PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - A little help checking out cars out of state

Mölyapina · #26 09-06-2013, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by giff

Jo- No worries. There's generally no cars worth looking at in the Northeast.....ahhh, rust belt!!

(although the VT car Shertex listed looks good, which is another way of saying it was either garaged in Winter or came from outside NE)

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Originally Posted by 1project2many

Most cars here are very rusty but if there's an exception it will almost always be clearly spelled out in the ad. That VT ad said car isn't driven winters. My car came from Texas which was mentioned in the ad. Just today I found a nice Toyota pickup with no engine or trans that had migrated from CA and will make a great start to someone's project.

Yeah, there still are some nice vehicles here too

. It's not absolutely necessary to garage in the winter, either: my parts car lived most of its life on the coast of Maine, and yet the only area of rust in the whole car came from water that had leaked in -- something that would have been fixed if the car had not sat idle (in grass!) since 2002 and actually been driven by someone who would have noticed a leak. I parted it out not because of rust but because every single electrical accessory was broken, the exhaust system had been stolen, the calipers were bad, and other usual "car-sat-next-to-a-barn-for-nine-years" stuff. How was it so rust-free? It was oilcoated every year. Undoing bolts -- even the dreaded engine mount allens -- was easy because even they had not rusted. I'm having my Texas car oilcoated this winter.

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Originally Posted by thayer

Yup, if nobody jumps on it by late this month, I'm buying a one way out of Charlotte to his house.

Whose house?