Ok, I have never used molasses either. But I have read some websites where they restored some Model A's. They would start with panels from different cars that would be in horrible shape. You could hardly touch some of them or they would fall apart. Any standard way of stripping the rust would have done more damage to the remaining metal.

So, they use the molasses because it is so mild. The body pieces are soaked for months. I have seen pictures of pieces that went in and then came out. They looked pretty amazing. After joining those crummy pieces they build whole cars.

Anyway, I would like to see a product available in the paint store that would do that. I don't know of any.

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