http://rochester.craigslist.org/cto/5119605890.html Wow....and they get hammered with snow out there usually.
That's a lot of miles for a no winter car. Plus the interior looks surprisingly un-faded.
No winters = snowbird trip to Florida??? :) That's my guess and would explain the miles...
Last picture almost looks like a winter tread tire. My younger brother lives in Rochester and cars that see the winter rot out in a season or two. When he first relocated there from RI, his pristine car turned to hell after two winters up there.
Lou, that's what I can't believe about the s-charged one I just bought. 177k, always called Eastern Mass its home, and everything aside from the door bottoms might as well have come from the southwest...
Gotta buy a southwestern car one day. My Thunderbird is from California originally. It does wonderful things for the undercarriage........
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when you zoom in on the drivers side.. it looks like someone edited the bottom of the door lip and the rocker seam behind the door...there are weird rectangles on top of the pic that really dont match...this car probably has been repainted and is ready to explode with rust
I see what you mean. I think they might be hiding rust.....
the other side too ...and there are big edits on the lower rear quarters too
My car was winter driven for several Indiana winters (and has similar mileage) and other than some minor rust on the door seams is rust free. It did have a quarter size rust bubble on the passenger rear quarter that had to be cut out and patched when the car was repainted. If you are really buttstuff about immediately washing the salt off, you can fight off the rust for the most part. That being said I'm not gonna start winter driving my car any time soon, lol.
There are numerous variables, but overwhelmingly I've found that if you see any significant rust on the side exterior of these cars, or Panthers (maybe even MORE in the case of Panthers), RUUUUNNN because the undercarriage is 10x worse! Haha.
Lou - I need to post up a pic of the Marquis' undercarriage. It's all covered in some unknown thin black undercoating (not the typical textured rubberized stuff we all know and hate) that seemed to be extremely effective over 65k miles and 25 years in Southern Missouri winters (well, if they drove it in the winter at all). I squat down at random times just to look at it, brings a smile to my face every time :)
What's funny, my under side is virtually mint on my cougar, but i have quite a few quarter panel and wheel well rust spots. Doors were as good as new when i swapped them for the manual doors. I also have a few rust spots on the bottoms of the fenders. One day i was working on the car, went to pull myself out from under it, and my hand went through the fender. There was nothing but paint holding it together.
My 85 T-Bird was like Haystack's: External body rusted, including the door bottoms, rear quarter panels (in front of, around, and behind the wheel arches), and front fenders. With all that rust, however, the underside of the body, including the rocker panels, was mint - still coated in the factory primer
Just buy a car with a bad rear main seal. My old 1980 Tbird had a bad rear main for umpteen years before I bought it. All that oil flinging all over the bottom kept it showroom fresh to this day. I fixed the seal and sold it. I bet it rusts out now, lol.
The 87 XR-7 that I had back in the 90s was the same way. It leaked oil and transmission fluid everywhere. I delivered pizza in ohio winters for years in that car and it never had a speck of rust.
Now, of course, I'm older and have a nice driveway, and I don't want my cars to leak. So the cars stay bone dry, and rust immediately.
Dead ringer for my first one. Only difference is the mudflaps and the dealer emblem on the trunk!
Maybe it's some kind of oil coating?