Neil Young was right, Rust never sleeps. Options

[gopack]

Well I am thinking about getting going on my car after it has sat for almost 4 years collecting dust. The body shop left it in primer, and mostly block sanded in OCT of 2006. It has been neglected in my garage for most of that time due to employment setbacks (I was out of work for 25% of that time). Now that I feel settled in my new job, and comfortable that it will not go away, I was thinking about just putting it together and driving it in primer, just to have it running. I figured better to drive than look at it in the garage, right? Well I rolled it out of the garage to spray it off, since it got a bit of road salt on it when Rick (rick 918-S) dragged it out here to California in March or so. Well after I hose it off, I start to notice all the ugly rust areas! WTF, I was hoping that the primer would at least keep the metal from oxidizing while it sat! Now I guess I have to start to think about geting it finished with paint prep and get at least a cheap paint job on it! makes me wish I had the time, room and skills to paint it, but I look at it and wonder how the hell any one would go about prepping all the nooks and crannies for paint?
some pics of the (minor) rust:

[charliew]

At least it had primer on it. How many projects do you see that are stripped and left setting? If that was road salt it would be much worse I think. Thats just where the primer was thin or not put on thick enough. Primer is porous and not intended to hold up very long without a sealer and top coat. To paint it most of that primer will get sanded or blasted off I hope. Anyway it needs a lot more paint on it and touched up and assembled like it is is not the way to go, you will be constantly touching up thin places as they show up as you go.

Clean up under the buckets with the spotblaster and get a small touchup gun and turn the air control down a little and the fan spray down to where it is a tight pattern about 2 inches in diameter but shoots out about 13 inches and shoot it up under the buckets. It got painted before it can get done again.