Here is the 86 Reliant for sale. As you can see, it has some MAJOR cancer underneath:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/86-FWD-w ... 06.c0.m245
It looks like I could take a chisel or my bare hand and start breaking off pieces of rustflakes. Correct if I am wrong, but the death of the K-car tends to be the rust
in those areas, right? What is that area called. I am talking about where the sheet metal goes underneath the side of the car and is welding into like pinch welds or sheets
along the bottom of the car. The annoying thing about them is that they get terribly damaged. For example, my pinch welds are squished in a few places under my car. I am surprised
they haven't rusted, except for a tiny bit of surface rust I found where the metal was really distorted. Mine were caused by some idiot using a jack to jack up the car and the full weight of
the car was on the jack and thus creased the metal. Also, the car went over a curb once and the curb smacked the welds behind the wheel. Also, all the rust tends to attack those areas the most. By a show
of hand (lets tbe honest ), how many of you have:
1. A little rust on those welds (surface)
2. A lot, no perforation, but you can scrape off dust with your nails.
3. Rustflakes. The welds might as well not exist.
How do you fix that? Isn't the K a unibody and those welds keep the car from coming apart. What happens without the welds? Lets make a funny vid about K-car welds and how to protect them. We could make
it really funny with cartoon characters putting jacks under them, or running over curbs, or doing donuts in snow. Just a thought for our K-car general knowledge and entertainment.