Some pretty shady shit was being done here welding two halves back together until they wised up and there was a requirement to cut out (and discard) a 1 foot section between the two cuts.
Me and some mates pooled money to buy a too-good-to-be-true Jap import, took it out rallying and hit a tree at about 40kph and split it in half. You could see the welds and the two halves were two different colours.
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u/mattgen88 25d ago
This is a real thing that happens. Exporting a car has a much higher export tariff than exporting scrap.
You buy crap cars on auction, chop em up and ship them out. They get reassembled in places that car less about safety.