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I thought I had seen it all when someone rebuilt all four of their wheel cylinders and installed all the cups in backwards making the pedal kinda squishy......but today I found a engine cutting out at high speed caused by the fuel pump rod being put in upside down causing the pointy end of the rod to wear a hole in the PLASTIC pump lever.....sigh......Burrhead, your turn......lol
Yancey
When you think you seen it all it, it gets worse. Nothing surprises me any more. I just ordered some fuel pumps. Made in China but at least they have metal actuating levers.
How about a lag bolt stuffed in the oil pressure switch hole because it was stripped out and driven that way for years. It goes on and on right Yancey? Or the lady with our rebuilt engine who comes in years later with over 10K on it with no maintenance what so ever not even an oil change and wants a freebie fix it.
How long did it take you to figure this one out?
How about a self tapping screw instead of an exhaust stud? Unfortunately it's my car. Found it when replacing the muffler.
jim
Ooh, I can play this game 
How about baling wire used for a throttle cable in the "daily driver" I bought once? Or a rear axle nut welded to the stub axle because "I couldn't get the hole lined up right." Or silicone behind the crank pulley because "it was leaking..."
How long to figure it out? Well I had changed the carb because it was total CRAP, I had checked fuel flow from the inlet line and flow was good, what fooled me was the pump looked pretty new, so I put a nice new blue coil on it and took it down the road, high rpm in fourth, sput sput sput........felt JUST like fuel starvation, back off a little would run fine for a while....so i figured what the hell its GOTTA be the pump, and thats when I found it....I HAVE found SOME after market pump blocks that were too thin at the base causing excessive fuel pressure because of the resulting excessive rod extension so I always mike any new fuel pump blocks. Some day I will tell you guys about the Autozone starter that cranked the engine over backwards.....
Yancey
I have a good one that happened to me and my car. I was pulling a hill in third gear when BANG? I slow down put the bug in neutral to coast awhile. Nothing odd happening. Gen and oil lite off. So back in gear I go figuring I just kicked up a rock. But I had a gut feeling something was going on. I pulled over and shut off the bug but the gen didn't shut off WTF? it was motored up! I threw the belt and in the process for some reason it made the gen motor up so according to my light it was charging the system. I pulled the wire off the gen put on my spare belt and down the road we went no harm done. Gen charging like it should. Never in all my years had I seen anything like that!
I pulled a engine out of a bus to find that the last engine rebuilder had installed the lower air baffles on the top instead of the bottom of the cylinders where they belong.
No wonder it was overheating
hank
I had a newly aquired '64 bug that a PO had welded the muffler to the heater boxes. I did tell the next owner about that.
David
I was at the point of lifting the body off of the chassis on my 65' Bug Vert, when I noticed it would'nt break loose...the body was WELDED TO THE CHASSIS! The PO did not install the reinforcement rails during the crappy restoration! So thats how to get around it, huh?? Lots of fun!~~ Todd VW
installed the lower air baffles on the top hank
I had a 36 HP like this. Amazing what abuse these things take and keep going. Seen quite a few mufflers and heater boxes welded together.They were just $50 cars so you couldn't spend to much money on them 
Being around VW's for this long most the stuff I've seen is way back in the memory bank and takes time to purge it to the forefront again. CRS
412 engine that broke a valve off at the stem. the valve flipped over and stuck the stem into the piston in such a way that the car still ran. The valve was going back into the seat altho upside down. This car was driven into the shop that way from the interstate.
Spark plugs set to the ignition point gap spec...
An oil cap held in place by steel wire, and $2 trailer lights for front and rear turn signals. I believe Yancey had the pleasure to work on this one about 12 years ago.
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