Yes , as the title suggests what is the dodgiest bodge you have ever performed on a car to keep it on the road that little bit longer? and yes for those that have seen the ABC series of the same name we are aware that you can use a tree limb tied in with fencing wire thru the floorplan of an EH holden when the crossmember collapses but let's keep it realistic..

I'm sure this will pale in significance to what others can offer up but here goes -
Had my rear quarter window of my camira smashed in by some nocturnal species a few days before going on a trip down south.. not wanting to eat into the entertainment budget and paying pretty much what I'd bought the car for , I had to fashion a quick fix. So necessity being the mother of invention I knew I had a metre of perspex handy, which I cut to a quickly traced template on cardboard. after some adjustment with an anglegrinder and eventually finding the bolt to remove the inner frame it was in, and notwithstanding it being the only non-tinted sidewindow and the non-glasslike scratches caused during installation - who would have known? so much so that it was forgotten until long after I had sold the car..

me and the boys have had and done sum bodges like the HQ ute with plywood camber shims or the auto 76 corolla with passenger operated shoelace accelerator cable thru the window but to seal the deal the driver had the kickdown switch on the accelerator pedal,it lasted about a week.The only datto bodges ive ever had was a hairlacky as a acc return spring one year in the wag and i bought a 1600 once with a left rear quater panel that someone had used cement instead of body filler.

I like that cement idea, no more hi-fill for me!

I'm not too dodgy. Once used chicken wire to attach an exhaust to a trail bike. It still rattled around everywhere, but didn't burn anyone, so it worked.

When my dad was young he had a VW bug. He told me once he used one of those #### off thick rubber bands as a stop gap when the timing belt went. I thought it was BS until a mates timing belt in his bug went. As a quick fix I jokingly said we should try the rubber band trick, and #### me, it worked. The car ran like clockwork.

The most recent was whilst converting my car to lpg, in order to maintain drivability because it was mostly a custom conversion and my daily driver and because the fuel tank had to be removed to fit the lpg tankide on lawnmower fuel tank to my back seat and decured it with the rhr seat belt. I drove it like this for about 2 months until I had it to the point that i could pull the petrol carb setup off and fit the lpg manifold!

But years ago I had an old HG Premier and I was fitting a pair of torana bucket seats when I got a call from a mate to go get some 'hot up gear' for the beast. So without further ado as I was in a hurry, none of the bolt holes matched up so I fitted one bolt and for security I jammed a Clublock against the rear of the seat to hold it in position then drove it from Essendon to Dandenong and back, then around for a month before I decided I didn't like the seats and fitted some other buckets properly. I also never in about 9 months of owning that car had the steering wheel bolted on so I had the anti theft device of removing the steering wheel and putting it in the boot.

We used to own a Mazda 1000 bakkie, which was retro fitted with an unopened A14 engine. At some point the rear welsh plug rusted through, and there was no time to remove the engine and replace it. We poured a packet of curry powder down the radiator to seal the hole. Curry powder will apparently only cook and cure when it comes into contact with air, so it'll clog around the hole and seal it. Worked like a charm, and we used this same remedy probably 3-4 times over a period of many months, until the time came to rebuild the engine. We would know when to add curry powder when you could smell the curry inside the cabin, which meant there was another hole that needed pluging. The welsh plug disintegrated into a lump of rust and curry powder when we took it out. For the ramainder of the time we owned that bakkie, you could smell curry whenever you checked the water levels...

i picked up a car once and it had no drivers seat but i was too cheap to get it towed so i used an egg crate to sit on it wasnt easy cos it was one heavy duty clutch. drove about 30 ks thru town

few yrs ago i was working in a panel shop and a van rolled in it was unlike anythin i had seen b4 it had just been dont by the cops for having a rust hole in the side of it the size of a beach ball he had covered the hole with newspaperand wire on the inside. . thing is if u looked at it from the outside u couldnt realy notice it was a wicked dogy job lol

I haven't had any real dodgies on Datsuns, asides from an old Bluey with a cracked head that I kept going with iron tight for 3 years, but my old man and I did the cheapest engine rebuild ever on my first car - a 1966 RT40 Toyota Corona!

We had three old stuffed 2R engines lying around (which I had blown up earlier - don't believe the myth about Toyota reliability!!) and I burned a hole in the top of a piston on a 4th one. As I was strapped for cash, we pulled the engines apart and grabbed the best looking bits from each one. We even reused the meatiest looking head gasket by just putting a bit of copper spray on it. All up cost for rebuild was $3 worth of copper spray. Then engine lasted another 6 months

Not my work, but I used to work as a miner on a Station in the outback, and one day one of the work utes got a flat. One of the young Geo girls swapped on the spare tyre but didn't do the wheel nuts back up properly, only finger tight. about 6 hours later 2 vacation work uni students were driving the ute off to do some field work and the wheel came off as they were driving down the road.

After calming them down we called the mechanic and he drove out, swore his head off at us for being stupid (I had nothing to do with it ), dragged his mig over and welded the wheel onto what was left of the stub axle...

That's pretty dodgy, would hate to be the person that tries to change that wheel next.

At christmas time last year I had to recall my knowledge learned from watching and episode of bush mechanics a few years ago.
A flat rear tyre on my XR200 trail bike was not gonna stop us getting back.
A tyre stuffed with coconut tree leaves works just as well as the bush mechanics long grass trick.
Rode for over 1 hour carrying 2 of us across Calicoan Island to Guiuan in The Philippines till we reached a vulcanizer to fix it up.