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ATTN: 68TS, Sixties muscle, Toner, & Motown Madman

The '69 ZL-1 in the pics posted by Supernovass has a pristine body in my eyes. It would be childs play to fix to what I've seen in my area. Where I come from the cars got winter salt baths + worse yet, fallout from the many steel/industrial plants. Years ago when the pollution was bad I would see cars that were 1-2 years old have the paint totally stripped off by rust.I have seen cars in junyards that 100% of ALL PANELS need replaced due to the fall out from the mills. Some of the cars have litteraly collpased (imploded) to where the cowls/roofs etc have caved in due to major structural rust. I have seen inner quarter side panels that the rear quarter window regulator bolts to have rusted out holes 16-20". I have seen rusted out holes in roofs by the upper windshield trim, not bottom, that go back 4-5"-clear open space. Not to mention rusted out cowls. Even the pillar the door hinges bolt to are totaly gone and the inner cowl structure has rusted away as well. You guys tell me you will try to replace these panels? No way. The car would have to be junked or rebodied. I really wonder how many posters that are against rebodying would not rebody if the car was one of the missing ZL-1's or 1 of 7 Hemi Cuda convertibles. I personally would not rebody a car because that's not my cup of tea but can see the reasons why some would. Sometimes it is not a question of time or money but the impossibility of redoing the car regardless of what one of the posters said above.
Dave