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    is this a rusty car??

    would board members please look at the complete foto file and express their honest experienced views on the subject.
    This is an AZ car from new, with perfect pans, front horseshoe, battery boxes, jacking points, sills and door shut, there is also no rust in any body panel or bottom of the door, bottom of the front fenders as evidence by the fotofile:

    http://www.slide.com/r/-FKN5j687j_i1S_HzptvtpjtWKrB5vgC

    in the last 2 pictures of this file one will have some blue tape on the tie down hooks, a tip I learned after having car haulers use these as tow hook and rip them out,
    and th epicture just before that shows an area where the underseal has failed after 34 years,
    thank you for your attention.

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    I have looked at a lot of rusty 911s, but I can't really evaluate that car from the photos. The last photo looks, to me, like an area of rust through somewhere in the area below the rear seats, where the fuel lines run, but I am not sure of the location.

    The underside of that car looks like it has had a rough life.

    Good point about the tie-down loops. Mine were sheared off when someone tried to use them to pull my car onto a flatbed. They are completely useless for towing.
    Tom F.
    Long Beach, CA

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    I agree with Tom. The last picture looks like rust through (or nearly so), but the area is hard to determine though his suggestion of rear seat well seem to fit.

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    FYIactually it's the rear passenger inner fender where the a/c line runs,
    it is just where the undercoating was pulled off, it is solid metal.

  5. #5
    I'd call it a pretty solid car
    Tom F.

    '67 911S Slate Gray
    '70 911T 2.8 hotrod (in progress)
    '92 964

    #736

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    That area is easily accessed, it is an area where rust is almost never found on a car in this condition. Just because there is corrosion on bare metal, does not mean there is soft metal. The history of this car, and the photos seen would lead me to believe that this is a sound car, in the perfect color, in very good mechanical condition. I wish it was in my garage.
    Bill Woods
    S Registry #1005

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