I have a real Arizona 1979 truck and I am pretty blessed to have almost no rust. I pulled my floor mat as I am about to can the bench seat and put in a set of buckets, but Uh Oh! Right under the gas pedal is almost gone. Yesterday I made a 50 mile trip to a junkyard and I was all prepared to cut a floor out, but I spotted a screwed in piece of sheet metal with the stickers still on it for a replacement floor panel. When I got it off, the floor under the pedal was pretty much gone from the 78 truck it was in. Mine is a 79. Now there were some nice shiny floors worth cutting out, but the repair panel saved me some time and talk about luck! I noticed if there were rubber mats it seemed the floor was gone under the pedal area and in some cases the passenger floor too.

The question is, why the rust under the gas pedal? The rest of my floor looks like it was painted yesterday and still had some factory stickers/tape on it.

I think I am going with carpet! And after the patch panel is welded in and properly treated, dyno mat. But I don't want it to happen again.

 

Wet shoes !

 

Check the Cowl for holes and also the windshield like to leak in the corners...