At 8/4/2006 12:18 PM, Old Volks Home wrote: >The better the construction, the longer they >do last, but that of course is dependant on where you're at, the Rust Belt >verses the almost Rust-Free Left Coast (PNW excepted). I was on a 13 year vacation to the upper mid-west. 5 yrs just north of Chicago, a couple of years in Michigan (Traverse City) and 6 years is northern Minnesota (Bemidji area). At the end of that time we returned to Washington state (PNW). The first thing I noticed were the mountains, the second thing was the rust free condition of the cars... ALL the cars. Then I started noticing all the VW buses. When someone lumps the "PNW" in with the "rust belt" I really have to wonder where they are coming from. There are NO rusty cars out here (that didn't come from Illinois or Minnesota), take a trip back there and see what a rusty car looks like. <Shrug>, JMO...
Rob becida@comcast.net '87 Wolfsburg Vanagon in western WA |
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