On 2016-03-13, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:10:02 -0600, Tim Wescott
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:51:54 -0600, Ignoramus16966 wrote:

I was very lucky in that a few months ago, I bought a Fruehauf flatbed
semitrailer than was untouched by rust DESPITE being 30 years old. (How
this is even possible, is beyond me, but I have pictures to prove it).

30 years without significant rust is kind of the expectation around
here. It probably came from down south, or perhaps the Southwest.

30 years of service in states where they salt the roads -- that would
make it rust out.

Indeed. We have original vehicles driving around the roads here that
were made in the 1930s

Gunner

Yes, maybe it was somewhere in the dry warm state mos of its life.

My beavertail semi trailer is the same way.,