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Originally Posted by carbking
HOW OLD ARE YOU???
My parents never traded in a car in the 1950's with less than 100K; most more, and a 1952 pickup truck made it almost 300K.
My best to date is a 1979 Ford van that went 440K before it rusted out (Missouri winter salt and cinders) the third time!
Jon.
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You think you had it bad, people in Minnesota go to Missouri looking for rust free cars.
It wasn't so much that the mechanicals wore out, it was the bodies - when I was a kid in the 1950s and 1960s it wasn't uncommon to see cars that were only a couple years old that already had major rust holes. It really wasn't until the 1980s that the auto manufacturers got a handle on corrosion resistance.