[daniel911T]

Originally Posted by vtdriver

Great post.

How do you deal with salty road/rust issues with the car?

Lucky for me, they don't do much with salt down along Puget sound... it's pretty frequently cold, but seldom spends a lot of time below freezing.

I passed through two short salty sections while driving from Virginia to Washington two years ago. The first time I was under the car after that I could barely believe how severe the effects of the brief salt exposure had been. It was especially obvious on my freshly rebuilt transmission that was now covered in a white flaky corrosion. That thing had looked like new only one week earlier.

Since then I've been pretty hard core about frequent washing and going places with undercar blasters. There's a lot of rain here, so she gets frequent freshwater rinses.

Sadly, she is going to need a serious strip and paint sometime in the next 10 years or less... the underbody coatings are flaking off and are not in good shape.

For now: I'm going to enjoy every moment I have with her.

-Dan