On the buses (pea)
Rewind some years to just before the turn of the century. Picture, if you will, a large dormobile bus of the type commonly used to ferry patients to and from hospital day clinics etc but now in the hands of a pub and offered as something of a 'beer bus' to return drunken fools to their homes or nearest fly tip after kicking out time. Despite the high spec of this beast of burden (including a fully functional flashing amber rooftop light) it was not subjected to the highest standards of servicing or care. It came to pass that one of the windows came off second best in a minor siege situation involving a visiting English rugby team (another QOTW if the right topic ever comes up) and thus needed replacing. Being some 1.5 m sq of glass this proved prohibitively pricey so the landlord engaged the services of a couple of reliable and trustworthy regulars (me and my mate Rab) to 'find some way to patch it up'.

Add a piece of perspex badly cut to measure roughly 1.5 m x 1 m (unlike the hole which turned out to be about two centimetres bigger in each direction), two long strips of two by four attached to the exterior of the vehicle and the perspex by a plethora of wood screws and you might have something that would be classed as roadworthy...in Kazakhstan.

On the upside, although it flexed quite badly both at speed and whenever some sozzled goon leant on it the icy gusts of wind that whistled unrelentingly through the cabin served to sober up many of the passengers during the winter months and it had only cost us about £15 quid in parts.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 17 Nov 2011, 16:29, 4 replies)

I've clicked 'I like this'
But what I really mean is 'the thought of this scares the living shit out of me'.
(SimianKid internet faffer, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 16:50, closed)

We were young and fearless...
Thinking back it scares me quite a lot too. At the time I even bus surfed it at forty miles an hour through country lanes.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 17 Nov 2011, 22:27, closed)

I find wood sadly underused in car repairs
Well, in cars full stop. We need more of this:

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 16:58, closed)

/\ needs more traficators/\

( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 21:24, closed)