>From David.Kao@Eng.Sun.COM  Tue Jan 17 18:45:54 1995
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 95 16:45:49 PST
>From: David.Kao@Eng.Sun.COM (David Kao)
>Subject: Re: VW commandments

>>
>>From: todds@sonny.chotel.com:
>>>Rust, Heck!  Move to Arizona!  No, the real enemy is entropy, and
>>>I know of no cure.
>>
>>Uh, living in Arizona is no solution either, it just takes longer to
>>happen here.  I've been trying to get my roof replaced since November,
>>and it just won't stop raining so they can do it.  :-(
>>
>>In the past couple of years, some cancer has appeared in the 
>>side panels of the bus.  I guess when I start to lose things thru
>>the holes I'll have to fix them :-)   Anyway, I have living proof that
>>cars will rust without salt on the roads.
>>
>

There would be no fun if vanagons never ever rusts. I guess living in the Bay
Area in California does become a bit bored. My 84 vanagon just doesn't seem
have a tiny patch of rust at all. Not just vanagon, Volvo does not rust either.
There has been a small spot on my hood hit by a flying rock on HW 101. The spot
exposed the shiny metal and NO RUST has ever developed after something like 3
years.  I went to Yosemite national park last winter (1993) and drove the vanagon
on Yosemite's salty roads. I just realized that I had driven the vanagon on salty
roads. Luckily, I still do no see any rust any where.

David Kao
83 Westy and 84 Vanagon
dkao@eng.sun.com