[BMWCSRegistry] Rust, the ultimate conspiracy!

[Chester Prudhomme]

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>At 11:42 AM -0500 11/8/06, Paul Schiemer wrote:
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>>This morning I took my CS out for a morning breakfast meeting.
>>Heard a fellow tell a preposterous story that German car makers kept the
>>'treated' cars in country and exported the non-galvanized cars to America.
>>Him telling me this after seeing my car in the car park.
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>>Gave me pause to wonder; if all the Euro cars have rot or not.
>>Certainly rains a lot there, especially England and parts of Germany.
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>>Is there any validity to this claim of his??
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>>Snapped a photo of my car and posted a web page where it can be seen.
>>Should anyone be so interested in such a thing:
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>>http://web.mac.com/paulschiemer/iWeb/Site%204/Welcome.html
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Yes, I've been hearing that one for years now (maybe he was just setting 
you up for a lowball offer for your beautiful CS?). I think the basis 
for this "factoid" is that some of my fellow countrymen here in the US 
don't like Germans rather than knowing anything about German cars and 
the German car industry. But what really lays waste to this claim is 
that in Germany you rarely see older cars like our CS's, tii's, classic 
Beetles, etc. The simple reason? They ALL rusted away years ago! The 
German dealers didn't even offer undercoating as an accessory as did 
many American dealers. My '73 CS was sold new with undercoating and is 
as rustfree as the day it was driven from the showroom floor here in the 
Pacific Northwest. Besides, I thought it was the Italians who were 
behind keeping their "treated" cars in Italy. I'll bet even the Germans 
believe that one is true?!

BTW Paul...................NICE CAR! And it appears that you live in a 
beautiful part of the country for it to be driven.

Chester
'73 CS
'73 tii Alpina