Rust Buckets

Alfasudcrazy

I was just wondering what was your worst rust bucket. Mine was my two Fiat 128 3p’s that I owned separately during the 80’s. :rolleyes:

I was a dab hand with the Isopon and sanding techniques – until I discovered the magic and tunnel covering ability of fibre glass.

Of course my own stupidity helped Mr rust do its worst to my exotic babies. I used to park it under a tree for ‘shelter’ always wondered what that grease type stuff was coming from – it was that seriously corroding tree sap.

Then I used to wash them every few days using washing up liquid – thinking I was doing a great thing not knowing that washing up liquid is full of salt.

Ah well you learn by your mistakes – except now its not much use as cars these days don’t know what rust means. :rolleyes:

Check out the white 3p on this link – its exactly like my first one

http://www.fiat-abarth.net/fiat128.html

Silvera

I recall, back in the mid-1980's, helping out in the local bodyshop where the owner was converting a 128 3P to rally car spec - welding in roll bars, etc.
Nice motor!

BTW, what's you secret Alfa? How did/can you afford such exotic cars ?

stratos

Rover p6 Dismantled fairly good one in a shed, shelved it for 8 months in the garden. When I came back the tarp' was flat on the ground It had disolved.

Alfasudcrazy

Silvera wrote:

BTW, what's you secret Alfa? How did/can you afford such exotic cars ?

Well I have always spent heavily on nice cars - not drinking or smoking and being young(ish) free and single helps too as is a willingness to work copious amounts of overtime to help feed my habit :rolleyes:

rustheap

i bought a vw beetle for £90 in the 80s ,lack of funds pushed me to find reproduction parts including bucket of plastic padding ,biscuit tins and a rivit gun came in very handy too sold it for £500 though! it was followed by a rear ended cortina ,very comfy were the cortinas.

Interceptor

I went through a phase of buying Minis, doing them up and trying to make money on them, but gave up after realising they were the worst junk on the planet. I am back restoring one and after six months under a cover in a dry and heated garage I went to work on it last week to find all the rust I had primed and treated over the winter has come through!!! I think BL used rust to actually make them.

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Silvera

rustheap wrote:

i bought a vw beetle for £90 in the 80s ,lack of funds pushed me to find reproduction parts including bucket of plastic padding ,biscuit tins and a rivit gun came in very handy too sold it for £500 though!

Ditto!!!
I did exactly the same thing back in the late 80's!
Bought a Beetle for c.£100 and used several odd-coloured s/h wings, along with plenty of fillers and half a caravan's worth of aluminium to cover the rust holes .....looked great when it was resprayed though (yellow).

And amazingly, I saw it speeding along the road to Maynooth about 5 years later! :eek: