What is this vehicle doing here??

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With all the salts that we get on road to melt snow in Chicago and surrounding area, I wonder why there are a lot of nice classics on the road. See, I don't mind if anyone drive a 2002 Taurus and whether it gets eaten by salt on the road. I sometimes wonder why someone would want to drive a 1955 Chrysler New Yorker on the road when there are salt on the road? 2 days ago, I saw a nice early 1980s Dodge Colt on the road. It seems like a lot of work was done on it to make it look nice and rust free. I wondered why it was the road. The salt on road will ruin the work that was put in that vehicle. Not a fan of those quirky early 1980s Dodge Colts, but you understand where I am getting to.....
 
Maybe the driver didn't know any better and thought it was not a big deal, like myself for instance. One day I was driving my M5 on the way to the dealer after it snowed the day before. When I got there, the manager came up to me to greet me (I'm a regular there) and then said something like "Hey you shouldn't be driving your car in this road condition." I could think of a few reasons why. :dunno:
 
I am a lot more comfortable driving an old beater when the weather is bad. I cannot help myself I wince at the thought my beautiful truck splashed by mud and salt eating away on it like cancer. I like to see it parked nice and shiny in the driveway safe and sound. I whacked down the tree that looked like it might drop a spruce cone on it. I go out and sit in it and play music and look out the clean uncracked windshield at the beater. Sometimes I start it with the remote and go out and put my hand over the exhaust to see if it is actually running. I am a sick sick man. I get a lot of enjoyment out of thinking about driving somewhere in it. Me and my imaginary dog, Freida, she rocks. She is my doggie princess that is so happy to ride with me to go play down by the creek. She and I sit there in the driveway in the truck I have a Led Zeppelin cd playing. Life is good.
 
I know the feeling. There is a woman in town that drove a mint 1968 Cadillac convertible throughout the winter...she looked like a rich lady from the '70's.

There is also a guy that works at the Acme supermarket around the corner that drives his '67 Coronet 440, yellow, and the chrome is perfect....every single day for the last 13 years I've lived here. He even had the bodywork fixed up one year, and still drives it daily.
 
It is not just a matter of driving in those conditions but how much attention they pay to washing, etc. afterward.
 
i rather not wearing nice shoes in snow than car. If my car gets ruin by salt snow. I no care for it. LOL BUT I dont want that costs me for life.
 
Having fixed up several 60's muscle cars I can tell you I will never own any car I would not drive everyday. Life is too short to worry more about the car than your own enjoyment.

Enjoy the car as much as you can because you can't take it with you.
 
If I lived in the South, I would be driving a muscle car daily. Too many bad memories of rust have made me cringe while observing nice '69 Camaros being driven with tons of salt stuck to the fenders...One season in Syracuse is all it takes to make rust holes on those vehicles.
 
Is "snow salt" the same as "beach salt"?....When I lived at the Beach (right on the oceanfront)...I washed my new car 2x a week....never had a problem with any rust.....but had seen many cars with rust damage on the Beach....is ther any difference between snow salt and beach salt?....:hmm:
 
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rockin'robin said:
Is "snow salt" the same as "beach salt"?....When I lived at the Beach (right on the oceanfront)...I washed my new car 2x a week....never had a problem with any rust.....but had seen many cars with rust damage on the Beach....is ther any difference between snow salt and beach salt?....:hmm:
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Snow salts often more corrosive than salt at the beach, fortunately it isn't around year long. Guam had a lot of rusty cars, mostly owned by people too lazy to wash and wax them frequently.
 
Rock salt has been used extensively in the Northeast.

I visited a friend in Syracuse a couple years ago, and we were looking at used cars, and I was shocked to see 3 year old cars & trucks with rust holes, as most new cars have great protection.

Growing up there, I still remember my neighbor's 3 year old Vega with barely any fenders left hanging on, and back then, 3 years old was considered "too old" and time for a new car.

Rock salt usually gets trapped in the fender wells, and when it melts, water brings it inside all the crevices, and it spreads like a cancer.

Cars near the ocean usually have more of a surface rust problem, as the dew settles, it leaves ocean salt deposits, but nowhere near as much frame, door, & fender damages as the Northeast cars get.

This is an everyday view of most 10+ year old cars up there:



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Today I saw a Chevy Cavalier just like my dad used to drive (I think his was a 96) and it was about as bad as that car Green427 posted. I couldn't believe it... but I'm someone who would park his motorcycle in the garage and immediately start wiping it dry with a chamois cloth if it had been raining outside. (and yes, there's a lot of bikers who won't even ride in the rain at all)
 
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