The car was under coated when new, I bought it from the original owner. I put an ad on local cars for sale facebook pages, and this guy called me. He said he was driving it, occasionally up until 3 years ago, when the slave cylinder went out. Then he pushed it into a building and forgot about it. So I drove 7 hrs round trip and bought it for $500. Very little rust and mostly surface. At least the engine isn't stuck on this one, like it is on my 75 X1/9.