When steel is manufactured, a portion of scrap steel, is added to the
furnace... therefore, steel already has rust in it internally and will
rust from the inside towards the outside .... No car is rust
free .....
Bill
I was always under the impression that any rust would just be burned
off in the process.
I used to work in a steel mill. There is NO residual rust in automotive
steels. For that matter, todays steel has more corrosion resistance than
that of years past. If there is one fault, it would be that it is much
thinner in gauge than in the cars of yore. In the late seventies before
being bought by Chrysler, AMC used electro-galvanized steel on every exposed
panel. Not sure how well they held up.
Rick Knoble
'85 300 CD
'87 190 DT
