Technical where does the rust belt end

While we are at it, the book "RUST The Longest War" by Johnathan Waldman, is a well written and interesting book.

 

This seems pretty tame
Going to Hershey does seem awful tempting, but I might wait to see what I can find at the street rod shows next year that are a little closer

 

Unfortunately for us old car lovers,the Southern states such as GA are now using a mixture of sand and salt on snow and ice, and pre treating before an expected snow event with a brine mixture. All because the people and businesses of today can't stop and wait a day or two for the snow to melt like they once did. As a result, of course, is we are sorta edging into the rust belt with DDs, but at least our old cars we can mostly put away till the salt is washed away by the rain.
The saving grace for OT, modern, DDs is they are now better protected than in th past from corrosive salts.

 

Here in north east Arkansas stuffs pretty decent unless it's lived above us or by the ocean air. I'm gonna fix a fairly rare optioned OT gm a body that lived in St Louis for almost 10 years then was brought down here to sit outside another 10 years & it's gonna need the wheel house areas inside & out from the city salt & liquid salt. South Missouri I think now might use "beet" juice....... wonder what that does to nice metal . Our highway dept reacts instead of pro acts , so autos seem slower to rust so long as it's from small towns here in upper Arkansas. I'm also amazed at Texas vintage tin..... it's a good place to shop. Trouble with internet shopping now is it might've been a southern car shipped to who knows where n drove in some salt & sold back to a non salty place. Pays to spend the extra dollars for a solid foundation. Flux.

 

When I lived in MT about 25 years ago, I new a guy that had an original rust-free '37 Chevy coupe sitting out behind his house for years. No kidding, the trunk floor was still in tack! Everybody bugged him to sell it to them.

Another guy in our town, had a '46 Chevy P-U that he still used to haul anything he wanted to. I would always see him sitting by the side of the road with a load of firewood for sale! It was pretty beat up and everybody always bugged him too.

When I moved away they were into spraying the roads with some kind of calcium-cloride liquid that would rot everything it touched! I guess the rust-belt ends where you find it...

 

We don't get as much snow down here as all of the states north of us do but when it does snow they use salt on the roads. Go a little farther south to TN and you may have better luck....

 

I once went ALL THE WAY to Florida to see a car that had a Chicago vehicle sticker on it!

 

REMEMBER EYERYTHING DERIVED FROM DIRT!

 

Wherever you go, just ask the state, county or town where they store their road salt. If they tell you that they don't know what you're talking about, you've arrived.

 

For the last 3 years I have been fixing rust from Florida cars and trucks. Salt air I guess or driving on the beach. They still rust down here. I am originally from northern Michigan and if the door handles were still there , that was savable. We used to sit around in the summer and swat mosquitos and listen to our cars rust.
I operated a salvage yard in eastern Az. in the 80's lots of rust free stuff in the junkyards .Don't know about now .

 

now that's just crazy....I'm sure you brought the wife, and what a coincidence this car from chicago is for sale

 

I don't know about the rust "belt", but a lot of rust ends in my back yard!

 

Yeah wife & kids, went to Disney World so it wasn't a total bust but ended up spending way more money. What are the odds of driving 1300 miles only to find a car from the same area?

 

what are some other good places to look other than ebay, and craigslist?

 

I had a pal show me "search tempest" it pulls up listings from eBay ,to c list , to local shopper papers based on zip code ........ pretty cool. Flux

 

Check out Desert Valley Auto parts. They're a salvage yard in Arizona that will ship.
Living in New Mexico I fear rust that most folks from the north etc might call simple repairs. Even when it snows here they just sand the roads rather than salting.

 

I guess I got lucky. Just bought a ot 70's car from Ohio sight unseen. Almost no rust except for a finger nail size bubble in the lower fender.