That is a very solid tub. Fix the pinholes, prevent further rust growth, and drive and enjoy. I will be down your way this summer. I may decide to drive mine.
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Yeah, but yours is the coolest one there and I guarantee gets the most looks by kids and their parents...
If you have been daily driving that for nine years
Continue what you are doing
My 40s are my escape from making the cars I work on look like no one has fixed it I'm that po guy
Haha
Unfortunately rust never sleeps and rust in the seams it almost impossible to to kill all you can do is try and stop the air from getting to it
I was really impressed by krown rust proofing
It wicked into all the seam pinch welds etc
My only bitch was having to wipe it off paint for days as it wept out of seams
Continue what you are doing
My 40s are my escape from making the cars I work on look like no one has fixed it I'm that po guy
Haha
Unfortunately rust never sleeps and rust in the seams it almost impossible to to kill all you can do is try and stop the air from getting to it
I was really impressed by krown rust proofing
It wicked into all the seam pinch welds etc
My only bitch was having to wipe it off paint for days as it wept out of seams
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Hey everyone, thanks for the encouraging words. It's given me a second wind on the old rig. It might help if it didn't live outside year round! Anyway, I'm gonna look in to getting the hood, doors, quarter and floor pans patched and see if there's any $$ left over. I must say, I do enjoy the shabby looks "patina" and wish I could just freeze it like this.
It is unfortunate that the rust will just continue eating away and u can't freeze it. While your tub isn't terrible, as mentioned, it has a lot of rust in seams underneath, and likely in channels. But your tub is not cut up or modified, which means it's worth a fair bit. U could buy a cool cruisers new 3/4 tub for 6200. Plus like 500ish for shipping. Sell your old 3/4 tub for 2000 ish. Bringing u to 4700$ and u would have a fresh tub with zero rust anywhere that has been built with modern zinc treated metal and will need almost zero body work b4 paint. It would take u a day to install with a buddy. At the same time u could clean up a lot of the frame b4 u install the tub. U could paint the interior and underneath of the tub yourself as that doesn't need to be perfect or shoot it with Raptor bedliner. Then have the outside professionally shot. In the end u may spend 1 to 2k more. But the end product will last a very long time. Just crunching numbers real quick to give u some ideas.
