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• Fiat 242
  ...and reliability. A little 'less good for the body, particularly subject to rust. In France collected success with the French trademark.
  1 KB (229 words) - 09:18, 19 September 2009
• Scapin Bike
  ...to make the stainless steel frames resistant with time to corrosion and to rust, externally and internally. A.W.P. (All Weather Proof) is in reality a trip
  1 KB (202 words) - 23:19, 16 August 2008
• Hydrolastic
  ...assis]] or [[subframe]] replacement. Even welding the sub-frame to repair rust damage typically required the system to be drained. The only way to re-pre
  2 KB (275 words) - 00:13, 8 August 2009
• Lancia Montecarlo
  ...d to fend off rust. The firewall and wheel wells are common locations for rust. Rusted floor pans are a major cause of early Scorpion/Montecarlo demise. Any car with the handling and rust problems solved, should be worth considerably more than a stock car. The e
  7 KB (1,061 words) - 16:16, 6 December 2010
• Alfa Romeo Alfa 6
  ...aced every few months.{{Fact|date=July 2007}} The Alfa 6's reliability and rust issues, coupled with its relatively small production, mean it is now a very
  6 KB (797 words) - 15:07, 22 October 2009
• Alfa Romeo 33
  ...o became equally well-known for its unreliable electrics and tendencies to rust (a frequent complaint on Italian cars in general at the time). ...rmance and sophistication. Late production 33s also do not suffer from the rust problems of their ancestors, as their frames are galvanized in the manner A
  6 KB (825 words) - 08:59, 22 October 2009
• De Tomaso Pantera
  ...that safety cage engineering was not very well understood in the 1970's. Rust-proofing was non-existent in the early 1970s (not only on the Pantera) and
  4 KB (664 words) - 10:13, 26 May 2009
• Firestone
  ...speeds, due to water seeping under the tread, which caused the belting to rust and the treading to separate. Joan Claybrook, who was the Administrator of
  4 KB (605 words) - 20:43, 13 March 2009
• Lancia Monte Carlo
  Above all else, rust is the number one problem facing these cars. A rust free Monte Carlo or Scorpion is truly a remarkable find.
  7 KB (944 words) - 12:59, 7 October 2009
• Kevlar
  ...mendous strength, and is heat and cut resistant. Para-aramid fibers do not rust or corrode, and their strength is unaffected by immersion in water. When wo
  5 KB (712 words) - 23:29, 3 July 2009
• Fiat Ritmo
  ...ctrical problems. Few Ritmos survive; they were hit hard by the infamous "rust-bug" which afflicted most Italian cars of the 1970s and 1980s thanks to the ...t, the car failed to make much impact elsewhere in the world. The severe [[rust]] and unreliability problems for which the car was infamous, led to Fiat's
  9 KB (1,292 words) - 15:24, 15 June 2010
• Lancia
  14 KB (2,135 words) - 10:41, 5 March 2017
• Supermini car
  ...find homes elsewhere because it had such a notorious reputation for being rust-prone. Other successful superminis from the 1970s included the [[Volkswagen
  6 KB (853 words) - 08:43, 8 October 2009
• Hand brake
  A parking brake cable which is unused for a long period of time may [[rust]] and seize, so that the brake will not be able to be actuated when it is e
  8 KB (1,350 words) - 00:20, 22 February 2011
• Alfa Romeo Sprint
  The Alfa Romeo Sprint has been criticized about rust and poor build quality.{{By whom|date=July 2009}} They were built in a then
  8 KB (1,193 words) - 16:09, 22 October 2009
• Fiat Tipo
  ...ck]]. The car was made entirely out of [[galvanized]] body panels to avoid rust, and was built on a completely new Fiat platform, that was later used on Fi
  8 KB (1,143 words) - 16:03, 2 November 2009
• Alfa Romeo Alfasud
  ...s (especially the early ones) had a strong reputation for suffering from [[rust]], possibly due to sub-standard [[steel]] traded with the [[Soviet Union]]
  9 KB (1,203 words) - 22:42, 12 December 2016
• Lancia Beta
  ...ate water drainage channels led to the Beta gaining a reputation for being rust-prone, particularly the 1st Series vehicles (built from 1972–75). The cor
  19 KB (2,841 words) - 01:39, 12 December 2011
• Demolition Derby
  ...and private owners, usually for less than [[US dollar|$500]], though some rust-free [[1974]]-[[76]] [[Chevrolet Impala]] [[Sedans]] and [[station wagon]]s
  10 KB (1,521 words) - 21:32, 26 September 2009
• Dirt track racing
  Many obsolete race vehicles that were left in barns to rust are being restored to their former glory. The restored race vehicles are be
  19 KB (3,038 words) - 10:55, 14 December 2008

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