Stupid Things I have seen in race cars (not always at race tracks)

I need to point out that although the issue was in a car belonging to the Bownes unit, it wasn't actually his bit of "fabrication".

Bob had acquired an old Spitfire production race car that had been sitting in a barn for a Very Long Time. He called me up to come over and inspect it. When I popped open the trunk to check out the fuel cell, I immediately called bob over and pointed out that while the fuel cell was fastened to the trunk floor with sheet metal screws, they weren't necessarily what was going to fail first because the trunk floor was fastened to the rest of the car with sheet metal screws.