Corrossion Questions
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Corrossion Questions
I'm currently looking for a 68 - 71 BB vert (w/AC). The one I found recently had enough corrossion that I walked away. The frame looked pretty thin at the keyholes with lots of scaling off rust inside the frame side channels. It definitely needed a new front crossmember (the one that bolts on across the front of the frame. The rest of the frame did not look too thin anywhere else. So how bad can a frame get before it's unrepairable? Or, can you still get a new frame and how much?
Also, on the front nose of the car (between the headlights and the hood) you could see little bubbles in the paint where the rivets are bonded, which I read, indicates corrossion on the rivet heads. Is this normal on a lot of cars? And how expensive is this to repair?
The car needed restoration anyway. I'm just trying to get a feel for how common these issues are, and how much they're going to add to the cost. Thanks, drimp66.
Also, on the front nose of the car (between the headlights and the hood) you could see little bubbles in the paint where the rivets are bonded, which I read, indicates corrossion on the rivet heads. Is this normal on a lot of cars? And how expensive is this to repair?
The car needed restoration anyway. I'm just trying to get a feel for how common these issues are, and how much they're going to add to the cost. Thanks, drimp66.
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They rust from the inside out... what you see on the outside is just the tip of the rust-berg.
http://rowleycorvette.com/frames-new.html
http://rowleycorvette.com/frames-new.html
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Does anyone have any insight on the corrosion of the rivet heads, which show up as little bumps in the fiberglass bewtween the headlights and the hood? Difficultly to repair? How common is it?
