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Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm
The cars, if imported, would have to meet certain US safety standards regardless of when they were made. On an island where you are no more than 50 miles from the ocean, I can imagine the rust is everywhere in those cars, so a bit of removal would be needed at the minimum. I remember transiting through GITMO on my way out to the ship in 2000, and even the steel door frames at the air terminal were eaten up by rust. Humidity+salt air+temperature, and you've got all the makings.
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No necessarily true.... When I was a kid there was 2 people in town, NY, one with
a '69 chevelle, and another with a '66 Chevy, both people washed and waxed
those cars all the time. They also drove them all winter..... A lot of, for lack of
the best term, Latin American, people do a lot of cleaning on their cars, fuss
over every inch of the car's appearance. They did another story on the news
last night, and again the old cars were in the story, they were all shiny and
clean.... Keep it waxed, and even if the paint is chipped, or imperfect, and
you can keep the rust away.... Those guys had kept those old cars up to the
late 90's when they retired and moved away.....
There are a lot of really cool secrets to the current way of life in Cuba, and
to the keeping up of those cars we are not going to know looking in from
the outside as we do now....
California has lots of good condition old cars, and they run around all the time,
and California is pretty close to the ocean, and the cars have almost no rust....
Not like in snow areas where they salt the roads....
As for Chinese parts... A lot of people may not remember the news stories of years
ago, as american parts manufacturers closed up, the machinery to make all that
stuff was sold off at really good prices to companies wiling to start up and make
the same stuff in China, and India, and a few others.....
Auto-Zone may just be the Walmart version of auto parts stores..... I have trouble
trusting them after seeing the number of electrical parts me and brother have
had with their stuff..... I went back to OEM pretty quick, brother liked the fact
that stuff was guaranteed forever, even though he had to replace it each year....
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