Ok here’s the deal. Before I was born my mom’s car died, and since she was pregnant at the time they bought a 1985 Volvo 240 DL station wagon brand new. Now 18 years later and more than 300,000 miles on it the car has for the most part become mine. I have been a fan of this car my whole life, and hate to see it die. The car is solid mechanically, but the body is a different story. 1985 was one of the worst years for Volvo bodies, as some of you may already know. The body needs some major work (which I will be performing), so here are my questions:
1. Does anyone have any body work experience that they care to share?
2. When adding steel to the existing body, which I assume is carbon steel, can I use Stainless or Galvanized?
3. Anything else that seems relevant except scraping it.

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Pretty much all I can say about the body work Side of it Would be to buy a book with body work How to.Being that you are in N.J. You want to make sure you do it properly so that in a year its not falling apart again.N.J. is one of the worst place to have a car and having to do body work on from rust.I talk from experiance.

 

Any suggestions as far as books go?

 

Not really im not that much into body work.You can look at either your local Auto parts store or at like Border books or something like that.

 

Alright. Thanks!

 

No problem.