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Originally Posted by tooslow
Maybe. One thing you have to remember though, newer cars with all the polyurethane and plastic are not going to hold up as well over time as the original muscle cars. With them, rust was your biggest enemy, with newer cars, chemical breakdown is the foe. Besides, if you look at the average age of the majority of people on the ZL1 buyers list, how many of them are even going to be alive in forty years?!  |
I need to show you my Dad's '79....
The soft-touch everything has contracted in spots over time and torn itself to shreds. I'm sure he could have done a better job maintaining it...but you've head it many times before -- the reason they opted for some of the polymer materials was for durability...they weren't "cheap", as so many assume.
They'll last. And seeing everything coated underneath from the factory makes me so happy.
