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Any help on restoration tips ?

So i founded some pictures, what would be the next steps that i gotta do, sand blasting the body to search all the rust?or is there a better method, iv'e heard that the sand blasting method ruins the metal and starts to rust faster.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/103698261@N02/

Looking at those pics, I'd say if you sand blasted it, there might not be alot of car left! It's certainly going to cost you a heck of alot of time, and money to get it into a solid state. I don't mean to put a downer on your project, but sometimes finding a better car at this initial stage will save you alot of heart ache.

What kind of fabrication and welding skills do you have? From the looks of the parts that you can see, then the parts you can't, like the sills, floorpan, chassis legs, and alot of the other structural areas are going to be very crumbly indeed.

As for blasting, if it's done right, it will remove the rust from visible areas, but acid dipping will remove it from all the box sections that blasting can't reach, and without any risk of damaging the metal. SPL here in the UK are do it, but it's not cheap.

I wouldnt blast it I would get it dipped in acid and that way you get it all.

Some people have done restorations with cars that are this far gone. Check out pandemoniums thread in the 4cyl section