In the immortal words of Neil Young, rust never sleeps.

I wouldn't spend any time fixing that kind of rust damage but I'm a
westerner. There are many clean bodies around cheap with fatal mechanical
maladies, and lots of decent vans at reasonable prices.

 Heck, you could buy Tim's OEM ice cube trays and I bet he'd throw in a van
for free!

Just my opinion, but it's right.    :)

On 4/9/07, chris <vanagon@frontleftspeakerposse.com> wrote:
>
> would you bother fixing, or start looking for a doner van to swap all of
> the good stuff into?
>
> http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/ch/christophercs/rust.JPG
>
> this is the worst part. it looks worse than usual because I removed that
> sliding door cover piece to get a look at what was underneath. Also a
> friend put some 'stop rust' stuff all over the bad parts for now, and it
> turned them hard and black.
>
> http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/ch/christophercs/RUST5.JPG
>
> http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/ch/christophercs/RUST7.JPG
>
> http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/ch/christophercs/RUST8.JPG
>
> http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/ch/christophercs/RUST10.JPG
>
>
>
> and most of the rust looks like this:
> http://imagehost.vendio.com/preview/ch/christophercs/RUST9.JPG
>
> I picked up the van in New Mexico 2 years ago, and unfortunately it
> spent a full winter in Minneapolis, driving it all the way through
> winter. It has since located to CA, but ever since that winter it went
> from (what looked like) no rust to what you see now. It seriously only
> took 2 years to get this bad (or to where you could even see it.)
>
> would you bother trying to fix all this, or start looking for a doner
> body?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>

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