Comment by danboarder

This story reminded me of a project my father did with two 1965 Mercedes sedans; one was hit in the front, the other in the back. He cut them both in half where the roof meets the rear window, and welded and reassembled the two good halves into a perfectly functional car that we drove for years. Not the scale of the French submarine project, but the same kind of ingenuity -- it was still a big project to get everything rewired and all put back together, including bodywork and paint!