On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:42 PM, Jim Akiba wrote:

> 1-2 years driving during the winter, yeah easily. Not rotted out in
> that time of course, but it never happens all at once. Once the salt
> gets in there and the corrosion starts to do it's thing, good luck
> stopping it. You can help prevent it, but it's brutal. There are no
> garage queens around here(few anyhow) and most of the rest are long
> since off the roads rotted away.  Maine is wonderful, don't let rust
> make that decision for you. This is one of the chief reasons CA is
> just a PITA regarding not letting us bring the conversion there, they
> must force a fleet overturn of old vehicle to get them off the roads
> because it doesn't happen naturally like it does here. Maybe they
> should just start salting the roads in CA ha

Here in Utah where we have the Great SALT Lake, they salt the roads
in the winter also, but it is a "dry" salt that doesn't rust out our
vehicles much????

I also try to avoid driving my vehicles when the roads are salted,
which is less & less w/ Winter disappearing for whatever reason you
believe.

Pax,

Tom B.-salt is for margaritas

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> On 10/9/07, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Oct 9, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Jim Akiba wrote:
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>>> Does it drive Warren? Also how many winters did it spend here? It
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>>> takes 1-2 to get the rust ball really rolling.
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>> OMG, really 1-2 years?
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>> Is that why everyone in New England has a barn attached to their
>> house & why you see very few buses on the road there?
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>> Tom B.-Thinking of moving my "fleet" to Maine or not
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