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I went out this afternoon and drug the parts pig up next to the shop in reach of my air compressor hose. Just for fun I vot out my Ingersol rand needle descaler and started blasting at the areas where I thought rust may be hiding.
I guessed right. Every place I thought I'd find rust, was indeed rusted right through.
Quarter pannels, gone, so are the rockers. Every door has skin cancer in the bottom.
Windshield supports are rotten on top and bottom. The door henge supports for the front doors are completely rotten. Floor is rusted in all of the typical locations.
It's bad folks. The person who did it used bondo for some of it, but also window screen, newspaper, pop rivets, concrete, and all sorts of other debris as "filler"
The roof may blow off in the next north wind. Gravity is the only force keeping it attached at this point.
So I'm probably not restoring the parts pig afterall.
Knowing is better than guessing.
Now I have the knowledge. This truck probably should get cut to pieces and scrapped, once I'm done having my way with it.
I guessed right. Every place I thought I'd find rust, was indeed rusted right through.
Quarter pannels, gone, so are the rockers. Every door has skin cancer in the bottom.
Windshield supports are rotten on top and bottom. The door henge supports for the front doors are completely rotten. Floor is rusted in all of the typical locations.
It's bad folks. The person who did it used bondo for some of it, but also window screen, newspaper, pop rivets, concrete, and all sorts of other debris as "filler"
The roof may blow off in the next north wind. Gravity is the only force keeping it attached at this point.
So I'm probably not restoring the parts pig afterall.
Knowing is better than guessing.
Now I have the knowledge. This truck probably should get cut to pieces and scrapped, once I'm done having my way with it.