Restoring a Afro Romeo Spider,With unbelievable Rust & misaligned body
 

Here You go ,Start with the Trunk...

Here you go...

Flavor of the Week ,,,Carbon Fiber

You STOP the Rust with "Zero Rust" https://www.zero-rust.com/ You paint the Zero Rust Right onto the Rust ,NO NEED TO GRIND THE RUST... then Use my Fiberglass filler and Bondo,And then Primer...

here we go in 5,4,3,2, and 1

let the comments fly!

I work on old cars a lot and I have for decades. "Zero Rust" is not a miracle cure for rust..it'll just continue to do its thing under and behind that rocker. Did you just apply carbon over those holes? The only IMO acceptable repair is to cut out the rust and weld in good metal. That will last a while, but that's it. It will just piss off the next owner who discovers it. Listen to what Neil Young said...."Rust never sleeps".

Like I said before ,,,"You can't make it better than brand New,NEVER"...I've been using Zero rust for almost 30 years never had a problem,,,and Rust never sleeps ,thats what keeps me bizzzzzy...

Here's a hole in the seat ,and this is the Way I fix it ,,,Other people have other Ideas ,BUT this is HOW I DO IT...
take Wax paper and put it over the bottom of the seat .Glass it with Carbon(should be Glass~ Carbon ~ Glass sandwitch",,,Set it in the hole ,And We have a FIX...

I just can't

Looks like another good repair and quality restoration. Somebody in SoCal is gonna be str8t RIDIN' in that whip. Keep it up DaMoose.

It ain't never gonna be a show car. It certainly ain't gonna last forever. But, it's good enough to get it back on the road I guess.

This is how to do metal repair, with metal.

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I hate to be the next owner... and discover repairs like that. As long as you disclose your method...no harm:) its a driver

Your right its NEVER going to be a show car that takes $30K in body and paint,,,My bro picked this up for a Grand ,He put a rebuild motor in it ,sound RAD,,, You mean spray can primer doesn't work ??? OH NO...

Right on Moose!

Hey Darrell: is that your early Ghia. I see the small grills so it must be a early one, tell us more about it. We had a 55 Ghia back in “the day”

No G, That one isn't mine (1957), its a friends in san diego. I have a later one and a bus. These are mine.
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Dont laff at my bus bro...this was the day I pulled it home.

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Da Bus is KILLLLER ,It just takes work...

Moose, Its all in primer now....no rattle can!! This is my stack of replacement metal.
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Other than that...its perfect :o

BRO ,Im a pro ,,,I use Fill primer with hardener,,,$250 a gal with hardener,,,Im a Smart A$$,,,Here's one I did well over 20 years ago BAD Rust Still no problems using Zero rust and my secret fiberglass filler...I have no nobody down here in S.D. with a spray booth,,,I spayed this one when I lived in Da O.C.

Here's one I fixed And Spayed with Rustoleum

Darrel. That Ghia is awesome. It’s cool how older VWs Bus’s are going threw the roof $$$. That compi bus is cool. My first car was a 62 Convert bug. I traded it for a 69 911. Man older 911’s are bank now

^^^Nice! Tasteful work on the cabrio. Have you seen the price of early 4.5 inch Fuchs rims...$2000 each! Desirable VW's are old Porsche prices and early Porsche or anything air cooled Porsche is crazy $$. You should have kept the early 911.:( One is on my bucket list...356 or mid 60's 911. Love all that stuff.

That convert was my first car that picture was taken in 1986. When the cal bug and mini truck fad was going strong.
I payed like $500 for the Fuch’s at a swap meet LOL that convert had a W convert deck lid and other cool parts as well like Early tail lights. Best of all it had 4-12’s Cervin Vega in the back all powerd by old school Zapco amps & Nakamichi crossovers Zapco
pS200 EQ Morel Mids & Tweets I had one of the first CD players by Sony, damm that thing used to bump!

Got all the Rust fixed and 80% of the dents done ,were 1/2 home ,,,Now's when you cherry it out ,still a lot of work left...

Keep it coming, this is hilarious.

Cherry it out?

The Spiders back from the paint shop...
I fixed all the rust and did 90% of the body work (the hard stuff) saved my bro a ton of $$$
couldn't fin a spray booth for rent with in 50 miles ,so he had to send it to a paint shop...
I have a beautiful Binks 18 with a 2.5 Gal presser pot (a must for gelcoat)

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