XfbodyX
Well-Known Member
Oh I know. I grew up just outside of Detroit and the only reason I bought an F body was there was not a single street driven duster that had quarters or a good drivers floor pan. My sisters new F did ok rust wise but it ran hand in hand with most rust belt cars.
Even here in the dust bowl today the folks who live on the wet dirt roads have 2-3 year old trucks with holes in the back bumpers but yet you can find some things like early square Dakotas that never saw a dirt road that are perfect sheet metal wise but are sandblasted by nature.
My parts car here in the pics was a life long dust bowl car in a semi arid desert and we get about 16 inches of precep a year and in my opinion its the perfect balance for longevity when it comes to rust and not hot and dry enough to cause the desert type deterioration we see on the full on desert cars. People just cant grasp that I have dry crankshafts/blocks sitting in a corner for over 10 years and they have zero rust on them.
Ive noticed many good fmj cars on CL in the Southern California area priced well enough to where one could grab 2-3 and ship all in one shot.
Even here in the dust bowl today the folks who live on the wet dirt roads have 2-3 year old trucks with holes in the back bumpers but yet you can find some things like early square Dakotas that never saw a dirt road that are perfect sheet metal wise but are sandblasted by nature.
My parts car here in the pics was a life long dust bowl car in a semi arid desert and we get about 16 inches of precep a year and in my opinion its the perfect balance for longevity when it comes to rust and not hot and dry enough to cause the desert type deterioration we see on the full on desert cars. People just cant grasp that I have dry crankshafts/blocks sitting in a corner for over 10 years and they have zero rust on them.
Ive noticed many good fmj cars on CL in the Southern California area priced well enough to where one could grab 2-3 and ship all in one shot.
