Fiats and Rust.

["Bruce Matthews - Bruce's Parts Bin" <bruces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I owned a 1969 Fiat 850 and it rusted so much in four years, that when I
moved
from Wash DC to MO, I just left it in the parking lot.  I washed it
regularly,
drove it one winter on Long Island, with very little snow/salt, etc and
almost
nothing at all in the two years I actually drove it in DC.  It just rusted
out
from the inside of all the wheel wells out.

I had similar experiences with three 128's and two Stradas in Kansas City.
My
1984 Jeep CJ7, which saw a lot more salt, etc than the Fiats combined did,
is
still going strong.

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Not sure what your point is? Compairing the rust of a 69 car to one made in
84???? Even 84 Fiats rusted much less then 20 year older cars...Fiat was not
prepaired the way we US customers drove our cars, the salt we used and they
did hot keep them as long. Later cars had wheel well covers, painted frames
etc.
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