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[Renze]

Every time I see that, I think of of the Willys Wagon that I paid $500 for. It ran, but ...

when I peeled back the truck mudflaps used for floor mats ... there was the ground beneath.

I know stories like that, only from people who are 20 years older than me, and were students before in 1985 the MOT (or whatever its called in America) was introduced...

 

[kenmbz]

A number of my friends had see through floor boards back in the late 70's early 80's
Most cars rusted, some like the Italian and Japanese of the period could almost see the rust forming up in the North East during winter
No safety checks etc, until years later.
In NJ they don't do real inspections now due to finances. Another outsourcing win :-(

 

[Renze]

A number of my friends had see through floor boards back in the late 70's early 80's
Most cars rusted, some like the Italian and Japanese of the period could almost see the rust forming up in the North East during winter
No safety checks etc, until years later.
In NJ they don't do real inspections now due to finances. Another outsourcing win :-(

The Alfa Romeo AlfaSud rusted already in the brochure, they said. Weld jobs on 3 year old cars were not uncommon.... The only cars i ever welded on were my friends grandmothers Suzuki Alto (One size smaller than the Suzuki Swift, which you guys know as the Geo Metro, an equally rust prone car) oh and the Nissan Patrol of my neighbour.

My previous Volvo was used as a farm tractor, it pulled 5 inch trees out of a front yard when i didnt feel like taking the tractor, and at 560.000km and 22 years it was still rust free. I never owned a car with rust issues, only Italian, French and Japanese cars had that...

 

[California]

In NJ they don't do real inspections now due to finances.

I've read that mechanical failure is only a very small part of vehicle accidents. Driver error especially drinking, is the cause for nearly all.

 

[California]

Towing something wrong ...
(Click on it if it doesn't start)

https://imgur.com/GsP2CDg

 

[Helogabals]

The Alfa Romeo AlfaSud rusted already in the brochure, they said. Weld jobs on 3 year old cars were not uncommon.... The only cars i ever welded on were my friends grandmothers Suzuki Alto (One size smaller than the Suzuki Swift, which you guys know as the Geo Metro, an equally rust prone car) oh and the Nissan Patrol of my neighbour.

My previous Volvo was used as a farm tractor, it pulled 5 inch trees out of a front yard when i didnt feel like taking the tractor, and at 560.000km and 22 years it was still rust free. I never owned a car with rust issues, only Italian, French and Japanese cars had that...

Italians were legendary.
In a calm and silent night you can hear how Opel is rusting

On other hand Audis and Volvo were very tough. I had V850. Once I got the car on trunk there was spot like 1 X 1 cm where paint was gone. Bare zinc were shining. I drove around that car for 3 years. At the end that spot was the same. Maybe zinc a bit more dark grey, but for sure it was far from rust

 

[BOB_UK]

My neighbor built a woodstove for his BIG shop,,
it took 4 to 5 foot long logs,,
Two guys would toss four or five logs (8 to 12 inches in diameter) in the front double doors,
and then pour a gallon of used motor oil on the ashes of the previous fire.

The "chimney" was a piece of 10" steel pipe, that went straight up through the roof.

They lit it with a propane weed burner,, the fire would heat the shop all day.

The stove was twice the size of a 275 gallon oil tank.
It was the biggest woodstove I ever saw,,,

While the oil was burning, flames went out of the chimney 10 feet high,,

Over the years as a Heating engineer here in England I started fitting straw fired boilers and covered 7 counties in the south of England
These boilers could either burn wood or straw, the last one I fitted was the largest and would take two 5' X 4' round straw bales. The heat was pumped into a 2,000 gal. insulated tank and from there the heat was pumped to were it was needed, the farmer bred and raised pigs and at anyone time had 2,800 pigs on the farm. I installed underfloor heating into 3 large farrowing buildings so the new born piglets could run out onto a warm floor and not use electric heat lamps, the two bales would burn out by mid day but the stored water would last until the next morning when two more bales were loaded

BobUK

 

[Renze]

Italians were legendary.
In a calm and silent night you can hear how Opel is rusting

On other hand Audis and Volvo were very tough. I had V850. Once I got the car on trunk there was spot like 1 X 1 cm where paint was gone. Bare zinc were shining. I drove around that car for 3 years. At the end that spot was the same. Maybe zinc a bit more dark grey, but for sure it was far from rust

I welded Volvo tin in several Japanese mini compacts...

Audi was as bad as the Italians in the late 70s. I remember my uncle having an Audi 80 from the late 80s with this Audi sticker on the rear windshield:

https://flic.kr/p/M4EsTy

It says "10 years of warranty against rusting through" which i found quite funny because my dad had a 20 year old rust free Volvo 245...

Only much later i learned that Audi had to come from very, very far with their rust proofing.

 

[duramaxsky]

Towing something wrong ...
(Click on it it it doesn't start)

https://imgur.com/GsP2CDg

The car ain't gonna pull the avalanche out.

 

[Jstpssng]

With all due respect the Volvos of that era were in a class of their own for safety as well as engineering.