Re: [T3] Ask and ye shall cut up an unwrecked perfect car

[Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>]

<x-flowed>>  rust free, straight, just needed a motor and pans.

	Eh? Rust free, but needed pans?  I think I saw a lot of VWs 
for sale in Michigan that met that description. ;)

	I'll bet that if you could transport a non-running car across 
the U.S. for free, then very few people anywhere would do major rust 
repair on any but the rarest models.  Basically, if I were shopping 
for a relatively common model VW here in the west, like a Beetle, 
Bus, or Squareback, why on *earth* would I ever touch anything with 
rust?  I could save huge amounts of time and money by shopping for 
something that's never been rusted, and end up with an original car.

	If I lived someplace rusty (which I did for eight years), I 
probably couldn't afford to spend the time and money to fly out to a 
non-rusty place and try my luck spending weeks looking for an 
unrusted car, and have it shipped back.

	No disrespect to those who are doing major rust repairs -- 
more power to them, and I'm all for it.

	Put it all another way -- in any location, I think we only 
cut up and destroy the worst X percent of the cars.  In some places 
(like the western U.S.), even the worst X percent of the cars are in 
far better shape than the worst X percent of cars in a rusty place; 
that's where it gets confusing.  The cost of shipping all of those 
"good" worst cars from the west to other places is just too great, so 
they fall under the knife.

-Greg

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