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To: ManyMoose who wrote (193268)	1/17/2007 9:33:17 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

They say that used cars from the Southwest are the most desirable because they don't have salt on them all winter. Back in my monetarily challenged teenaged years, living on the Oregon coast, I was the proud owner of an old 1964 Pontiac station wagon that I'd purchased for a hundred bucks. Said wagon had spent its formative years in Ohio, collecting prodigious quantities of under body rust from the salted roads. After being relocated to the coast and sitting outside in the salt laden air, it acquired a thick veneer of surface and paint rust, to the point that it was difficult to discern its original color. To cut to the chase, I was cruising down Hwy 101 one day, in my beloved rust bucket, when the entire tailgate fell off and I watched it bouncing down the road behind me in my rear view mirror. Seems that the hinges had completely rusted through. Sold it to a buddy of mine who drove it until it blew up. He watched it go through the crusher at the junk yard and informed me that it simply disintegrated into a pile of rust...