The car sat since at least Feb 98 in his Dad's backyard. The good thing is that there really is no rust-through on the body, just a couple of pin-holes on the rear quarters that actually look like they were caused by rock chips, as there really was no other rust. In fact, I am probably just going to patch the holes with little 1" squares of sheet metal rather than cutting things apart. I am still looking for rust, but evertime I stick my head somewhere looking for it, I have been surprised by the lack of it. Which is why I am preserving the metal now, so far just light surface rust.
Next I am going to strip the paint of the bottoms of the rear quarters just to be sure there is no well hidden rust. then I am going to neutralize the rust again, and coat the metal with encapsulator. i have seen so many cars with nice paint jobs and bubbling rear quarters it makes me cry. If fact it happened to my Dakota I had painted about 7 years ago, a flawless paint black job, then the rear fenders rusted from the inside out. I was so disgusted, I sold the truck as-is. That will not happen to my Dart.
