Here's just a sampling of the odd/stupid things I've found done by po's. Luckily I have pics of some of this stuff so if I ever kill the PO that did this, I think the judge will understand and let me off.
-Turned the windshield washer reservoir into an overflow for the radiator.
-Spray painted the lens of the light on the end of the console blue. Did the same thing to the door lock knobs and one of the hood turn signal lenses.
-Covered the sunvisor (yes, that's singular), and door panels w/carpet.
-Covered the torn seats with a seat cover. When that one was worn out, he simply put another one on top of it. He took off the chrome trim on the side of the seats off, put the covers on, then put the chrome trim back (on top of the covers). He also wraped the strings for the covers all around the metal bars and track for the seat. I couldn't move the seat and had to cut the seat covers off.
-Somehow managed to lose one of the parking light bezels and about 1/2 of the housing & lens. Cut a round hole in a piece of metal. Screwed metal to front valance and carefully balanced parking light assembly in hole.
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-Attached pass. front window crank handle with a screw that was way too big. The shaft it goes on became badly misshapen and eventually broke off so I'll have to replace the whole regulator.
-The package shelf had rotted due to leaking window seal. Idiot PO aparently wanted to install speakers. The package shelf was too rotted to support them. So, rather than fix the window and replace the shelf, he took the shelf out, added a couple thin pieces of plywood where the speakers are supposed to go, and reinstalled the rotted shelf.
-Didn't check for wires when cutting off the old quarter panel. Managed to cut throught the dome light wire.
-Tried replacing the quarter panel by putting it over what was left of the original panel and screwing it on w/three screws, nothing else (BTW, said quarter panel is for a 68 FB, mine's a 67 coupe).
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-Backed 3/4 inch bondo w/cardboard.
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-Put about 3 layers of carpet (house carpet, not auto carpet) in the passenger compartment and the trunk (I think this was an attempt to fix the holes in the trunk and floor boards).
Pic (That light colored stuff up by the firewall is cut-pile house carpet)
-Mounted a small oil pressure gauge under the dash so that you have to bend over with your head almost resting on the console in order to see it. I replaced the oil pressure sending unit and the original gauge works fine. Basically, rather than replacing a $10 part, this genius installed a $15-$20 aftermarket manual gauge, cut a hole in the firewall to run the tube through, and bought an adaptor so it would fit where sending unit goes. The gauge was also held on w/ a zip tie.
-And I won't even go in to how he tried patching the holes in the floor pan. I'll just say that I'm really tired of drilling out screws.
-Chelle