Restoration

1. Intro Rust is the principal killer of most normal (ie mild steel) bodied cars. Look at most cars stacked up in a scrapyard and they aren't usually there through being worn out mechanically, its usually through terminal tin worm. Even fairly modern cars suffer from structural corrosion, despite them supposedly having better protection than any cars previously. Wander around your favourite breakers yard, and for every hundred or so cars there may be 10-15 that are there through having been in a crash, a similar number which are tired mechanically, and the remainder there through neglect leading to levels of rusting that became uneconomical to repair. (more…)