Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferraris & Rain

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

Well......

I don't know about "Enzo not giving a rat's posterior", but I was in the car biz
for 4 decades.

Fact of the matter.....    Cars prior to the mid-70's did not (Japan, Euro, US)
have any significant rust protection.  Period.  It was not because they did not
care, but they basically didn't know how.  There were a couple decades worth of
experiments in wax coating, primers, undercoating, and various zinc coatings.
Some worked, some did not.

Bottom line:  Newer cars (regardless of continent) are damn near rust proof.
Old cars will disintegrate while you watch.

I have a zero rain, zero rust 308GT4.  It will stay that way because I realize
that one rain drop will convert my toy into an orange rust puddle in
my driveway.

I am looking for a later cheap F-car (maybe 400i) that will survive
actually driving
in normal conditions.  I'd like to do Route 66 in a car that I won't worry about
parking in Motel 6 in a desert rain storm.  (The GT4 would not be there in the
morning...  and that would not be due to cLyDe's ghetto philosophy, but rust!)

Hans.

On 1/17/08, Tom Reynolds <kjtar [at] cox.net> wrote:
> As Rob and others on the list can attest to, Enzo apparently didn't give a 
> rat's posterior about the road cars.  As long as they sold with sufficient 
> income to provide an operating budget for the race team, he was happy.
> I haven't really thought about what criteria I consider when I think "modern 
> car",  I guess I just consider them on an individual basis.
> Best regards,
> Tom