[doorgunner69]

Guy I worked with (not a ghetto type) decades ago had the first ghetto repair I ever saw:

Trunk lock busted, so he just drilled and bolted on a gate hasp with padlock.

[PowderMonkey]

Ha! Got that beat. I repaired the headlights on my daughter’s car using nothing but a rolled up leather glove, one tennis ball, and an old doggy toy. No duct tape. Should have seen the look on the mechanic’s face during state inspection.

[peeps36]

A guy I know fixed the rusted out frame of his pick up truck by welding a pole from a street sign to the frame. It was one of the thick flat poles with the round holes in it. He drove it for over a year like that.

[Buckeye McFrog]

When I was a kid and the wheel wells of my ‘71 Ventura rusted through, I mixed up a batch of paper mache and dumped it down either fender from inside the trunk. After it hardened I then hit the outside with some spray undercoating.

I took it for my Pennsylvania State Inspection and sat there smiling as about a dozen mechanics all gathered around, poking at my wheel wells. They could not figure out what I had done. It passed though.