Downsides Of Leaving A Project Sitting

 As I return to my project car hobby, at least for awhile, I become faced with some of the issues of leaving it sitting. Rust and corrosion on things that in my mind were still brand new but now more than 2 years old.

Opening the hood there is a bunch of corrosion and sand. It was bad weather when I moved it to the new house and the road spray carried sand into the engine bay. humm. Hadn't thought of that happening or I would have tarped the front better. Another glaring issue was the fan shroud. Didn't have a chance to paint it before the move and with the road spray and perhaps even salt, it was looking pretty poor. Luckily it cleaned up good with the wire wheel and was treated to a crude brush epoxy paint to keep that from happening again. At the moment protection is more important then pretty.