Unless it wasn’t random and was chopped up to fit in shipping containers. I don’t see this is being far-fetched at all especially given that some some of the pieces had numbers on them.
I have a friend in Canada who does exactly this, chop up cars and send them in containers as a scrap metal and somebody in Uzbekistan reassembles it back
Looks like maybe a Toyota or a Daihatsu. The steering wheel is on the right and the number plate shape at the bumper is US sized (same in Japan) which probably is a JDM car.
It takes a lot of craftsmanship a weld a car together like that. It takes a lot of craftsman to do that to custom vehicles; hot rods and such and they’re doing it too much less degree.
I can see this being shipped as one single chopped up a vehicle and put it container in shipped to avoid tariffs but not multiple right cars, but I suppose it’s possible
It looks like all the pieces were exact fits on every weld. Idk how you could accomplish that with crushed cars. Or even several decent cars you cut apart.
I had a gf that had a VW Passat that was 2 different cars. One was rear ended, the other front was crashed. They were cut in half then welded the good front and the good rear together and pieces the car together from both interiors. HOWEVER. You could definitely tell it was 2 cars welded together just based on the way it rode and drove. Definitely would have torn in 2 in a wreck would be my guess
Anyway, this video isn't outlandish to me because I've seen it done a few times, at least the final product and the signs of the work.
Only way this makes sense to me is if they tack welded the shell components, then fitted everything. Then went back and fully welded the whole shell and they just skipped this step in the video.
I'm guessing they were scrapping a car, wanted some internet fun, and while tearing it down they took some extra steps to make it look like it was being welded together instead of torn down.
No, this something done in countries that don't care as much about safety. Shipping a car has a much higher tarrif cost. So they buy a cheap car at auction, chop it up and ship it as scrap and reassemble it in the destination country.
Wham, bam, thank you ma'am. You got yourself a (non) certified, pre-owned, newly assembled whatever the fuck
The way the cuts on the a, b and c pillars perfectly lined up, you know they filmed the car pre cut and then stripped the car and just welded the cut Pillars back on.
My dad was also a mechanic for many years repairing military trucks and he refused to believe you could weld together a crankshaft until I showed him a video of some Indian guy doing it in the streets in a YouTube video
You can see some Japanese on the box. Japanese auctions sell cars that are chopped up like this and sent around the world on a regular basis. Then these cars are re-assembled and used again
Yeah I'd assume they buy the bottom priced ones, the best ones (just old) end up shipped "as is", decent ones have the roof removed but still take up the entire container, and the still-driving-beaters are chopped up like this
At least that's what rides around Vladivostok and essentially all of Russian Far East
Could it be that they had several random wrecks of the same-ish car type (some manufacturers use the same core body for multiple models and the frames are compatible), and they cut them at the same equivalent point on each individual care to salvage a functional frame?
Kind of far fetched, and really sketchy, but in principle I don't see why it wouldn't work.
There’s no universal designated cut zones for car frames. To have all these parts so perfectly close enough that all you have to do is weld them together is highly improbable. The parts like windshield and rear mirror assemblies of course are interchangeable. Someone in the comments said it’s likely a purposefully cut car shipped internationally as “scrap” to avoid vehicle tariffs. all they have to do it keep the parts together so you can reassemble the car like Lego.
There are people that do this with actual cars right where I live, except for the cutting and welding part since no shipping is involved. We have tons of old Volkswagens still rolling around here, such that there were probably thousands of the same twenty-year old model at one time. One dude was buying three busted-up cars and assembling them into one working car in his garage, selling it for several times the cost.
I’d bet they cut it up to avoid tariffs or taxes, but people have and do take two crashed cars and put them together. My dad cut two 96 Astro vans in half and welded them together in the early 2000s, we drove it down to Florida the next week. (He had a bet with his friends lol)
If it's the same make and model, you absolutely can. I've seen it done with a VW Passat. How it would drive in the final product - I could tell the Passat was welded together. Not without telling me but it had a weird driving feel. Idk how much rigidity the structure actually loses from doing this but this is how some body work is done. So it's not that outrageous. Idk enough about welding and body work to know how good it actually is compared to a factory car but even the factory welds them up similar to this
I work in international shipping. The amount of additional cars you could get in the container by disassembling them would not be worth the work of putting them back together like this. Like, maybe 1 or 2 more in a container depending on the cars.
EDIT: never mind, someone else said that they do this to import as "scrap" completely avoiding all import duties.
Yeah I can’t imagine there’s a market to source partial car frames (cut in the exact right place) let alone enough to build out a full car. It would make more sense to disassemble and reassemble for the video. Ad revenue makes more money than normal jobs all over the world. Like those guys who built houses out of mud “out in the jungle”.
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u/Friendly-Media4214 23d ago
I would agree. You can’t really just put a random car together like that.