Rust!

[Kevin H]

My 411 has been in the workshop of Jensen Motors here in Melbourne, Australia for the last 9 years (yes, there's no decimal point missing from in front of the 9).

Anyway, it is about to come out, albeit without the EFI that it went in for in the first place, but it has failed it's Roadworthy inspection (like the UK MOT except more pedantic), because of what has been described to me as a 'large rust problem' with the rear suspension.

This is quite a surprise to me, because it passed a roadworthy inspection just before I bought it, a year before it went into the workshop where it is now and it was barely driven in that year.

I have yet to see the problem, but is it feasible that my car has been quietly rusting away while being in a very dry workshop for nine years?