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Subject:Re: ENTIRE interior is out... any odd jobs I should be doing?
From:George Goff
Date:Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:51:03 EDT

In a message dated 8/9/05 10:04:02 PM, mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM writes:

<< spray the entire inside with Krown's anti-rust oil. >>

This is overkill and it may have at least one shortcoming.  I once restored a
Volvo and did a color change on it.  Since all of the interior trim was out
anyway for the color change, I had a buddy completely cover the insides of all
the body panels with the wax based compound he used in his rustproofing shop.
The stuff was similar to Waxoyl.  All was right in my world until the weather
got warm; then the rustproofing became a thermal mass which turned that car
into an oven.  Have you ever been in the attic of a house with an asphalt
shingle roof on a sunny day?  Similar effect.

Since I have yet to see an undamaged body panel start rusting at its center,
all that is really needed is to coat the bottom of the panels on the inside
and, perhaps, spray a band of the rustproofing on the panel seams.

George