1. this was Los Angeles so the panel did eventually rust but I didnt have to deal with snow and road salt

2. when i got the car from pops it already had 160k on the clock so I was really just driving it to the ground

but

2a. i got it to 220k miles and sold it to go to college and whats funny is that the person who bought it totaled it in a month. Even funnier is that I ran into the car 7 years later in a totally different city HUNDREDS Of miles from where it first lived. guess it was revived. Old Toyotas/Hondas keep going man.