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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Lucida Sans"> Another common practice
in Florida was to coat all frontal areas with Vaseline. Seems the love bugs were
very bad and this prevented the bug residue from sticking to the
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=robinson46176@gmail.com
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 01, 2019 9:13 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [AT] Big Truck Pickups</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Tom McCahill who wrote for Mechanix Illustrated more than once wrote of the
common practice in Florida, where he was living, of spraying their cars all over
underneath with used motor oil. I recall thinking at the time (early to mid
1950's) that I would think that mechanics would really hate working on those
slimy under-pinnings. Normal leaking oil was bad enough.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_attr dir=ltr>On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 3:30 PM James Peck <<A
href="mailto:jamesgpeck@hotmail.com">jamesgpeck@hotmail.com</A>>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Years
ago I had a publication that advocated coating the interiors of the bottom of
doors and any other lower water holding joint with used motor oil. I did try
it on one car and it seemed to work.<BR><BR>Mike Meulens AT List member (<A
href="mailto:meulenms@gmx.com" target=_blank>meulenms@gmx.com</A>) ; Well,
It'll be a long time before I buy a new pickup at the prices they are at now.
I have a 2010 Silverado with 110,000 on it, and the rust is beginning in all
the suspected spots, the rear wheel well being the main culprit. It'll be a
fender flapper in a couple of years, but as long as it's reliable I'll keep
it. I've heard rumors, not first hand information that body shops are having a
hard time learning how to work on the aluminum body panels. Sure would be nice
to have a truck that doesn't rust out before it's service life is though. You
guys in the south many not have this problem, due to little or no salt ever
being used. What bothers me is that my wife's Camry has 70,000 more
miles on it, gets driven every day in the salty slush, zero rust.<BR><BR>Phil
Auten Texas AT List member (<A href="mailto:pga2@basicisp.net"
target=_blank>pga2@basicisp.net</A>); James, that video of the "empty" toolbox
punching a hole in the > aluminum bed floor of a Ford was faked. Notice
that it is no longer > shown on TV? That is why. GM made a big misjudgement
on that one.<BR><BR>James AT List Member (<A
href="mailto:jamesgpeck@hotmail.com"
target=_blank>jamesgpeck@hotmail.com</A>); I have rented a Home Depot flatbed
>> pickup twice to carry items that would not have fit in a pickup
box.>> I am very impressed with them. The flat beds are probably much
more >> puncture proof than those aluminum ford pickup boxes. There used
to >> be a commercial of someone dropping a tool box into a ford pickup
bed >> and tearing a hole in the
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<DIV>-- <BR><BR>Francis Robinson<BR>aka "farmer"<BR>Central Indiana USA<BR><A
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