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Just be aware , that is a pretty badly rusted area . The rust has grown between the bottom plate ( tab) and the vertical piece of the pillar . Its so bad its braking the tab away from the pillar . There are 4 tabs bent upwards off the bottom plate (its got the hole punched in it for the body mount ) . Usually this is a sign of a leaking windshield (its steel surround ) and the water is running down inside the pillar . So just be careful and maybe inspect the surround a bit better before you buy , all is repairable or manageable , to a degree ! If your not fussed about the rust , maybe it can be used to get the car a bit cheaper , maybe the owner doesn't even know how bad it is !
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thats nothing...ask a guy from a rust state. all you have to do to treat that is wash it down with Phospor on a brush or Naval Gelly. Bad rust ahs big bubbles and it comes apart in big chunks...I doubt any of that would even move without beating the hell out of it with a steel brush....
One of these days I'm going to take my borescope usb camera and point it up to see what it looks like up above this area.
Has somebody done that? To eyeball the condition going up from this location?
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Okay this is rust and how to spot it
this is a gap where the bumper is supposed to be touching the headlight.
the frame has rusted a little and to get rid of the offending rust the trucks immune system is shedding the offending area
here you can see where the tiney bit of rust on the truck frame and plow frame cause the immune system to start fighting those areas by just abandoning them.
and here you can see that the end with the bumper on it just wasnt willing to let go of the bumper so it had to go as well. The truck may still be drivable but the plow wont lift off the ground because the frame and bumper are trying to become one with the ground at the some time...
okay this is rust...IF your corvette looks like this, then you may want to consider a different avenue to take....that little surface rust on the 74 is so pitiful minuscule on the rust scale thatt it can be taken care of in a weekend. Yes the water got there by running down the inside of the A pillar. Yes the A pillar could look like that. Is it an issue? no, not at all. Did the T tops leak, yes, they ALL do, but there are other avenues for water to get down there as it happens to convertibles as well. If yo udo get it and you pull the bolts to get all the areas treated then you can replace those dried out rubber bushings as well. If you noticed you can still see the stock green primer as well
Buy the car if you like brown cars... that color is a bigger issue than any rust that car has
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noticed you are in Florida...only issue you may have is any flood damage if it got salt water in it if thats a possibility...drain all the fluids to see if they are white at all, if not you got a winner. Depending on how much of a restoration you are doing will depend on what you are willing to spend If you lift the body I would dip the frame, blast it and get it powder coated. Like it was mentioned just in front of the rear tires is another bad rust spot as well as just below the windshiled, you can see the area if you open the doors
02-01-2024, 03:26 AM
