63 Country Squire

What do you guys think?

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/eat/cto/2839121136.html

 

Patinamobile

CLR it. Just about all of that surface rust will come off with CLR and a fine scotch pad. Look it up online. I've seen some amazing results.

 

Provided the mice didn't eat the wireing!

 

Mike,
I think this car is great and that Firenza is terrible. Happy now?

Oh, and it'd take a little more convincing for me on the whole "this is not a rusty car" statement in his ad. But other than that it's great.

 

Mikie, add some wide azz tires and a hoodscoop with side pipes and it might not look too bad !:banana:





Just kiddin!

 

It's possibly just "sunburned?"

 

I suppose, but it sure looks like the roof, hood, and fender tops might be pitted. Also I'm not sure what is going on with the tail gate, but it looks like the bottom edge just above the outer wood trim is rusted through? Like I said it would take a little more convincing for me that it is a clean rust free car.

 

Well yes, but depending on how far it's gone wou could end up with body panels no thicker than paper, and this one makes me think that....but I could be wrong.

Yesterday I did some shop house cleaning, moved 2 67 Cougar hoods. 1st one felt like moving a hood, the second came from a car as Poo'tinaed as this one. The car I scraped years ago was very close to this rust/pitted IMO, not patina. The underside of the hood (framing) is why I kept it but there is nothing left of the skin metal. It's all there with no rust through but it's less than half of the metal thickness, it would be like picking up and comparing...I caried 2 tires too, i caried one

It may not be the case with this car, but.....

 

Yeah, I was just re examining the tailgate in the pic too, it does look like rust has gotten hold of it on lower edges.

 

I've seen late model cars here in Florida with the paint all messed up or even peeling off from sitting under trees and from the sun.
If they were sanded and repainted I figure they'd look nice again. Depends on how much it would cost to get it and how much work you are willing to do on many of them.
Surface rust is no real problem. It's that sneaky stuff under vinyl roofs and trim that costs, among the usual rust out areas.

 

Cat, re-read my post Surface rust can be a big problem.

 

I agree, surface rust is usually rust that has already begun to penitrait the metal. But I once bought a Model T Ford with no paint. It had set out 40+ years in Lincoln, Nebraska and gotten sandblasted by nature. I sanded it the best I could and used the original industrial Rustolium on it as a base. The car is still lookin good in a museum in Florida.