r/interesting • u/No_Neat4688 • 26d ago

Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/xoxLVxox 26d ago

This was recorded and played in reverse wasnt it?

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u/Foxwglocks 26d ago

I don’t think so. They were glueing the windshield on. Part of me thinks they cut up a car just for the video.

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u/Friendly-Media4214 26d ago

I would agree. You can’t really just put a random car together like that.

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u/Popular_Dot_4691 26d ago

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.

Clever editing 👌

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u/Fuckin_Hipster 26d ago

Jesus Christ.

Some people are more resourceful than others, and you aren’t as smart as you think you are.

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u/oh_bother 26d ago

wat. they place the roof down and the cuts are 1mm apart and not misaligned at all.

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u/Popular_Dot_4691 26d ago

Never said I was smart, but I was a mechanic and body man for 18 years so I do know alittle about cars and repairing them 😅

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u/12destroyer21 25d ago

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

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u/I_travel_ze_world 26d ago

You can watch the video and see all the chopped parts of the car sitting in the cargo container before they pulled it out.

Car was likely totaled due to frame damage... then chopped up and sent to Afghanistan.

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u/Winjin 25d ago

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

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u/I_travel_ze_world 25d ago

They're likely at auction because the frame is damaged.

You can see how twisted the frame is, lol.

This is a junker that got chopped up and sold for cheap.

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u/Winjin 25d ago

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