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[Varche]

Ziebart. Yes that was the stuff. Still going now. ziebart.com

Entwood's story brought back other memories. Yikes cars were bad when we were young. 

[biggriffin]

All still available, schlitz,tetrolseal,etc,any good automotive paint supplier.
applied using a,schiltz gun, now called stonechip or underbody sealer.
 the old fashion way of using a brush,whilst leaving the tin in a hot water bath,so it's nice n soft,still used by the resto purists

[henryd]

Ziebart. Yes that was the stuff. Still going now. ziebart.com

Entwood's story brought back other memories. Yikes cars were bad when we were young. 

Dinitrol was another,again still going strong

[Webby the Bear]

Entwood. OH. MY. GOD 

[Entwood]

Entwood. OH. MY. GOD 

That's one of the "tamer" stories ... the Mk1 Consol with a hole in the piston .. now that WAS naughty .. but I was short of cash - basic pay 21 Guineas a week, out of which the RAF took most for food and accommodation, and the NAAFI bar took most of the rest - so needs must as they say ... 

[Webby the Bear]

Entwood. OH. MY. GOD 

That's one of the "tamer" stories ... the Mk1 Consol with a hole in the piston .. now that WAS naughty .. but I was short of cash - basic pay 21 Guineas a week, out of which the RAF took most for food and accommodation, and the NAAFI bar took most of the rest - so needs must as they say ... 

A hole in the piston....  Pray tell young sir

[Vamps]

Early 70's ....  Fiat 850 Sports, so full of rot that on doing an emergency stop my heel went through the floor pan .. ... into garage, made a thick papier mache mix and some cardboard, and filled in all the holes, then acquired a couple of catering size beans cans from the mess, which we flattened and attached either side of the cardboard with more papier mache .. allowed to harden for a week then covered inside and out with a thick layer of underseal ... the tin cans were there in case a magnet was used to check the floorpan .... then drove to a mates farm and spent 30 minutes doing doughnuts in the milking yard slurry .... quick rinse of the body but NOT the underside (boy did it stink), left for another week, then drove to a garage and traded it in ..

Black underseal had many uses .......   

It certainly did, all manor of bodges in those day's, chicken wire and newspaper.........

[Jukeboxnut]

I once had a 1957 Vauxhall Victor that I bodged with baked bean tins and pop rivets over virtually all that was left of the floor pan and then disguised it all with a thick coat of the old black bitumen underseal.  Happy carefree days!

[omega3000]

I once had a 1957 Vauxhall Victor that I bodged with baked bean tins and pop rivets over virtually all that was left of the floor pan and then disguised it all with a thick coat of the old black bitumen underseal.  Happy carefree days!

Hope they were Heinz bean tins 

[Andy B]

I once had a 1957 Vauxhall Victor that I bodged with baked bean tins and pop rivets over virtually all that was left of the floor pan and then disguised it all with a thick coat of the old black bitumen underseal.  Happy carefree days!

Hope they were Heinz bean tins 

 

[JDX]

I did something similar about 2 weeks ago  - found a tin of 'Holts' undershield which had been sat around for about 30 years (or so!) and using a stiff  brush painted on the underside of my wife's Micra. The stuff was still as new. I just cannot throw anything away! 

Hi guys.

I just been to the pub with me old man and we got talking about maintenance items that he used to do as a young man that are not done anymore.

He mentioned that he took his car once (a Hillman Avenger he tells me) to his mate who painted a thick tar-like substance on to the underside of his car to protect it. He couldn't remember the name of this stuff.... anyone any idea out of interest what they would have used back in the day?

[2boxerdogs]

My first car in 1971 an Austin A40 , the floor was a Hillman Imp bonnet !!

[Jukeboxnut]

Of course they were Heinz beans, nothing but the best for my old Victor, in fact it still had the original exhaust that exited through the rear bumper (rare even in 1970) and many a repair was carried out using bean tins and jubilee clips.  Eventually the whole lot fell off on the A3 late one night coming back from a party in London and the noise was simply amazing, just like a low flying aircraft!  I managed to crawl back to Bognor virtually deaf dumb and blind without seeing a single police car but leaving a trail of house lights going on in my wake.  A trip to the scrap yard the following day with my father yielded an exhaust system cobbled out of pipes and boxes from a variety of cars for about £1 iirc.  I learnt my craft on that car and still run cars as cheap as possible now.

[tidla]

You can still buy that thick tar stuff , brush on or spray on . Engine oil is good also 

Most omegas down the centre will be good for years to come then.

[omega3000]

You can still buy that thick tar stuff , brush on or spray on . Engine oil is good also 

Most omegas down the centre will be good for years to come then.

I did notice that    Saves waxoiling it