Hi all... I just wanted to share a few pictures with all of you as to exactly WHY you need to come to Arizona for your next car. I took some pictures this weekend of my 72 TC. Check these areas out that are normally pretty bad on most cars. I dont mean to make you east coast guys jealous...but let this be your incentive to come out here to the desert for your next project. Sorry for some of the sideways pics...but you get the idea. We call this ARIZONA GOLD! All the door skins and rockers are perfect...and the floors, especially the 3rd row seat floor... are flawless. The other bonus of an AZ car?? They are CHEAP too!
You're mean. Now my screen and keyboard are all drooly. We're lucky to get new cars that clean. The factories up here used to park them in their storage lots for months before the dealer got them, in winter weather, and then transport them 2,000 or more miles by rail and truck on roadsalted roads.
speaking of Arizona i was at a buddys last night...he bought a 49 Pontiac 'tin woodie' out of AZ a few years ago.....ITS FREEKIN AMAZING !! Not a spot of rust on her!!!!!!!!!!!!...still !!! everything that isnt metal is shot but....geez...its clean!!! I'm jealous
Impressive. My wagon has never seen a winter, and it's maybe that clean, except I have rust around all the big windows, but just surface. I need to get an AZ car next time around!
It is really neat to start with a car like this... I haven't run into a nut or bolt yet that doesnt just make a nice snap noise and then thread off/out by hand. Even the tough suspension bolts and body bolts that haven't been touched since the factory... just snap...and hand spin right off. I've had a southern car before that was clean... but this western car... WOW.
Im glad you guys have a sense of humor... I figure this is my reward from the car gods for all the total rust buckets I tried to save when I lived in Michigan... Wrench On!
For us guys in the land of cold, snowy, roadsalt covered highways, you are in Restorer's Paradise! Having come from Michigan, you know how quick a floor rusts out, firsthand, so I'm glad you've got an eye for good junk. Thanks for the drools.
Norman, I am really sorry, but I can't really feel for you. You should try the humid, salted air here in Holland!
You should get him to help you find a good project wagon down there. I've seen the cars in Florida, and on our Atlantic coast. Top-down fungus, but the floors and frames stay solid. Ontario and Quebec and the Prairies are the rust-belt. Finding something with a good undercarriage is a miracle, and exception. Breaks your heart. I read last winter that some Cities and States are switching to beet juice and cutting the roadsalt content to melt snow, without rusting cars out. Maybe new car waxes could be made to protect the tops of cars on salt-water shorelines.
Stef, that lift that Dyna uploaded is perfect for doing the undercarriage. Most Rustproofing shops miss stuff, and that's where the rust goes. Find out if they have any spray can format so that you can get the stuff that they miss.
