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Originally Posted by William

Cracks me up when restorers go overboard carefully painting their frames.

This is a photo of the former AO Smith frame plant in Milwaukee. Drove past it literally hundreds of times, including the dead of winter. Frames stacked outside, exposed to the elements long before they were assembled into a car.

If you wondered how your frame got so rusty, probably started here.

Still happens today...open flatbed trucks or open rail cars transport truck frames stacked every day of the week. Frame coatings today are likely much more durable than back then though.