Well Murphy had his way with me. I was planning to get the car into the garage as fast as possible. No reason to contribute to more rust. So I had to clear up floor space to move the car in. The soonest the new cabinets could be installed was yesterday.
Sure enough with the new storage space; I was able to move that car into the garage today…. of course it rained yesterday. Hard.
I live in So-Cal so we only get like five day of rain a year. And Murphy insisted the car get rained on one last time.
Well if that’s the only time Murphy shows up, I’ll count my blessings.
Now the silver lining:
Since the car got soaked I took some time today to further disassemble the interior and pull more carpet and linings out. And it really does appear that the rust is only on the passenger side engine compartment.
Oh, I found out what the technical term for the ‘shape’ of the trunk hood is; it’s “sprung”. There are two coasters the are suppose to provide a three point hinge. But the restrainers can rust away (or just get broken off). But that’s where the trunk rust I have came from.
No rust in the drivers side (just rain water) controls.
Front trunk has a light dusting of it; but most of the grim brushed clean.
Here's the rust that I'll have to fix. But it will really keep me busy.
Glamor shot with the hood off. Nice! BTW the spot of rust on the finder is really where the radio antenna used to be. That will be filled in; I'll be going iPod or maybe satellite radio.
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