Pontiac Stocker

[Dan Bennett]

Originally Posted by dennis dunlap

Can a car realy rust that much since 1969 in oklahoma ,,, thats sad !!!!!

A friend of mine bought an identical car in Missouri just south of St. Louis. I've never seen another automatic.

The Missouri DOT has always had a love affair with salt - after a snowfall melts and dries up there's a thick white dust that hangs around until the next heavy rain.

And about this time they liked calcium chloride even more, which likes to get into body seams and stay forever.

I wouldn't doubt that this is the same car considering it's only a few hundred miles away and a whole bunch of the original musclecars around here ended up in the same condition before I lost track of them. If the car was a daily driver (and most were) they took the full impact of the chemical assault.

Others I remember for sale that I passed on because they were in roughly the same shape as the Firebird: 69 Z28 with four wheel disks (don't know if they were dealer installed or factory), 70 Chevelle LS5, 70 Chevelle SS454 LS6 El Camino, 70 Duster 340 4 spd, and Charger 500 with 440. Note that none of these were junkyard hulks, as they were all being driven at the time.

Makes you sick, doesn't it? I'm sure others in states that use a lot of chemicals have much the same story.