Off topic ~ 1969 c/10

[vwnate1]

So you were warned , no whining if you're reading this.....

Anyways , here we are three years later and I finally got another cab for this old thing , go look at the progress report in the '67 ~ '72 Forums , you'll be shocked at how bad the old cab was , I tolja so but no one listened .

 

[ccharr]

Sure was a lot of stuff there. Good to hear they are making some progress.

 

[Lakeroadster]

Rust Never Sleeps

Ya know Nate I have often wondered if there was more to the rust issues on the 2nd Gen C10's?

My dad had a '72 C20 he bought brand new. A beautiful two tone orange and white lwb with the aluminum and black lower side mouldings. Dad's truck rusted in the normal areas (rockers, rear wheel wells, cab corners, etc.) but in other areas too, so bad the seat belts pulled out of the floor and the trailing arms buckled.

Maybe something different in the way the steel in this era trucks was prepped or painted, or ?

We did live in Ohio though where on a quiet night you could here the Mopars rusting

John

 

[vwnate1]

Gm & rust

Well ;

When you're building Vehicles , you jig up and weld the various sheet metal and sub assemblies then you dip the whole unpainted body in a vat of Phosphorus Acid , this cleans all the corrosive flux , grease , oily finger prints etc. off so you can then paint it .

GM decided to skip this step then in 1973 , they decided to use much cheaper and thinner sheet metal .

A shame really but they were not building Collectors Items , they were building cheap work trucks so they simply didn't care .