Rant about forsale cars and rust

69Dartconvt69 said
This is what I usually refer to as rust free, out here in central CA we get about 12" of rain a year so the cars are about the cleanest you can find. I grew up in WI, they looked worse than this after 3 months of winter driving back there so I saw enough rust to last me a lifetime.

This is the underside of my 74 Duster with 46K original miles, I know there are no rust holes on the body as I've crawled over and under just about ever place on the car. My 69 Dart GT hard top has a 50 cent size hole on the pass quarter a 3 dime size at the back window after blasting and it was a vinyl top car but another car from this area.

I will only say that I have sold a lot of cars from here and I usually refer to them as rust free if they look close to my Duster and if they have anything worse I call the real clean, it beats the heck out of the east coast alternatives regardless.

JB

First of all nice car.

I would say that's a very nice unrestored original but it does have a little rust. It's truly nothing major but it's there. You are right though compared to something from either coast or in the middle it looks amazing.

I doubt it would need anything more then a coat of por 15 to keep the rust at bay. Also look up at the top sides of the inner 1/4s. Again nice car.

I picked up a '73 charger from a guy for free and he told me it's rust free. I learned that it had been damaged early in it's life and garage kept ever since and used for parts. The car looked completely solid until we blasted it then we found a few holes in the window channel area. Not a big deal since the car was striped and on a rotisserie but it is still rust none the less.