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Originally Posted by fumanchu1
@ justin don't get me wrong it's a cool, nice car but around here they're a dime a dozen, everyone I know who drifts/drifted had one at one point or another in the last 5 years (We're talking over 20 people I personally know well in a city of 300 000 (100 000 if you take only my city before the fusion). And since demand is high they are all overpriced and beaten to shit, very rare to see one without a rusted frame (they put so much fucking salt on the roads here in winter you could probably attract deers with the roads) |
They don't do well with road salt. I actually bought a complete and mostly running one in FL and drove it home in 2001. Never drove it in winter. The kid I sold it to in '07 used it only in warm weather since then too. I've seen some pictures and it seems in the same condition still.
I bought my Miata from Long Beach, CA and drove it back. There's no way I want to work on a project car that's lived in road salt.
When I changed the exhaust on the 240, the nuts were still hex shaped, the studs still had thread on the exposed segments and the nuts came off with simple hand tools in entirely re-usable condition. I had never seen that before. It was nice.
In VT I actually did see deer licking the street.
-Justin