Is an Exocet the best way to deal with rust?

How do you deal with rust? 

So we’ve established that I love MX5s and I love my MX5s in particular. While not obvious purely from what I’ve written so far, I have never yet sold a car, a record I don’t intend to break starting with Kayleigh. We also know that the poor old MK2.5 model MX5 of mine cannot keep on without some significant intervention which brings us to the choice, do I:

1. Learn to weld, deal with the many rust issues and continue to deal with them for the foreseeable future, thus saving my poor vehicle for as long as possible from the great scrapyard in the sky. 
2. Ditch the rusty bits altogether and do something altogether more ambitious, expensive but perhaps ultimately… fun?

Believe it or not, the choice between these was made using a practical argument – while the car has been roadworthy the last couple of years, due to the existence of the orange MX5 it has barely been used. I don’t want to lovingly maintain and restore the car just for her to sit in a garage developing the next rusty piece of restoration work for me. The alternative, at worst will give me something to occupy my time for a while, hopefully with a sense of achievement attached, and at best, a fun car that can be used in a completely different way to the orange Mk4. Okay, maybe not completely different. 

Enter the MEV Exocet, a tubular frame chassis with some fibreglass bodywork that will reduce the weight of the car by a significant amount, reduce the practicality to basically zero and hopefully be a bit of a riot to drive. The overall process is to remove the mx5 body leaving just the suspension, engine, gearbox and differential joined together in order to drop the new body over the top. Simples…

So, next step was a trip to KitFest to have a chat with Stewart who builds the kit cars, ask him many many many many many questions (sorry Stewart), and a few days later, having selected from a smattering of options, put down the deposit for a kit to start production. Not sure of the current lead times but I would anticipate picking it up in a couple of months time.

And, here we are, working on removing everything from a car that technically hasn’t yet failed it’s MOT (because it hasn’t had one) with some potential rust issues being slowly (but hopefully not too slowly) dismantled. My ultimate goal just to give this car a new lease of life, whatever that may be.