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Default Modern car paint and rust

On 02/16/2017 8:06 AM, Leon Fisk wrote:
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Most people look at the body color/paint, interior... I get down and
look all around underneath. The exhaust, drive shaft, suspension,
wheel wells, emergency brake cables, frame rails


Years and years ago (before 1978 as hadn't made the TN from VA move yet)
used to travel to Cleveland and Wickliffe, OH, regularly for employer as
had a major subsidiary/vendor there. Once coming back to catch the
corporate flight back to Lynchburg that evening, an old rust-bucket
pickup literally did hit a serious pothole in the pavement and the frame
buckled behind the cab to the pavement. Created quite a backup pretty
quickly; fortunately I was able to get past and on to make the flight
but was educational!

I remember also that all the freeways were just littered with mufflers
and other body parts that had rusted to the point of falling off...not
what we were used to in Lynchburg, VA, or even in KS where, while it's
cold, it's so much drier don't have the rust issues.

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