The 25-year/250,000-mile refresh, UPDATE 5.15.2017: After first 1,000-mile trip Options

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So I've decided to confront a few rust bubbles on my car, before painting it (the car looked great, but I never liked the wavy sides due to poor prep and no blocking).

If you can't stomach this first photo, please don't continue... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

pete

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Crap, I can't size some of the photos down small enough easily. But you guessed it on the sail panel. I'll load what I can now, do the rest later.

This is the left rear corner, has been bothering me for 17 years now (since the car was last painted)! Note the "RUST?" marking. Perhaps I was expecting the Easter Bunny?

pete

[SirAndy]

This is the left rear corner, has been bothering me for 17 years now (since the car was last painted)! Note the "RUST?" marking.

you will have to remove *ALL* of the foam in that cavity! on both sides!

the reason why it's rusted there is that the foam is sealed off but will get brittle after 30 years and soak in water which will have ample time to do it's rusty work.

you'll have to scrape out all the foam on both sides and treat the cavity with metal ready (or similar) and then seal it off with something like por-15 ...

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/stirthepot.gif) Andy

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