Looking for a car for months

>ideally I'd get a old truck but salt killed them all.
At what point do you regard a car as killed by salt? Some of my friends are so picky that even a small amount of rust on the exterior bodywork makes that car undrive-able for them.

>only want to spend like 3k max
But doesn't that usually mean the reason they are selling it for under 3K is because it just barely passed mandatory testing last time? So the next time it is tested, it will probably fail?

When every ad says
>frame needs welding
it's as good as dead, which is near all of them pre '90.

This frame doesn't need welding. So OP would buy it for 3K????

3k civic

Pretty much in the same boat but with 1500 budget, Camry would be a dream car but too taxed out the ass usually

no you fuckin puss i just dropped all my savings on a project car i barely even looked at it lifes too short

>everything is shit because this is the salt belt
Then rinse off the salt.

There've been plenty of past Veeky Forums threads describing easy methods how people get rid of salt during the "salt season".

>So OP would buy it for 3K????
Not OP, but seeing that makes me run away like a scaredy cat.

does washing it reverse the 20+ years of metal lost due to rust from the previous owner?