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Old 04-10-2006, 11:38 PM
barry123400 barry123400 is offline
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Matt,of course you are right. Before safety requirements were heavily enforced the 114 type would exibit almost total loss of any sheet metal below the belt line and still be on the road. This was in our bad rustbelt area. There is a salt mine extending miles out under the ocean about twenty miles away. Any employees car from there you do not want to see or buy. On a car like a pontiac grand am the disimular metal in the floor pan and lower panels results in a gap of about an inch where they join. This takes 6-7 years and to try to remove a fastening from one is generally imposible as they just round off.
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