[speeder]

The only hope is the fact that enthusiasts in the rust belt often seek out and buy their old European cars from points south and then truly stash them away for the winter.

In Minnesota, my home state, there are plenty of mint older cars from dry states stashed in garages. But if they're so much as driven on a warm spring day when there is still residual salt on the roads, they'll rust like a battleship on the bottom of the ocean.

Let's hope it's a dry car.