<VV> Automotive Cancer WAS Strut rod battle

[Shelrockbored at aol.com]

Sorry if this upsets you.  As was stated elsewhere the term "cancer"  when 
applied to automotive bodies means something more than just rust.  It  
usually refers to an automobile body which has serious holes in it due to  rust.  
Some damage can be repaired, some cannot.  I would think more  than just 
twice (and do a lot more than just think) before I purchased  a Corvair 
convertible which had, "run when parked"  and sat for a  number of years if it was 
on Long Island.  
 
Automotive cancer is, however a slang term.  One could gather a  number of 
people in a room and ask them to define a slang term and one would not  get 
the same definition twice.
 
Again, sorry if it upset you.
 
Steve Sassi
Long Island Corvair
 
Postscript:  We of Long Island (L.I.) have enormous bodies  of salt water 
no more than twenty miles away from us at any point on L.I.,  so automotive 
cancer is a very serious issue.
 
SVS 
 
 
In a message dated 5/15/2013 10:18:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jon at jonwoolf.com writes:

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Now, a request.... most of us have had someone  close to us battling with 
cancer. Sometimes losing that horrible  fight.  If you wish to talk about 
your 'vair's rust here, is it  really necessary to describe it as 
'Cancer?' There is no comparison  between a person's struggle with a 
terrible disease and a patch of rust in  an old car, and I know it jolts 
me to see the word used so frequently and  so loosely.  Just one man's  
opinion.
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