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Aug 26, 2007 | 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by havi

My wife wants to move south, I'm starting to agree....slap me.

Not to hijack, but I grew up in northern Illinois, where they stockpile salt in huge beehive-looking things. The county road workers get paid by the tons they lay down, I think. It was an annual ritual to grind and re-bondo the eyebrows on my mother's '58 Chevy. My grandfather used to collect real estate signs to use for floorboards. I tried a Saab Sonett which was plastic bodied to cope with it, but it found the steel sooner or later. So I said the heck with this and moved south. Albuquerque doesn't usually salt unless there's an ice storm, they lay down cinders and crushed volcanic rock. It will chip paint but this is one or two mornings a year, and I just call in sick those days

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You'd find you miss the green from up there, but everytime you get under your cars you'll smile!

Aug 26, 2007 | 07:45 PM

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Brian_B

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The only vehicles we see like that around here are the

s who just moved down here.

I see a few in salvage yards like that. Doesn't seem like there is much to salvage though.

The rusty pic in question....Before I touched the springs:

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Aug 26, 2007 | 09:00 PM

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eman92082

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I worked in the Michigan Auto plants for a few years. So I know the salt drill.... Having said that, in San Diego, rust is that annoying red stuff you just brush aside before you get to work.....

Aug 26, 2007 | 09:14 PM

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From: springfield il

yep i have had three people including my cousin here tell me that granada discs will go on our spindles then this old timer on another site startin with an h answered a thread saying yes and supposedeley 79-83 discs will fit the 57 till like 64 or 66 spondles . thats why this thread got started as i am a notorious tight a-- and was wondering if this was so and what the differences were on the spindles from 53-56 to 57 to 64 as i was once again gonna go rummaging as i know where there are some vehicles sittin ' and try and save myself some cash . my cousin has a 53 and one of his bosses at the coke dist . supposedley did the granada thing and billy's gonna do it to his . im waiting on the outcome of this . he just happened to have a granada sittin from when he was awee bit younger with one of my ol' " slightly modified " 289's in it and a 3 speed with overdrive . well maybe someone will eventually confirm or say bull pucky . you ever heard the sayin' sit around and watch the cars rust ? yep thats from us further in the north brian , and it's true ! sometimes you can even hear it !

Aug 26, 2007 | 09:25 PM

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The saying down here is: "This is ford country...on a quiet night you can hear a chevy rust."

That sounds interesting if the rotors will fit. You may start a new trend. With the correct hub caps, no one would know the bolt pattern is wrong.