6 hours ago, Patcon said:

The green one's been sitting right there in the grass and snow for 20+ years! I wonder if there is any underside left to the car. Letting cars sit in the grass or dirt seems to destroy them really fast, from my experience

I don't think it snows very often in Dallas, but I'm sure that it rains there. However, you may be right about the underside of the car being rusty. There could be mice that crawled in through the bottom of the car living inside.....and who knows what else lives in the car ? 

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9 hours ago, lonetreesteve said:

I don't think it snows very often in Dallas, but I'm sure that it rains there. However, you may be right about the underside of the car being rusty. There could be mice that crawled in through the bottom of the car living inside.....and who knows what else lives in the car ? 

If you look at the map, that car is West of Wichita Falls. I was thinking it was further into Oklahoma than that.

I have a car that was stored for a number of years in the yard. It is rusty in all kinds of areas that are not normally problem areas. Every year it gets harder to save

On 6/19/2019 at 4:41 PM, grannyknot said:

Guys pay thousands to get that look on their pick ups and here the expensive part of the rat rodding has already been done for you.

Here's one that was made to have that old, weathered look:

Stripes on the louvers interesting


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That doesn't do much for me but I bet it took a lot of work to get it that way.

 I'd have to look under the battery and under the hatch to see if it was done properly.

5 hours ago, ryanotown22 said:

Stripes on the louvers interesting


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Yes, I can't say that I have ever seen that before.

10 hours ago, lonetreesteve said:

Here's one that was made to have that old, weathered look:

Thanks for posting that,  I like the real rust myself, that green Z just reminds me of the antiquing craze back in the 70's.

50 minutes ago, grannyknot said:

Thanks for posting that,  I like the real rust myself, that green Z just reminds me of the antiquing craze back in the 70's.

Real rust versus fake rust.

1 hour ago, lonetreesteve said:

Real rust versus fake rust.

 Top pic looks like Darth Vader is taking the photo.

Never underestimate the rust of the dark side.

Here's the green one's older sister........she has some fake rust too, along with some attitude: