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If you have to restore this car, get it professionally stripped......a good sandblast man can do it quickly & inexpensively....&, if done correctly, it won't hurt the body panels.

You've gotta see what you really have.

Strip the tub & get all the paint, bondo & rust off it.
 
Re: I really need to learn rust [electrolytic

Glenn - any comments on the type of battery charger? I've got an ancient 6 volt (somewhere) that you plug in and it pumps out DC current; I've also got an 'intelligent' battery charger. Any idea if the 'intelligent' one is dumb enough to be used for de-rusting?

Thanks,

Doug
 
I went through this myself a few years ago with a bargain
Bugeye that I pulled out of a field. No idea how long
it had been sitting there, but it had every type of
rust imaginable. The first thing I did was to determine
if any of the rust was structural, which would tell
me if I needed to replace panels/brackets/etc, which can
get expensive fast. You'll need to do this and decide
if you want to continue or not depending on what you
find. Surface rust is easy...remove as much as possible
and use a rust converter if there's any left. Rust that
is all the way through (as long as its not structural)
isn't too bad....remove all rust and thin metal, fabricate
a backing plate, then bondo. How far you go with this
process is of course up to you.
 

Put the car on jack stands today and started pulling interior, I couldn't belive what I found.

Previous owner laid three layers of carpet rebond pad on floor then installed plwood attaching to boxed frame. What a water trap, pad was full of water. what were they thinking.


I got all the old pad up and I think floors under seats may be OK with cleaning and chemcial treatment, but forward floors are gone
 
mightymidget said:
...what were they thinking?...
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<span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Simple, they WEREN'T thinking!!!</span></span>

Good thing you found it now rather than later...

-Bear-
 
Amazing some of the things those DPOs do. Daughter bought a VW several years ago. The right rear floor was rusted through (common problem as that's where the battery is). Seller promised to replace it before she took delivery. Unfortunately, I didn't inspect it after. A few weeks later I was working on something in that area and discovered his repair. It was a very thin piece of sheet metal laid over the rusted out floor and stuck down with silicone. A proper rear quarter floor actually costs about $30 and takes about an hour to remove the old one and properly weld in the new.
 
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