quote:Originally posted by Rob Borruso:
Honestly spoken...that Coors pic makes me cringe. I like driving em, and hard too....but I think that's spitting in the face of the corrosion demon.. and he always wins.
I tend to agree with that statement.
Giving credit where credit is due, NO ONE in ITALY ever conceived of any of these "exotics" still existing 40 years down the road.
I'm not sure if you can point a finger at anyone and find intentional fault with the structural designs.
Unprotected steel on the interior structures of these cars, combined with monoque design philosophy and practice AND US rust belt weather and chemically treat winter roads just make a very poor combination for longevity.
In fact I will go even further and say that the condensation vapor that forms on the interior portions of the bare steel surfaces is really just sets of a chain of irreversible motion to a certain rusty death and often untimely.
I am still convinced that the only way you can even just slow that time clock down is to electrostaticly submerge the complete steel substructure and body sheet steel in a two stage vat primer, let it soak in there for a sufficient time, then put it in the oven for 40 minutes to cure it.
Then at least you have a fighting chance.
Anybodies sheet steel is already dying from the minute it is produced. This is simply a function of what an atmosphere containing 21% oxygen does to virtually everything, given enough time.
Those shots of a red car (I'm partial to red Panteras) in the snow, on a mountain road in the Rockies are MAYBE the most picturesque shots I've ever seen.
Granted they weren't intentional but personally I'll remember them for a long, long time...very positively!
