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The panno has cancer. Everywhere. And I'm wondering what to do with it with rego a couple of months away. I've spent countless hours and dollars on this thing, if I sold it I'd be lucky to get back a tenth of what I've spent, and I'm not enough of a prick to rip someone off by selling them a rustbucket.
It's everywhere, doors are shot, upper tailgate has it in the bottom corners, the gutters have bubbles everywhere, under the windscreen is ugly (and i hate to think what's under that), where the windsreen surround bolts in up drivers side is more rust than steel, the bottom of the front guards are full of it, the drivers floor is full of holes, and all down the sides at the bottom is bubbling.
I reckon I can hide it and bog the worst bits to get it through rego, but it'll come back, it always does. When do you decide that your pride and joy has had it? When do you cut your losses?
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Find a good body and swap your mechanicals over?
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That would be ideal, but having the time, space, and tools to do it is a massive issue. I know there's plenty of people in this situation, I wonder how far people have let it go?
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If it was a HK/T 1837 Monaro or an XU-1, well it's worth fixing. But by the sounds of it you will spend a lot of time and/or $ fixing it, with no guarantee it won't happen again. Plus rust repairs (or bogging) a vehicle as bad as you state can readily be |
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I had the same situation a few years back with a HQ sedan GTS replica I drove this car for 15 years and made numerous repairs along the way including rebuilt 253 GTS options mags paint even LPG, the rust started comming back ,the front end needed doing ag
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My first car was like this. It even had rust in the firewall! I had to say goodbye to it, it was too far gone. I kept the tags, too! I suppose nothing is unrepairable, but there would have been a huge dollar factor involved. I would have had to replace th
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Hmm I'm in nearly exactly the same shoes, my first project car a genuine Sandman. Tags list it as 308, 4 speed manual (I'm a young bloke, exactly what I want!)...
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