Thanks for all your feedback. I don’t have that doom and gloom I had yesterday.

My car was originally from Maine, but is now in Arizona. The dry climate here should (hopefully) help slow down the rust.

Maybe in 5-10 years I’ll remove the frame and properly fix it, like er1c did (btw awesome 'lift' er1c). Until then, what can I do?...

Should I try to get the spots down to bare metal and repaint? Seems a bit tuff with the fame still on the car. …or coat it with something like Corrosion-X?