Just thinking last night about keeping the V6 for many years. This led onto what condition the bodywork might be in, in say 15 years time, would rust be any major concern?
I know the bonnet is aluminium, front wings are plastic, and obviously bumpers, but what about inner wings, rear wings (Is this a standard 172/182 with the bodykit grafted on). I remember reading in Evo when the Mk1 V6 was still a prototype that Renault were looking at removing the original rear wings and grafting the V6 wings on to the rear column and under the rear side screens etc?
Doors and sills I know are standard items with moulded sections cast on top.
Id be interested to find out what materials are where on the car.
) From what i could see it seemed to be a standard clio shell with a massive hole where the engine goes in the back and where the normal rear archs would be, the inner metal arch is basicly a strip of metal that was attached to the body by L shape tags, id be worried about water getting in any of this area, it was only held on by about 4 of these L shape things and you can get new clios that come with free rust! if you can get spay wax anywhere on the inner arch and body it mite help?
