RE: My wagon reminded me it's an Ohio car

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

Mark,

The wagon's nothing compared to the 68 4 door! That car needs an entire 
driver's quarter and a lot of work in the wheel well, the trunk floor 
replaced, the tail pan and back of the passenger side quarter (old 
collision damage), rust repair behind the rear passenger door and wheel 
well, work on the rear floors, re-work on the front floors (I'm not happy 
with some work I had which is why I took a body class so I would have no 
one to gripe at but myself), fix an acid hole under the battery tray (and 
replace the battery tray, it has a corresponding hole), and replacement of 
the radiator support (crappy old collision repair). Other than that, it's 
ready for paint!

Right now, I'm trying to figure out how to clean all off the loose rust out 
of the rest of the wheel well (short of cutting it all open) so I can put a 
rust treatment in it (I'm leaning towards Eastwood's Rust Encapsulator).

Matt

At 04:02 PM 11/28/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> Matt, It's good to see that someone else is suffering the same rusted 
> metal projects as my Convertible!!! All in all your quarter does not look 
> much better than what I have to deal with on mine! Of course I have to do 
> both sides! Plus i have some rust infront of the wheels on the quarters. I 
> have a pair of 65 4 door classic quarters to work from. They are in need 
> af very little attention to use on a 4 door, unfortuneatly using them on 
> my convertible won't be quite so easy! If I could just find some way to 
> actually get enough time off in the shop to get something accomplished.
>   I hope at this point that the weeks around Xmas will net me some of 
> that time.
> Since we went on the Cruise last week we won't be doing to much travelling 
> over Xmas and with school out no overtime for at least two whole weeks! I 
> can't wait!!!
>  Oh, Off topic, the cruise went well, I'd hoped to feel al little more 
> relaxed when I got back, but I came down with a cold that won't go away 
> and I'm still tired!  Or more likely should say "burned out" from all the 
> overtime. My boss says there is light at the end of the tunnel for 
> getting some relief from all this overtime, but when I don't know!
>
> Mark Price
> markprice242ATadelphia.net
> Morgantown, WV
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20051121202835.00c5fd38@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:37:58 -0500
> To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: My wagon reminded me it's an Ohio car
>
> I started work on the rusty quarter on my wagon recently. Last Saturday, I
> started a cuttin' and found a lot more rust than expected (well, more than
> I hoped for). You can read about my latest exploits at
> http://www.mattsoldcars.com/RestoreAmerican/wagon_pass_quarter01.shtml.
>
> BTW, I held back some pictures of the rusty metal I removed this time (more
> due to time restraints than any other reason). If there's interest in
> seeing the bad stuff, let me know and I'll get it up on my site.
>
> Matt--
> Mark Price
> markprice242ATadelphia.net
> Morgantown, WV

mhaas@xxxxxxx
Cincinnati, OH
http://www.mattsoldcars.com
1967 Rambler American wagon
1968 Rambler American sedan
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