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I got it as a gift for my 16th birthday. We got it from a neighbor for some welding work my dad did. Well, the car looked ok at first, a little rough, but that was expected. It got bad later.
Before it looked too bad.
1. Here from the front. It has some surface rust, but nothing too bad. |
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2. From the rear, this is actually an after shot. |
3. Looks alright, still good. |
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4. Body is pretty straight. |
5. The first sign of doom, some bubbling in the lower rear. |
Here starts some of the badness. I wanted to start to strip some of the paint off in order to get it ready for body work. Well, I ahd never seen bondo before, but that's what I found.
6. I started removing the bondo to find that some holes went all the way through. |
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7. A closer shot. This is just below the rear window, driver's side. |
8. Over on the sal panel just forward of the rear window, driver's side. |
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9. Passenger's side tulip panel where it meets the trunk lid. |
10. Passenger's side, below the rear widnow. You can see a square bit that shows where a square patch was welded on. |
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11. Another shot of that. It's pretty bad. |
12. Some little pinholes on the roof. Looks bad. |
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13. Up close. Hard to believe that someone would fix it so poorly. |
14. I cleared some more back and found more rust and holes. |
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15. It goes a ways. |
16. Rust up into the roof. I guess that shiney bit is the leading line. |
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17. There's even a thin skim on this part. |
18. I could lay my finger down into that groove, and you can see the edge of another bad repair. |
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19. Closer shot of the groove. |
20. Lazy cheap repair only leads to expensive repair later. |
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21. A BIG bad repair panel rear an equally big rust hole. |
22. Very thick bondo, very bad repair. |
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23. More of the same. |
24. Multiple patches under the rear window. Bad news. |
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25. Again, more of the same. |
26. You can't see it, but it looks like corn flakes in that rust hole on the left. |
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27. The roof looks ok, but the drip rail is shot. |
28. Corn flakes on teh driver's sail panel. |
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29. The drip rail is in really bad shape. |
It will take some work, but it will be worth it.
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