My father fixed VW exhaust pipes with Campbell Soup cans and Wire Hangers..he wasn’t mechanically inclined but he knew his soup:)
Our dad was a great car mechanic...he could fix anything, or make the part himself. Rather than buy new, if he didn’t want to make one, he’d drive 80mi r/t to get one from a junk yard...of course, that was back when gas was only $ .17 gallon. ;D
I love this one: My Dad’s idea of building me a treehouse was wedging a pallet into the crotch of a tree. ;)