<VV> Gas Tank

[kaczmarek at charter.net]

---- Brandon Muzzin <overkill11111 at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a 66' Monza coupe that I'm working on, I was wondering if it were 
> possible for the gas tank to rust from the inside out?

Brandon
They can, and they do. Last one I saw was in my friend Erics' 64. he noticed that the outside of the tank was damp, and the car had been in the garage for a couple of weeks, no way any water was getting inside the garage.  

All gas has some water in it, and in cars that sit for long periods, they can rust from the inside out. 

 A GM engineer once told me that his dad (also a GM Engineer in the 60's) said the Corvair was originally engineered to last about 10 years before being just about useless.  Of course, we disprove that theory every day.  It's engineering was way ahead of its time, but the high cost of the engineering left choices to be  made elsewhere.  That's why Arm Rests were an option on 60 models, for example.  The interiors of the 60&61 models were skimpy compared to what Ford had on the Falcon/Comet and Plymouth had on the Valiant. 

Luckily used gas tanks abound, as do new ones. 

Hank