I wasn't so much the weight of the sheetmetal, it was the lack of coatings. Today's sheetmetal is actually thinner for less weight. But all of the steel used in cars these days is zinc coated. It's much more resistant to rust. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hey, my second car was one of those, a fifty 4-door fastback > I gave $50 for. I can think of nothing to love about the > thing. It weighed about the same as an armored car. Finally > put the number seven rod through the side of the block. I > was actually able to drive it to the junk yard that way. > Because I drove it in they gave me $10 for it. That's not as > good a deal as it sounds because I had put a bit of money > and a lot of work into by then. A strange thing was it had > no rust in an area where they used heavy salt, late fifties > just disintegrated under those conditions. I think it was > the thinner sheet metal they used. > > Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse) > Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com > Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Walter Hamler wrote: > > Gawd Tom, you really are showing your (MINE) age talking about "straight > > 8's ! > > > > Walt (whose first car to drive was a Pontiac straight 8, which was a > > flathead to boot!) > > > > On 1/5/08, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gor, the indignity of it, a Buick with a generic V6, what ever > >> happened to that wonderful Fireball Straight Eight? > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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