Re: [FWDLK] 57 Plymouth rot issues

["Bill K." <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, so far it's 2-1 in favor of sending this thing to the crusher complete
with the replacement grille, because of a little surface rust and maybe
needing to put another roof on it.  Never mind that there's not another one
this solid within a 300 mile radius of me - I can find another top, but the
rest have no rockers or floors or lower quarters, and even those are damn
hard to find.  Is the paint on the car invisible?  I'm not seeing things
where there's black paint everyone else sees more surface rust?  Surface
rust makes the glass, mechanical, steering, suspension worthless?

I'll take note of the consensus - this car won't get scrapped, but I'll know
if I want to buy a junkyard out what cars to just haul to the crusher to
regain my investment back.  It explains for me now why I think the one yard
even crushed the '57 Dodge convertible a few years ago along with about 2
dozen other forward look cars, as they cleaned out the old stuff.  Kind of
too bad, I'd have saved a top and a fender for this had I known it would be
out here 5 years later.


Sooner or later enough will be gone guys will be grateful to find one in
this shape, no big deal.  Might take 30 years and about 90% of the cars
built to be scrapped first, but hey I can wait.



Bill K.


----- Original Message -----
From: <JLSAVARD@xxxxxxx>
To: <pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] 57 Plymouth rot issues


> In a message dated 10/23/2003 7:42:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> pontiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> There is a second set of the photos up at
> www.angelfire.com/ny5/classicauto/57plymouth.html with a good close up of
> the rusted area.
>
> Opinions?
> Bill, I hate to be blunt, but I agree with "The Clown".  There is so much
> surface rust on every surface that I see, including the frame, that by the
time
> you sanded it off the sheetmetal would be paper thin.  The interior is
> basically shot, and I noticed that the rear bumper is peeling its chrome.
>
> There comes a time to let go.
>
> Sorry, but you asked for opinions.
>
>
> Joe Savard
> Lake Orion, MI
>

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