I have a theory...

[Critter]

I have been thinking about this for a few months and I wanted to bounce it off the powers-that-be here on the board. It seams like elsewhere in the country people are tripping over good hardtops. Some people stack up single walls and let their kids use them like a jungle gym while others are so tired of double walls piling up that they are putting them in the wood chipper.

On the flipside some states have a good number of rust free tubs laying around, these people shudder at the idea of fixing floor pans and doorsills and say things like “why don’t you just go get a nice tub and swap everything out?” Yeah right?!?!

It has come to me that rarely do these two hard to find parts coexist. In the Northwest, most body parts look like Swiss cheese but they have all the tops. In the Southwest, you have the nice tubs but the tops/hatches have long since rotted away. Is this a coincidence? It seams that in areas of high humidity you have lots of rust, but the fiberglass stays fairly moisturized. On the other side of the map it is the opposite. Tubs stay in one piece, but the tops crack and disintegrate like a saltine cracker. Does anybody have any thoughts on this? Am I looney? Is this common knowledge and I am just a little slow in the head?