I know this is a bit off the eagle topic but...I own a 2000 Chevy one ton truck. Its originally from Michigan. I hit a deer the the other night and as I pulled off panels I am finding so much rust :o :'(....This is a 2000...I cant begin to imagine what and Eagle would look like after 23-31 years of Michigan humidity, winter road salt and moisture...I truly have the utmost respect for you guys restoring these cars up north!!! My hats are off to you all for the amount of metal work and rust repair that must be involved in a restoration up north!!!
Take care
Shane
also add ohio and new york to that list ;D
...oh yeah Ohio and New York too ;D....And everyone in the rust belt for that matter!!!...After looking at my poor truck I have a new found respect for you guys!!!
one of the drawbacks to moving back to PA from utah is that you's should fail an inspection if you have rust on your car any bigger than the size of a quarter or any jagged edges (never seen rust make a smooth edge). on the flipside in utah as long as you have the usual brakes, lights, horn, wipers and pass the I/M test your on the road .... no body needed :P
Thank you we need all the help we can get ./2 of my eagles are from MI the outher one is from southern
IL not much rust on it ..I have a 95 Chevy 1 ton from southern IL on rust on it .there are cars in the junk
yard in so IL that are better than what is on the road up here...my 60 rambler super came from down there
my 77 hornet cam from Mississippi on rust at all .....I went and looked at a car and I started lafing you
did not have to open the door to role the window down .......Don
Quote from: thereverendbill on April 05, 2011, 12:45:00 AM
one of the drawbacks to moving back to PA from utah is that you's should fail an inspection if you have rust on your car any bigger than the size of a quarter or any jagged edges (never seen rust make a smooth edge). on the flipside in utah as long as you have the usual brakes, lights, horn, wipers and pass the I/M test your on the road .... no body needed :P
WV is the same way except the car will fail for any visible rust hole, even a pin hole. I keep travel to a minimum in the winter to avoid the salt.
I guess what it boils down to is maintnence...My truck was not very well taken care of...I dont think the poor thing ever saw a car wash before I got it!
Quote from: ericarmstrong on April 07, 2011, 12:58:00 AM
Quote from: thereverendbill on April 05, 2011, 12:45:00 AM
one of the drawbacks to moving back to PA from utah is that you's should fail an inspection if you have rust on your car any bigger than the size of a quarter or any jagged edges (never seen rust make a smooth edge). on the flipside in utah as long as you have the usual brakes, lights, horn, wipers and pass the I/M test your on the road .... no body needed :P
WV is the same way except the car will fail for any visible rust hole, even a pin hole. I keep travel to a minimum in the winter to avoid the salt.
I have an ace up my sleeve these days ...... an inspection guy who likes to have a few socailables when inspection time comes as long as i am bring and leaving the rest when I leave ;D
yeah we have all those same road salt/ rust issues here in VT as well (see the pics on my project post). I used to have a "lick and stick" insection station but the state cracked down hard a year or two ago, lots of guys lost there inspection licenses and all the shops now are quite serious. which brings me to a silly story.
- a week or two ago my buddy showed up at the garage in his 1993 honda civic, 240k "just got my car inspected" he said.
"sweet" i replied as I went closer to take a look. "looks kind of funny"
"i took a picture of my friends with my cell phone, emailed it to myself, printed it out and taped it too my windshield!! ha ha i think i can get away with it for at least a little while" he bragged
"cool, except it expired in february...."
Ontario is just as bad.
People ask a fortune for rusted out crap.
I guess I got it pretty good here in Divide Co....no emissions, no rust inspections, no nothing....And it shows!!...this has got to be the beater car capitol of the country....alot of cars out here are literally held together with duct tape and bungee cords....Its all good though cuz my truck is one of them ;D
I'm from Dearborn, outside of Detroit. Inspections? What are those? Emmissions? 20% of the cars driving in the motor city don't even have insurance, that number maybe higher.
Very rarely, do I see anything AMC on the roads here; I think most have rusted away or worn out. A few years ago I would always find an Eagle in the junkyard, I haven't had any luck recently.
Should have "hoarded" while I could! :amc:
im from so. il. and as far as i know we dont do inspections. or my dmv is lazy lol i had a chevette once that you had to hold your feet up or rest them on a 2x4 cause the floor was rusted out lol
We appreciate the sentiments. Imagine the work it takes to find an Eagle in this state as most all of them have rotted frames and were junked. Don't forget the weather's impact on the roads either, 4x4 is excellent but potholes are still rough on the car.
Its hard enough finding solid Eagles here in Colorado I cant even imagine how hard it is up there.
I found a 1981 AMC Eagle Sport in a junkyard in Detroit. It spent it's life in Hamtramck (outside of Detroit) Not too bad of shape! Can't believe it! Trying to get as much as possible off it; may try and get the front clip, if I ever might need it (I hope not)
They won't sell you the whole thing?
I appreciate it!!! NE Ohio cars are VERY hard to keep decent....I can honestly say though that only one car I have ever had has ended up with more rust than it started...my 01 Continental developed some on the doors, but all the others usually got better. I am very particular with keeping them washed. My Eagle definitely has some cancer...a lot of it was fixed when in PA, but I still have to fix a few things. I would love to not drive it in this crap...but it is also one of the best winter cars I have ever driven...so...yeah, it gets driven. If I ever bought a pristine one like Prafeston's old Woodie...I would reserve that to look nice...mine is more of a workhorse. I really need like 5 cars, lol.
A little bit late, but what we lose in rust, we trade off in no Emissions checks. though it's defiantly not a fair trade.
Quote from: youngkyle on February 02, 2014, 10:20:37 PM
A little bit late, but what we lose in rust, we trade off in no Emissions checks. though it's defiantly not a fair trade.
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