That's awesome.

I tend to assume East coast = rusty(ier) vehicles. Long coast lines
are each. It's easy to think that since BC has a west coast, we're
golden for rust. Not so. Nearly every Westy I viewed (Vancouver BC and
not far from) before buying this Slate Blue, at least had seam rust
starting, were repainted, or just out right rust buckets. The ones
with seam rust starting would obviously have more lurking.

It's interesting to note how seam rust may start. Elsewhere, I see
spots at what I think are welds, where rust spots are starting. i.e.
in engine bay. These have been sprayed down with Rust Check though
I've heard Fluid Film is better.

Neil.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com> wrote:

> My '87 was that clean and it was sold by a dealer in Virginia Beach and spent most of its first decade within spitting distance of the Atlantic.  West Coast Vanagon types accustomed to the rustless vehicles they know are unwilling to believe that such a thing is possible in the east.

> On 2012-09-17, at 8:08 PM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:
>
>> Yup. No mentionable rust so far.

-- 
Neil n

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'88 Slate Blue Westy to be named.

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