For those of you wanting to get fancy and wishing to drop a little more $, you could buy a vibratory tumbler (similar to a rock tumbler only faster) with derusting and polishing media loaded inside. You can get them from eastwoodcompany.com...I think around $100. Shine up the stuff and then get a home plating kit from caswellplating.com.
I suspect however that this will put a serious damper on the time you have available to actually DRIVE the car...
