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Originally Posted by TimFreeh
It is very satisfying to do this sort of rust repair but it is very time consuming. As others have said you almost have to have a dedicated garage space since the car will be laid up for at least a couple of weeks - and most likely more like a couple of months... or years!
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I just looked in my parents' garage, and I guess if I want to put a positive spin on it, I can say this: If I can clean out that nightmare of a garage, after that, repairing a car will seem like a breeze. There's a busted fridge, shelves and shelves of junk, appliances, oil cans from 1975, sleds, wood, cardboard ... good grief. Anyone wanna buy a non-working refrigerator? 
I think the best thing to do will be to get it in the garage and just start stripping stuff off. Then I can try to repair it, and if it doesn't work out, I can sell the parts to fellow forumites, put the engine in another car and at least be able to say Chase is living on and helping others.
Of course you know if I can accomplish repairing it, I'm then going to be tempted to fix the '75 ... which is, if you can believe it, worse than this one. 
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