Who do you think will be down there with cash in hand to buy those cars? Individuals or a corporate sponsor? Both?
Who do you think will be down there with cash in hand to buy those cars? Individuals or a corporate sponsor? Both?
IMHO that entire country has a coastal climate with a high salt content in the air. I would bet most of those cars are rolling death traps once you really started looking at them. Probably more bondo than sheetmetal at this point.
I lived on Vancouver island for a while and there were cars there from the 60's and 70's with absolutely no rust. The most extreme example of this that i personally experienced was an early 70's volvo with absolutely every speck of paint gone off it. just bare metal over the entire thing and there was no rust. I drove a 1989 Saab while i was there that i got for a song and it had no rust. almost 180,000 miles on it and even the exhaust manifold was still silver.
Edit: on the other hand i could only imagine what the inside would be like after being used non stop for that long in a third world country.
Last edited by rci2950; 01-23-2015 at 04:18 AM.
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