I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. August 27, 2009, 04:12:31 PM It's a sad day.My 83 is about to be a parts car. It's a shame too, it runs perfect, doesn't leak a drop of anything, I really trust that car. I drive it everywhere.What happened? Well, when I bought it, was tricked, and I thought it was a nice low miles car with no rust. Well, the miles are accurate as far as I know, but the trick was, it had been painted. it was rusting through fast. I sanded and primered it in preparation to paint it again, and my prep is already rusted back through. That wasn't the kicker though...I had a hitch put on, and my buddy said the underbody is pretty rusty. It wasn't before, I looked when I bought it! ohio... That was a year ago.Lately, my seat developed the fox-lean, and I finally got sick of it. But upon closer examination, the seat is fine. The problem is the entire rear corner mount is gone and the seat is hanging out the bottom of the car!Makes me sick. I swore that this cougar would be a keeper. I swore I'd drive it until it fell apart. It's near falling apart now and it hasn't even hit 100k miles yet!!Just needed to vent. I'm probably gonna keep driving it for now, hopefully my ass doesn't get road-rash soon.CoogarXR Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #1 – August 27, 2009, 04:48:07 PM sounds like its time to ship it to Jerry Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #2 – August 27, 2009, 04:56:44 PM My thoughts exactly Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #3 – August 27, 2009, 04:59:55 PM Call me a 'noob, but who's Jerry? I don't hang around here enough to know first names, lol. Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #4 – August 27, 2009, 06:15:28 PM ic, he's the hero of the rusty world. Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #5 – August 27, 2009, 06:17:28 PM Oh, of course, heh. Duh. Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #6 – August 27, 2009, 09:50:00 PM I know how ya feel man, I had the same poblem with my 20th, I HATED parting it and letting it go. Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #7 – August 27, 2009, 10:27:56 PM That always sucks when you look under your car and see a ton of rust.If you feel it can be saved and you have the skill and ambition....... Well, you know what I would say. LOLI don't think the underside of my car looked this good when I bought it in 89. ;) Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #9 – August 28, 2009, 07:06:04 AM Find a good body to swap your drivetrain in to.That's an easy job. Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #10 – August 28, 2009, 07:53:22 AM Post up some pics if you can. The floorpan for the seat can be patched and welded up pretty easy.Depends on how bad the rest of chassis is, I hate rust. Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #11 – August 28, 2009, 03:41:15 PM ya know, i actually feel for you on that.ive had to pass up on quite a few good running cars because of rust(or more specifcally rot).not that im afraid of it just that i dont have the means to fix it here on the street. only two cars i had had bad rust(my 84 aerobortion vert and my turbo sprint) and it sucks because they ran great and if i had the place to i probly couldve fixed them, i had more than enough time to back then.if what you say about how it runs is true and you have the means try to find a decent body for it. but your in ohio so that might be a stretch.as i see it rust was created by god to taketh away some pretty good running cars :P Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #12 – September 01, 2009, 01:22:45 PM I just had a rear brakeline blow out on me last week. I had my mechanic replace it for me (I hate doing brakelines!). While he had it up on the rack, I was looking at the floorpans, and I might have overreacted. It looks more like a L-shaped crack than a rust hole. It could certainly be fixed, with a welder that I don't have. More about that later... Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #13 – September 14, 2009, 09:41:51 PM Welp, I have a friend who is multi-talented and I asked him if he knows anything about welding. He says that he does, and that I could come over right now!Short story is, there actually was like 5 cracks, but not much rust after all. He welded all of the cracks, now my seat sits straight as a whistle :)Hopefully it lasts a while... Quote Selected
I give up... I can't keep up with the rust. Reply #14 – September 15, 2009, 01:38:33 PM Quote from: CoogarXR;291233Short story is, there actually was like 5 cracks, but not much rust after all. He welded all of the cracks, now my seat sits straight as a whistle :)Hey, that's great news!! Glad to hear your car is back in business. Just keep taking care of it and you'll both be happy. Quote Selected
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