankenstein the two together to create a true rotary restomod!

@WH32R Жыл бұрын

I have seen and have admitedly made some sketchy repairs before on my offroad equipment, but I have never seen anything that terrifying (and possibly driven on the road) over here in upper New York!! You're definitely braver than me to stand under that thing!!!