Is this fixable? How Would I Go Ab fixing it?
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Highwood Malibu said:
Don't do that! Fiberglass will crack and split from normal driving and you'll be back to square one. I tried that on my Cutlass' roof and that's what happened. Cut out as much of the rust as you can, and weld in new sheetmetal, or maybe an entire roof from a donor car.
Qdub24 said:
X2 on this, DO NOT Fiberglass this if you want to fix the car correctly. The only way to deal with this is to cut out the rusted portions and replace with good metal; either by fabricating metal patches or obtaining replacement metal from a donor vehicle.
If you can do it yourself by cutting the sheet metal and replacing it with new sheet metal that would be cheaper obviously but if a shop has to do it, it would most likely be just as costly as buying a cutlass in better condition.
Personally i would find a new body. Or if your good at welding or know someone who is get a doner car, could go with t-tops now if you can find one and measure and dozen times and cut once. Alot of work though probally easyer to swap into new body.
67rstbkt said:
It's fixable, but depends on how much you're willing to spend. My car was just as bad if not worse:
I decided to keep mine because it was the only one I had ever saw with a factory sunroof/astroroof. Definitely would've been cheaper to just buy another one though.
Damn rust curse you, them rot tops are nothing but a rot top waiting to happen. I got rid of mine before it even had a chance to start. But the way it looks, I would start getting ready for alot of spot welding, cut the rusted spots out with a cut off tool air or electric grinder with a fairly thin wheel, try to keep it in squared up, gonna need a dremal for the small sh*t. And 1/4 glass removed, headliner and most the interior while you do this. Gonna have to have some donor metal and cut it or buy some of the same gauge, and shape it to fit. So like stated before it's ****ed! But can be fixed practice on whats there if no go cut the top off another and use it. Oh and I would never use fiberglass on bare metal it heats up more than regular body fillers which = sweat = rust.
Anything is fixable, where there's a will, there's a way. But the effort to fix that car would be tremendous. If it were my car, it'd be parts.
Unless the chassis, engine, and/or interior is in awesome shape I would walk away very fast from that car.
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