[T3] WOW! the RUST!

[Keith Park]

My winter car is a winter car for the winter car... the old winter car was
the Opel, but since those are rarer than T3's I finally restored it and kept
it out of the salt, its in an Opel collection in Toronto now after I sold
it.

Keith


Topnotch Restorations
topnotch at nycap.rr.com
http://www.a383ina68.addr.com/radiorest/main.htm
71 Squareback  "Hothe"
65 Notchback  "El Baja Rojo"
93 RX7  "Redstur"
87 Golf  "Winterat"
 

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On Behalf Of Bobsnotch at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 8:33 PM
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] WOW! the RUST!

In a message dated 4/20/2016 8:18:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
topnotch at nycap.rr.com writes:

I  crawled under Winterat to replace the rear muffler and was shocked at  
what
I found!  This is the heart of the rust belt,

So its  expected to see things rusting pretty fast under there but this  
year,
anything that didn't have oil on it was vastly more

Rusty that  any previous year and this past winter was a pretty short one!
Brakes,  exhaust, rims.  all rusting up faster than ever before!

I know  they have been using magnesium chloride on the state roads for a
while, and  even Beet juice, YES  Beet juice!  But this year they  started

Brining, with special brining trucks, on all the interstates  and some of 
the
county roads.. But what is IN that brine?  What  happens when you MIX the
Magnesium with Salt?  Do we have any chemists  here?  My poor little Golf!
Whatever they are doing its causing the  rust to speed way up..

NASTY NASTY stuff in those brine trucks, but  what is it?



I think Ill keep the Golf on the road thru a couple  more good rains, don't
want to be driving Hothe thru any puddles for a  while yet till I know its
all washed off.  I haven't seen them washing  down the bridges yet or any of
the Zambonies run thru the  neighborhood..
I hear you Keith. I don't know what they're using either, but I've  got get 
in and do some repair work on my Geo Prizm, as the plastic bumper cover  is 
trying to fall off. I've already had to replace a section of rear frame 
rail  on it, just to hold the muffler up and in place. It's beginning to
look 
like I  need a winter car, for the winter car with the way it's rusting
out.
The things we do to save our beloved Type 3s.

Bob 65 Notch  S with Sunroof
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