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[highroller54]

So I have always had to do a bunch of rust repair on every car I have ever built and I'm not into that for my next one. Is it realistic that I can drive to say cali and buy a 62-65 nova and expect it to be 100% rust free? Or is there still going to be some or depends on where the car was stored or?? I'm not wanting to pick up 30,000 dollar fully restored car to start with but If I could get a nice rust free shell I would be happy.

[Ntrain2k]

What is rust?

 

[n/a mike]

every old car I've owned that was a socal car had rust.
my nova had a shit ton of rust.
the beaches have more salt than the roads where ever they still use salt on the roads in winter.
Bought a 70 chevy c10 in Vegas, it spent it's whole life being used like a stripper, hooker, your mom. it wasn't cared for at all and was a work truck.
It had no rust at all, not even in the typical rust areas for c10 trucks.
I think the desert is the best bet for a rust free nova, especially if you can find one owned by some grandma after grandpa died.

However if you need someone to check out a car in San Diego just send me a pm.

[turbohf]

i have lived in this area my hole life. only had one rust bucket and it came from the mid west.

crx has 300+ k miles traveling up and down the west coast with no rust.


but i think the problem your gonna have with a old car like that is the trunk/window/etc seals rotting out and water getting in the car and sitting/rusting it away. that shits gonna happen anywhere...unless sitting in a barn for 40 years...

[highroller54]

However if you need someone to check out a car in San Diego just send me a pm.

Thank you mike.

[rawr]

the beaches have more salt than the roads where ever they still use salt on the roads in winter.

L   O   L   Nope.

You could drive your car on the beach through a wave everyday and still never attain the level of salt a northern car sees in the winter

[92CXyD]

the beaches have more salt than the roads where ever they still use salt on the roads in winter.

L   O   L   Nope.

You could drive your car on the beach through a wave everyday and still never attain the level of salt a northern car sees in the winter

Yeap, I've seen my share of Midwestern cars from SD, MN, WI,.... and they all have some of rust.

I use to sell a lot of rotors, caliper, suspension bushing to guys who got sweat deal on a car bought that area. 

[bigdaddyvtec]

the beaches have more salt than the roads where ever they still use salt on the roads in winter.

L   O   L   Nope.

You could drive your car on the beach through a wave everyday and still never attain the level of salt a northern car sees in the winter

Bingo

[n/a mike]

the beaches have more salt than the roads where ever they still use salt on the roads in winter.

L   O   L   Nope.

You could drive your car on the beach through a wave everyday and still never attain the level of salt a northern car sees in the winter

driving a car though one wave a day maybe, but I'm talking about all the salt spray that is all over everything at the beaches here. not to mention the light-moderate flooding we get in beach areas every winter.


This is a mixture of rain and ocean water plus all the salt spray that was all over everything.
This is a pretty common sight for our beaches.

I'm serious when I say that salt gets all over everything here. cars will rust sitting in your driveway, maybe it's different up in the pnw, but here in socal this is true.

However if you need someone to check out a car in San Diego just send me a pm.

Thank you mike.

No problem, I like cars so it would be cool to check out some bad ass novas, or shitty novas depending how much you want to spend

[rawr]

I assure you its not even remotely compairable.

ocean salt spray is nothing compaired to having a vehivle literally cached with salt and gravel for 5 months

[PhilStubbs]

Being a Floridian coastal resident my entire life, I agree that you are better off near the beach than in a state where the roads get salted.

With that said, you will have a tough time finding a rust free nova unless you go to the desert. The metal prep technology back then just isn't what it is today. Those cars have rust issues almost no matter their location.

[highroller54]

That's what I was worried about. Fuck I don't want to do a full resto build right now.

[ratcityrex]

North west. Salt is not used on roads here. They use deicer instead. Not to many cars rotted out here  but like said. Rear window seals ext...

[92CXyD]

That's what I was worried about. Fuck I don't want to do a full resto build right now.

Find one where a full resto was down or almost finish, and the guy lost interest or budget fail.

Then profit 

[highroller54]

should have got serious about that silvery grey 1965 you posted up with fresh bodywork

[ratcityrex]

I was sending you bad ass fondation cars for a while. Pm me your phone number and ill send you links to the ones I find.

[highroller54]

The problem is I just spend over 20k on a travel trailer three weeks ago,  so I'm just not ready for a nove purchase yet. Still dreaming unless I sell the h-t civic.