Quote Originally Posted by Omegamanic View Post
That says a lot, we had a 6 months old 345 with rust!
To be fair, the 345 was second half seventies production of the DAF77 launched in 1970 with rather typical for the period lacking rust prevention.
A decade later the same models were better protected and even came with a 7 year warranty against rust.
Our ´88 one has the periodic rust inspection and treatment recorded and stamped.

To put the 345 in perspective; even here where the Fiat X1/9 is more common than an MR2 W30!, there is nooooo Alfasud to be found and the 33 successor too is RARE.
The 340/360 is still easily found. There is even the odd 343 with B19 around!!