Can you tell what it is yet?

[andy18s]

Spotted outside the local mot station this weekend

 

 

 

Gotta love a cut and shut,even more so when it's done so well....

[Jazoli]

Wow, that is shocking.

[twosmoke300]

College practice car or a joke surely?

[Felly Magic]

'Kinell fire! Someone drop a skip on it, pronto

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Incredible!

[dave21478]

Many years back I went to look at a 309 GTi that was advertised as having a "small bump" on the rear side panel. When I got there it turned out to be completely smashed in. In the boot was a big bit of jaggy metal which turned out to be the 3/4 panel and c-pillar roughly cut from a scrap car. "Yeah, you just need to weld this on and it will be a really nice car again."

Yeah, no thanks. Bye.

 

Skip forwards about 18 months and I spotted the very same 309 GTi in the local breakers yard with the panel welded on just like that one above, but without the benefit of paint so had rusted to a lovely orange colour all along the join.

[Mr Lobster]

When I worked in the motor trade I remember seeing a Corrado that had similar done. Slightly more effort went into hiding it by smothering buckets and buckets of filler over the back quarters and roof where it was joined. Welding underneath was to a comedy standard and the thing must have been a big, serious accident waiting to happen

[Squire_Dawson]

A Huguenot.

[mercrocker]

Now imagine doing that to a car twice.   A big, f.off big car....That didn't handle very well to begin with.   And charging a shit load of money.   Prom, anyone?  

[Richard]

Quite a few of the taxis I drove were cut and shuts, they didn't seem any the worse for it.

[spike60]

Presumably its had the back corner of the quarter pieced in, not as bad as some I've come across. I've seen a 911 Turbo with everything forward of the bulkhead cut out waiting for the 'new' one in an acquaintances lock up and my 1st car was a 1971 Escort which had a new roof and pillars brazed on. No MIG then!

Doesn't excuse the shit job though.

[HillmanImp]

Bloke I know in Lil'ampton used to do cut'n shuts and was regularly in court for it. He claimed that his ones were strong and not like the crap ones you see in the news. 

 

However on this one, could it just have been panel damge and a crap repair?

[Asimo]

I don't see why a "cut and shut" should necessarily be more of a problem than the sort of heroic weldathon that replaces bran flakes with metal.

 

Good work is good work and half-arsed bodgery isn't.

[Richard]

I can't tell how good the welding is from the picture but I'd prefer a rough job I can see to crap welding hidden under wob.

[Station]

It looks OK apart from the horrible weld and the mismatch on all the edges. It may be OK other than being cosmetically hideous.