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3. The Rusted Rabbit

Posted by Anton on April 22, 2015 at 10:25 AM

Bad news, this Rabbit is rusted, and it's bad. Under the wheel wells the factory had applied some sort of tar-like coating, presumably to protect against rust... but I guess it didn't work so well. As I scrapped the stuff off, more and more cancer revealed itself, I picked and picked at it discovering ust how awful the rust really was.

One thing to note too, is that the rust isn't in some nice, easy to repair spots, no it's all around very shapely parts, parts designed to hold the entire car up in the most important places, the Shock towers and A-arm mounts. I cannot possibly patch this amount of rust in these places. Some serious thought has to go into what happens next... ugh, I don't want to send an endangered species to the crusher! Check out the Rusted Rabbit gallery for some heartbreaking photos.

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