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Originally posted by svandamme
small question , while yours is cut up :
the hot air piping , is that steel? eg > is that stuff that can rust or is that some form of plastic/polyester tube?
trying to find out if i could use that to channel oil lines for a front mounted oil cooler , eg push em throug that tube
of course , if they're plastic, or PVC , then that wouldn't be such a good idea...
second question > if metal : how rusty were they ?
do i have to worry bout them beeing rusty on my car ( since i can't see that from the outside, and didn't work on those last winter...)
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Stijn,
The hot air tubing is metal. They weren't too rusty (just surface), but the insides of the rockers were pretty bad.
Guys, I realize some of the concerns here are tongue in cheek, but trust me, many people looked at this car and everyone decided it needed just too much work to save. I could have sold it, but then all the hidden rust I found during cut up would surely come back to haunt me no matter how many disclaimers I gave.
To me, rusty old 71 T's are pretty much MGBs. Sure, they are nice cars, but unless you have unlimited time and really know how to weld, or have unlimited "stupid" pockets, these cars are just better off put down.
Here is what would have needed to be done to this car to make it whole again:
Left and right longitudinals
torsion bar tube or least repair at the ends
Left and right inner and outer rockers
left and right jack posts
Entire front pan (repair job was so bad you needed to redo the entire thing)
both front fender attachment wing
both front fender rails
left and right lower windshield corners
top of back seats or very bottom of back deck
left and right rear floors
Anyone want to take a guess at how much $ it would take to put this on a bench and do all of this work? Sheet metal alone is probably $2000 +