WOW. Read this!!!!!

dmich2 · Mar 22, 2011

My step son stumbled upon this listing and read it to me. A 100% rust free Alpine!?!?!?! I had to look at it and read it myself. Seller posts some fuzzy pictures, but it sure looks like rust in the trunk....not to be confused with junk in the truck....or maybe both.

http://www.easyautosales.com/used-cars/1964-Roadster-12997836.html

Dennis

RootesRooter · Mar 22, 2011

I couldn't see any rust.

Are there ANY digital cameras out there that take pictures this bad anymore? Even first-generation cell phones were better.

Eleven · Mar 22, 2011

Are those 3 iron golf club marks on the right side?

Bill Blue · Mar 22, 2011

Some of the photos are okay. In those, I could see rust but no rust through. I guess it depends on your definition of "rust free".

But it sure has been beat to hell.

Bill

sunbeam74 · Mar 22, 2011

Errr... I am thinking a jealous girlfriend may have been involved.

Steve

Ron67Alpine · Mar 22, 2011

sunbeam74 said:
Errr... I am thinking a jealous girlfriend may have been involved.

Steve

or wife...Tiger???

65beam · Mar 22, 2011

wow

if you were to dip that body you would find a rust free car. that means no rust thru. doug at tiger auto has always said that if it's rust free it's probably been totalled. we have bought a few alpines from california and found no rust but he has always found many dents, bent frame rails, holes drilled to secure body filler etc. this car fits that description. no rust but beat to death!

sunbeam74 · Mar 23, 2011

Eric,

That sounds like a description for race cars! Typically no rust but lots of dents. Of course, that's typically the contact they received during races.

Then, once the owner winds down his racing it is pushed in to the garage and left there for 40 years.

Steve

britbeam · Mar 23, 2011

Yes this must be the car Tiger was driving at some point.

AlpineII · Mar 23, 2011

With the exception of a dime-sized hole in the bottom of the battery box, the Series II I restored was a California car that was truly rust free. There were a lot of doubts about that until it was completely stipped to bare metal everywhere. But there were 40 year of door-dings and it took a lot of panel beating to get it to the point I could have it painted without any filler other than lead in the seams.

P. Scofield · Mar 27, 2011

Well, after listing my Series III on e-bay, I was schooled by all the idiots out there that think rust free means not even a spec of surface rust. I'm not sure what planet they are from or how they got access to our internet!!

agmason · Mar 28, 2011

If I had a car that had surface rust I wouldn't list it as "rust free". Visible surface rust is not "rust free" by any stretch of the imagination. Nor would I list a unibody car as having a "frame off" restoration.