Body Shops

The bomb is a wonderful learning tool. I am constantly reminded how not to restore a car. Body shops do the minimum work required for customer acceptance. Customers never look under or behind a repair. By the time the repair fails, the customer may not even own the car.

That rusty red thing is the inside of the right wing. That wing is a replacement. The shop only painted the outside of the wing. The inside is covered only with shipping primer. Customer can't see the inside of the wing, so why paint it? This wing is just about gone. It has rusted through from the back in several places. Some parts of the bomb's body lost their paint in this collision. The body shop didn't bother putting any sort of paint on any part that was covered by the wing. Those areas are now badly rusted.

The left wing had never been removed before today. I can tell because the left wing still had the factory gasket and fasteners. The right wing did not. The inside of the wing is protected by a nice coat of blue paint. Someone with a little skill could save this one. Someone not me. I'm going to keep the two left wing sections to practice on. By the way, you can click the images for a larger view.
The only rust is from collision damage. The wing was hit from the front. The dents were pulled, filled and painted from the front. The shop did not repair the damage to the paint on the back side of the wing. The exposed metal rusted. There are many places that were repaired this way and they are all rusting from behind.