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Originally Posted by why?
lucky pacific northwest. Whatever the country did you guys never get the awful crap the rust belt and the northeast gets. early Japanese cars here would literally last until the sheet metal rusted out and all that was left was the engine and the running gear.
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Not just Japanese cars but pretty much all of them right up to the late 80s. There was no such thing as rust resistant panels and much of the steel used was recycled WW2 ships and equipment that already had a high oxide level when it was melted back down. They were literally pulling ships off the ocean floor and melting them down for decades. Those cars were doomed even outside of the rustbelt. I chuckle when I see people here panic over a bit of surface rust on a paint chip when back then a 5 or 6 year old car could be missing most of the floor and have holes right up to the door handles.