[T3] WOW! the RUST!

[Robert Klein]

I had a 59 Opel for a little bit. Way cool car, it looked like a small 55 Chevy. Never did get it running. Parts were pretty hard to find.

Sent from the desk of Robert Klein 


On Apr 20, 2016, at 6:59 PM, "Keith Park" <topnotch at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> biggest problem here is that nobody will spend the money on snowtires
> anymore, despite the fact that technology has moved the snowtire to the 
> point of leaving black marks in the snow they are so good.  The low profile
> tires are very expensive to make in snows, and not nearly as good, so folks
> do without and creep along at 5mph when it snows and tie up traffic so they
> push for the salt so the roads are clear.
> 
> My Father bought the Opel new in 75, drove it for 20 years and I used it as
> a winter car for 5 more, before restoring it.  an EXCELLENT Zebart job and
> careful oiling preserved it pretty well, but Opel exhaust parts and brakes
> were getting too hard to find and it was just impractical to keep it going
> in the winter, and of course... there are still many things that you cant
> protect from the salt.
> 
> 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"
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org]
> On Behalf Of Brion Sabbatino
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 9:30 PM
> To: type3
> Subject: Re: [T3] WOW! the RUST!
> 
> Nice that it is in a collection. Have no seen an opel in years. Not even in
> the west. I certainly do not miss the snow and salt if the East. The salting
> is just idiotic. Let them plow and let drivers mount snow tires every year.
> Simple.
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Keith Park <topnotch at nycap.rr.com>
> Date: 4/20/2016  7:19 PM  (GMT-07:00)
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] WOW!  the RUST!
> 
> 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"
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: type3-vwtype3.org [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org]
> 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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