Oh boy! A topic for me.
My 2001 F-350 with 85K miles is incredibly rusty. The cab underneath is just flaking away. It sill has floors, body mounts, but all the cab supports and rocker panels / cab corners are gone. I have new ones to weld in but that is just for aestetics. The bed already rusted off - floor, cross bars and wheel wells. So now it's got the wood flatbed made from scrap wood. It works okay ... ish. Bottom of the passenger door is completely gone and you can feel a good breeze coming in from the bottom. It's been through a few sets of brake lines over the years. So far *knocks on wood*, the frame and springs are holding up.
My favorite rusty vehicle was a 1995 Wrangler I bought for $800.
I knew it was rusty but mainly bouht it for the axles figuring to body swap it. As soon as I got it home, every YJ body within 500 miles disappeared off marketplace.
The frame was really bad. It rusted out at the crossmember. Pretty much every time I took it off road the frame would snap somewhere else. The floors and body structure were completely gone. I went to try to pull the seats out to zip in some sheet metal (there wasn't enough metal left for welding in new panels) and the transmission crossmember fell out. Apparently the previous owner used allthread through the seat bolt hole and frame to hold the transmission crossmember in because the middle section of the frame was completely gone. That was about the only solid metal on the body.
When I took the hard top off of it, the body immediately taco'd on itself.
There were no seatbelts. The B pillars were gone. Instead I had ratchet straps I used for that. Because of the way the body collapsed, the doors wouldn't even fit in the openings any more and there was zero chance of strikers ever lining up. So I had to use ratchet straps between the 2 door pull handles to keep the doors shut.
Ended up using a bunch of old metal bed frames self tappered around to at least try to get something that resembled a floor and somewhere to
There was not a single body mount left on the body itself either. I wish I still had video of this mud run, but the video shows the body bouncing and flopping around while the frame stays relatively planted.
I brought it on this mud run with the intention of pulling the axles and scrapping the rest of it. I converted the AX5 into an AX4 and eventually an AX3 by the time I was done.
In this picture you can see how the body is tacoing on itself
And the ratchet straps I used to keep the doors shut
My 2001 F-350 with 85K miles is incredibly rusty. The cab underneath is just flaking away. It sill has floors, body mounts, but all the cab supports and rocker panels / cab corners are gone. I have new ones to weld in but that is just for aestetics. The bed already rusted off - floor, cross bars and wheel wells. So now it's got the wood flatbed made from scrap wood. It works okay ... ish. Bottom of the passenger door is completely gone and you can feel a good breeze coming in from the bottom. It's been through a few sets of brake lines over the years. So far *knocks on wood*, the frame and springs are holding up.
My favorite rusty vehicle was a 1995 Wrangler I bought for $800.
I knew it was rusty but mainly bouht it for the axles figuring to body swap it. As soon as I got it home, every YJ body within 500 miles disappeared off marketplace.
The frame was really bad. It rusted out at the crossmember. Pretty much every time I took it off road the frame would snap somewhere else. The floors and body structure were completely gone. I went to try to pull the seats out to zip in some sheet metal (there wasn't enough metal left for welding in new panels) and the transmission crossmember fell out. Apparently the previous owner used allthread through the seat bolt hole and frame to hold the transmission crossmember in because the middle section of the frame was completely gone. That was about the only solid metal on the body.
When I took the hard top off of it, the body immediately taco'd on itself.
There were no seatbelts. The B pillars were gone. Instead I had ratchet straps I used for that. Because of the way the body collapsed, the doors wouldn't even fit in the openings any more and there was zero chance of strikers ever lining up. So I had to use ratchet straps between the 2 door pull handles to keep the doors shut.
Ended up using a bunch of old metal bed frames self tappered around to at least try to get something that resembled a floor and somewhere to
There was not a single body mount left on the body itself either. I wish I still had video of this mud run, but the video shows the body bouncing and flopping around while the frame stays relatively planted.
I brought it on this mud run with the intention of pulling the axles and scrapping the rest of it. I converted the AX5 into an AX4 and eventually an AX3 by the time I was done.
In this picture you can see how the body is tacoing on itself
And the ratchet straps I used to keep the doors shut
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