Quite true in my experience too. I have seen many beach residing
Vanagons with bad rust bubbling up on the bottom edge of any or all of
the windows. I removed the windshield on my 87 Syncro to work on this
rust only to find that the hidden area was rusted to the point where I
could poke 4 fingers of my hand through. I cut part of the nose off of a
junker and replaced the whole part between the seams below the
windshield and above the grill. 2 years later the part at the lower
corners of the windshield is pretty bad too and I wish I had done a
bigger piece.

Mark
near

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> In a message dated 9/9/03 2:07:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
> > Move to California. Get lazy. No rust.
> >
> >
>
> actually ive had quite a few vans from Coastal California that had
> substantial rust under the window seals from the ocean salt water in the air weeping
> under the window seals in the form of dew or condensation running off the rest of
> the vehicle surfaces..  or from being deposited there by rain, in the rare
> event it does rain in SoCal..      Tho the rockers/doglegs/underbody of those
> vans are always rust free.
>
> chris
r San Diego

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
>
> In a message dated 9/9/03 2:07:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
> > Move to California. Get lazy. No rust.
> >
> >
>
> actually ive had quite a few vans from Coastal California that had
> substantial rust under the window seals from the ocean salt water in the air weeping
> under the window seals in the form of dew or condensation running off the rest of
> the vehicle surfaces..  or from being deposited there by rain, in the rare
> event it does rain in SoCal..      Tho the rockers/doglegs/underbody of those
> vans are always rust free.
>
> chris