The Pizza Dude Car |
An Engineering Marvel in the Parking lot of MPC |
the problem
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| it was late in the fall, and probably a rainy evening, when our hero here got himself into a bit of an accident. i found this gem in the employee parking area of the memphis pizza cafe (mpc) lot. it is in our estimation, that our young pizza creating engineer hero was a victim of a "t-bone" style crash with a tank some time ago. | ||||||
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| after probably pricing the fix job @ several locations and realizing that the expense of cosmetically returning the vehicle to its original shape would be unreasonable, the dude decided to just fix the vehicle himself using materials he could find at the home depot just down the street. | ||||||
a sense of urgency is added to this equation as the cold / wet winter months begin to creep in and bare their wrath to all those whom dare travel in what is now an open air vehicle. |
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| so, with this in mind the first step was probably to replace the passenger side windows. with the bent window frames to work with, getting a piece of real glass to fit would be a task. however, resisting the temptation to use a "hefty" trash bag, dude settled on the less translucent miracle known plexi-glass. not only is plexi-glass more sturdy than a "hefty" it's more malleable than glass and can be bent to fit the now contorted window frames. | ||||||
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| however, even with the windows now fixed - there was still the matter of taking care of that titanic sized gash on the starboard side of the hull. | |||||||||
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| while not as visually pleasing as bondo, a functionality "stress test" (consisting of me poking at the material with my finger) concluded that the "great stuff" is more than up to the task. it stops the cold drafts, is non-flamable, and disproves the theory that "great stuff" is designed for stationary objects only. |
"not just for home use anymore" |
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| one more look at this master "piece". |
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