Paint and coatings have come along way since that time. Corrosion resistance of the metal itself also. However I am seeing ALOT of ten year old cars lately with terminal rust. The best thing you can do is keep the car CLEAN and take care of the paint. Plastic does not lend itself to repairability as well as metal. Making sure the the body drains are clear and seeing that panels are not trapping water and dirt behind them is the prescription for body longevity. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Harper Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:02 AM To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: IML: plastic and rust
>Plastic may not rust, but how easy is it going to be to find replacement
>parts for these cars in the next thirty years? The difference is, that the
>cars produced in the fifties and sixties were built to last, or at least
>built to be restorable. If my little Nissan makes it through another ten
>years, it will be very lucky. We have evolved into a disposable society, and
>it is even built into our cars. The thin sheet metal and plastic will not
>hold up like our old Imperials.
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I remember, in the 60's and 70's, looking at cars which were approaching 10
years old, and I remember that almost all of them were rust-buckets. It
was almost axiomatic that once a car got to be 10 years old, it was
junk. I suppose that I was hanging around with a crowd, then, which
couldn't afford a decent car, so maybe my memory is only of junkers. I
sure couldn't afford a nice car then.
Anyway, it seems that cars today resist rust more than older cars. That's
my impression.
Alan Harper
64 Mercury 3/4 ton flatbed
69 Dodge D100 pickup
76 Chrysler New Yorker Brougham
92 Ford T-Bird
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