tigerfish replied on 27/02/2016 18:11
Posted on 27/02/2016 18:11
I mentioned this in the other thread on colour, but I don't think that many today appreciate te almost daily fight we used to have with Rust!
The hidden Devil that lurked beneath almost all cars in the 60's and 70's has been almost beaten today by the advanced anti rust coatings applied to all cars at an early stage of manufacture.. But I well remember my neighbours lovely looking Lancia Beta being condemed at a young age in the mid 70's, by its own manufacturer because of faulty design, permitting rapid rusting to take place. But there were many others! Our own British Leyland cars rusted like pigs, so did early Jaguars. Vauxhall gained a dreadful reputation due to the early Victors tendency to rot away!
Many new owners thought they were being very careful for paying for underseal, but I well remember my late father discovering that even that was fraught with danger when a poor application allowed water to get in under the underseal and quietly do its damage until it was nearly too late. Hillman Avengers suffered too! As a young car salesman I was always in trouble if I bought in anything that was suffering from rust.
As I said mainly a problem of the past but we need to be careful that protection standards don't slip!
TF
and once it had got a hold it was very hard too stop but as said things are better now.
tigerfish
Motorhomer