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You are so lucky to live in Florida and find cars with very little rust. I live in the Midwest- lots of rust, but still lots of fun


You would be surprised to find out this is exactly backwards. Our Florida cars are pretty rusty, and hard to find. The salt air on the ocean and gulf sides takes its toll, and even inland, we get so much rain and humidity, the cars are pretty rusty. Plus, Florida is a pretty young state as far as being populated, so it isn't like the west, where people moved there in the early part of the century and took cars with them.

You live in the place where all of the good stuff is. Everytime I see some deal on Ebay, it is either in the midwest, or someplace like Oregon or Washington State. My dream is to travel those states when I retire, with a car hauler, and pick up some of these cars.

We have had to travel to Georgia to get my Son's '29 and my '39, and we are looking at another '29 in Georgia right now. The cars there are pretty good.

I thought the same thing when we moved to Florida, about the rust-free cars, but got a real wake up call after we were here. Plus, there aren't barns and stuff here where old cars are hiding.


Don