my name's Greg and for a long while I've been happily stranded in a country with plenty of mountains, which considers itself to be the heart of Europe. (Austria) Plenty of mountains leads to a notable need for affordable off-road vehicles as snow overhere during the Winter months is measured in feet not inches. As such, plenty of old (and newer) Lada Nivas and Suzuki SJs in all shapes and forms and now that a significant portion of them have rotted away also a metric ton of Jimnys and the like are present. So what do you do, when there are plenty of good offroad vehicles to choose from? Exactly, you buy an absolute sh*tbox of a 410 and for the very brief period of about 14 months, rebuild the lower ten to twelve inches of the car, so it passes the equivalent of an MOT.
Guess you guys like a bit of visual stimulation, so here goes:
1) right when bought - doesn't look too shabby, eh? (Yeah, I got fooled as well - spotted two or three small holes, nothing a bit of the magic electrical hot glue can't fix, eh?)
To be fair at this point I thought that the bigger issue were the facts that the previous owner had an old dog, which might have been a bit on the "leaky" side and lived on a farm, so everything was really, really full of dirt.
2) You guessed it, it was rotten as all hell. But at least one guy must have been QUITE the plaster (i.e. bondo) artist.
Also I am sure he really loved pastry - a croissant perhaps?
... and perhaps stacking sheet metal.
And more croissant-style, repairs. (That last cut, until I figured out what was going on, ate through angle grinder disks, like the cookie monster goes through the proverbial cookies...)
3) You know what happens then.
4) yes ironically, I had to search my computer for some pictures of the completed Suzuki...
Cheers,
Greg
