Did Chrysler have rust problems with the 76' Darts, Dusters, Scamps?

I guess it depends on your definition of "rust." LOL

I can still remember one early morning I got out of the barracks on my day off at NAS MIramar. This was when I had the 70 440-6 car, and this was 72 or so

Against the sun just above the horizon, I see a 70 across the lot, but something looked "strange," LOL, almost like a "religious experience." Was I seeing a vision? LOL

NO!!!! The car was a guy from the wrong coast, and I was seeing the SUN SHINE CLEAR THROUGH THE TRUNK from one quarter panel to the other!!!!

Thing had GIGANTIC rust holes in the lower quarters and into the trunk!!!


On a side note, there was a cutie who worked on base, and I guess was a dependent, as she had base privileges. One day I had here 70? 71? Vega on the tune up scope and asked here "are we ready to close the hood?"

"Wait" she says, "I need my tools." So she digs in the trunk and comes up with 4 of those huge gigantic cheap screwdrivers you could buy in the big bins. You had to start the hood shut, and jam the screwdrivers down between the hood and fenders because the front end was "falling together!!!"