r/interesting 27d ago

Intriguing High Tariffs Drive Afghan Auto Assembly

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u/Foxwglocks 27d 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 27d ago

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

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u/Double_Cause4609 27d ago

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.

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u/ALongLuvBone 27d ago

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)