I went down and looked at a LWB maroon 79 That a guy in Austin got in a bad ebay deal or something, a NA 5 cyl, 4 speed. and every door and rocker was ate up at the bottom, He apparantly bought it with out seeing it taking the guys word in good faith, If some seller tried to put that off on me--Theres no way I would honer the deal. This truck would have taken a small fortune to replace all the panels. Benz apparantly did not start getting serious about rust preventitives until around 81 or so.