knuckleharley

Speaking for myself,I have spent my entire lifetime fighting rust,and there is no excuse for leaving exposed rust showing on a car or truck in good enough condition you can drive it.

The only way to kill rust is to remove it and seal the metal so it doesn't come back.

Yeah,I am guilty of liking the look of an original car over that of a restored car or hot rod with show paint,but not enough to keep me from trying to preserve the car so maybe the next owner can be driving it 20,or even 50 years from now.

I have personally met a man that took a grinding disc to the original paint on a 34 Ford coupe and then let the surface rust start before priming it with gray primer so the rust would bleed through and it could look "Old Skool". You could see the grind marks in the steel. He then got a junkyard 305/700R4 drive train to put in it. I guess that was "Old Skool,you know,like they did it back in the 50's,too!"

The blue Dodge pu in the photo above is something I could live with,though. The rust is sanded down,and I suspect it is covered with clear to keep if from rusting again.

My opinion only,and please feel free to disagree. Just do NOT try to tell me "that's how they did it back in the 50's." I was alive in the 50's,my older brother and all his friends owned hot rods,and I know better. They may have been painted with a brush and a can of black paint from Western Auto,but they were painted.

A free P-15 convertible?
 
You sure know how to start out right. I'm thinking I need to ask you for advise because all I get is junk,and I had to pay big bucks for that.

I like Fast and Loud for the most part. They are about the only car show on tv where people admit they screwed up and that they lost money on a deal.

Also,you have to understand this show and all the other shows are about shops that build cars for a specific market. They are after the upscale buyers who want what is cool and trendy,not gearheads that like working on cars and driving them. It's all about being stylish and being able to brag that you have a car built by a famous tv car shop. It's about status and bragging rights,not cars.

Yeah,you can build a car in a week if you have 10+ people in a fully equipped shop that know what they are doing,and are willing to work 20 hour days 7 days a week. It also doesn't hurt if you are like that one show was in Ca that used to call Art Carr when they needed a hot rod auto transmission,and Art Carr himsef would show up with it and a 4 man crew to install it for you. This doesn't happen for most of us.

Fast and Loud mostly caters to the sytlish rat rod crowd,so they don't worry much about rust or scrathes. Or paint and bodywork. They have a formula where they use late-model Chevy truck engines in all the cars they build,and they buy them complete with the transmissions and wiring harnesses. Which means they don't worry much about rebuilding the engine and trans.

They use modern Ford LTD front suspensions that they buy out of junkyards.

It's all a combo they know and understand that is reliable and inexpensive.

I like watching these shows mostly to check out the tools they use.