Since we had some rusty Junkyard Finds recently and I just spent a couple of days driving around San Francisco looking at ocean-salt horror-story cars, let's continue with the Toyota Rust theme and check out this frighteningly oxidized San Francisco Cressida.
Cars in the non-mountainous regions of California mostly don't rust much, unless they're air-cooled Volkswagens. Sometimes you'll see old Detroit cars in California with rusted-out trunk floors (from rainwater leaking in during the winter) or rust beneath vinyl tops, but that's about as bad as it gets… unless you live within a few blocks of the ocean. In that situation, you get salt spray kicked up by big waves, plus the constant damp and fog that neighborhoods right on the ocean get. The damage tends to start on top and work its way down. Eventually, a good-running Toyota becomes more of a rusty cheese grater and must be scrapped.
This Cressida has San Francisco N Zone residential parking permits stretching from 1994 through a couple months ago. The Richmond District gets plenty of salt and chilly fog, being one of those SF neighborhoods with summer high temperatures in the 40s.
The owner of this car experimented with several types of rust-covering fillers. This appears to be Sculpey and Rustoleum.
I got so obsessed with documenting the rust "repairs" that I neglected to shoot the interior of this car. The icky Children's Interactive Expo T-shirt as a seat cover is the only interior shot I took.
The 5M engine might still be a runner. Only one way to find out!
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