On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Sean Garrett wrote:

> Put your evaluated experience aside and go start knocking on
> doors in those states and looking at vehicles in driveways (while driving
> the roads for potholes). Your really are missing the "hard" evidence of
> damage inflicted on vehicles/roads if you do not.

Send him to Michigan and let him take some pictures of 15 year old pickup
trucks.  Rope laced across the bed to keep the fenders from flapping in
the breeze is a common accessory.

Vanagons suffer badly, as well.  Not just seam rust, but control-arm rust
as well, which I find much scarier.

I think the sad fact is they just don't care about vehicles that old,
though.  Few peole keep cars more than 3 or 4 years, and it's in the
state's interest to see people buying new cars more often because it
increases tax revenue.

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