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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Rust and older cars
Message-ID: <712@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 12:05:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 12:05:37 1985
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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> I am in the process of preparing a '79 Saab to survive a
> Northeastern New York Winter.  The car (which I bought
> last spring) has a moderate rust problem, which I judge to be
> controllable and ultimately correctable.  My immediate problem
> is to get it through the coming winter, as the major body work
> won't be happening until next spring.

A friend of mine faced a similar problem when he was preparing a car to
survive a Wisconsin winter. One nice fall day he did the first half of a wax
job on it - really laid it on thick and rubbed it in good. He then let it
dry - and polished it in the spring. He claims it worked.


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