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MetroMPG · 04-05-2012, 12:21 PM

Hi Joel - welcome to the forum.

You'll want to use an anti-rust spray annually to keep the thing together. These cars were badly designed in a way that lets water (and salty water, from winter roads) into critical structural sheet metal cavities that rust out from the inside. But you know this already!

Where are you in NS? I was just there last week - Halifax & Lunenburg.

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