<VV> RE: Rust Free Cars

[Bill Elliott]

It's really strange. My grandmother's Dodge Dart NEVER spent a day 
inside until I got it. It lived outside in the yard (on grass) of her NC 
mountain farmhouse for 35 years. When I got it there was a tiny hole in 
the driver's floorboard and another in the trunk. Everything else was 
solid. It has rusted more since I've owned it (now living in a 
ventilated unheated garage on a concrete floor) than it did sitting in 
the yard.

On the big picture subject, though, I've seen the bodyshop bill for a 
rusty Corvair run into 5 figures... when a mostly rust-free body is only 
a $1500 shipment away...

Bill

Dave Keillor wrote:

>A car that has been stored anywhere may have issues.  The best place
>I've ever stored my cars was in a wooden horse riding arena with a dirt
>floor.  The floor was as dry as powder as far down as you cared to dig.
>A clay floor would have been a poor location.  The worst I've seen was a
>cement block building with a dirt floor.  Concrete can be bad, too,
>depending on the age of the concrete, whether it has a vapor barrier
>underneath, and the type of building.  Here in Minnesota it's the
>climate changes that pose the biggest rust issue.
>
>Dave Keillor
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
>[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of
>mmcguire at hiwaay.net
>Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:41 AM
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: <VV> RE: Rust Free Cars
>
>Any car that has been sitting in anything with a dirt floor may 
>have issues. You just have to look and take your chances?
>
>
>Currious,
>
>
>Dirt pole barns here in Texas are known to hold some of the most
>rust-free cars
>I've ever seen.   Maybe it's location dependent observation?
>
>
>  
>


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