Re: Galvanized body panels

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com> wrote:

Hairy green toads from Mars made Ti Kan say:

>I heard this, too, and found it wierd. My '85 VW Golf was galvanized,
>as were all '85 VWs here. Strange that an $8500 Golf would be dipped,
>but a $35000 5000Q wouldn't be....

Huh? A galvanized '85 Golf? US only?
I know for a fact that '84, '85 and '90 Golfs (did body repairs on all of
these) were not galvanized here.
They were painted very well though. Only the extremely abused Golfs rust-
my neighbour's '84's a case in point. Spent all of its life outdoors and in
our salty winters- NO rust. Very good cars qualitywise. The Golf Mk.1
('74-'83) wasn't as well-built... '84-'90 VWs can regularly be found in
as-new condition here, something you certainly can't say of their
competitors...

Tom

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 Tom Nas                                          Zeist, The Netherlands
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