[Healeys] old beat up '56 Healey in San Antonio back in the mid 60s?????????

[rrengineer @dslextreme.com]

It does not matter where these cars come from, they will eventually rust!.
Mike MacLean

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Tom Felts <tomfelts at windstream.net> wrote:

> You sure yours didn't come from the NE?:)
>
>
> ---- "rrengineer @dslextreme.com" <rrengineer at dslextreme.com> wrote:
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> Hey! I'm in California and I had to replace the sills, floors, bottom of
> the
> rear frame rails, lower parts of the inner fenders, trunk floor, etc, etc.
> Not everyone on the west coast starts with a slightly rusty example.
> Mike Maclean
> 56 BN2
> 60 AN5
>
>
>
>
> >  I often joke with west coast folks that start restorations on
> > rusty cars (read slight corrosion in the dog legs, original sills,
> > floors and rocker panels in great shape) while some of us, in the salt
> > ladened areas, be it deice material or ocean salt spray, have to repair
> > every piece of steel in the lower 12 inches of the cars and sometimes
> > higher.
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