I uhh... wow. Break out the grinders!

"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori) 02/09/2018 at 15:31 • Filed to: The Alfa Doesn't Have A Tag Yet

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It actually looks worse in photos, but holy crap the Alfa’s chassis rail looks like hot garbage!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 15:49

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Damn....welp, there’s nothing for it but for you to fix the chassis rail and then ship it off to me! :/

:P

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 15:49

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I don’t know where you live, but I don’t want to move there.

facw > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 15:54

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Let that go a few more years and you might be able to get David Tracy interested.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/09/2018 at 15:54

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Thats the thing! We can’t figure out how this happened! This car lived in California until 2015 and Oklahoma since. Best we can determine is someone hit something, hard, and... uhhh... then rust? Shits weird. Even weirder that to do the damage you would have had to take out a chunk of the front suspension, which appears to be both intact and original...

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > facw 02/09/2018 at 15:55

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Right? Still some structure there...

someassemblyrequired > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 16:04

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Salt air and bad rustproofing?

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 16:06

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It looks like someone hit something and gouged it open like the side of a boat.

RPM esq. > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 16:11

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It’s on an Alfa right? The rust probably made meaningful progress on the boat over from Italy.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 02/09/2018 at 16:13

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That... actually makes some sense. The whole thing was pushed out (towards the door) and rotated slightly so... yeah. Could have got caught on something or went over a curb with some rebar hanging out...

Spanfeller is a twat > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 16:30

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Holy shit.... A lot of rust...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 17:13

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A grievous wound.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 17:37

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There were drugs transported in the frame rail and that is the wound where they were removed.

shop-teacher > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 17:43

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That, as the saying goes, is not good.

Urambo Tauro > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 02/09/2018 at 18:32

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Seriously, why does rust look so much worse in pictures than it does in person?

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Urambo Tauro 02/09/2018 at 21:37

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At least in this case, dramatic lighting?

Thought it is pretty bad IRL too, just localized.