Yesterday I spent the day at a friends’ place who was holding a ‘dodgy day’. It’s basically an excuse for friends to get together and help each other with dodgy backyard repairs over some drinks and a bbq. We even threw in a top down cruise in the evening through some back roads and let me tell you it was damn cold!
One of the last repairs was a Garage Vary lip that had seen better days. It was passed down from one friend to another who attempted to repair it with zip ties and some glue for good measure. There we were, half a dozen man-children supervising the one guy working. He was proud of his accomplishment. The lip actually looked good and would hang proudly from the front of his car. Sadly, someone suggested we ought to paint it and in the true tradition of backyard repairs we went to work without much thought or planning.
A spray on clear coat was applied with little fuss. Waiting for paint to dry is for wimps so the first coat of red paint went on a minute later. Well, I’m not sure you would call it paint. It was line marker used on roads by your local council. The can was old and dripped on the paint more than it sprayed it on. Another colour, yellow, was applied for extra dodgy effect. The pièce de résistance was black wrinkle paint, again only a minute later. The end result was the epitome of dodgy repairs and looked like leprosy had taken to the lip.
All the zip tie repairs reminded me of a Youtube video I saw a while ago. There is no line marker paint here and nothing really dodgy, just a cool video of some zip tie repairs so enjoy.