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Originally Posted by Gaspare
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In a damp climate, rust is a big concern. Ziebart is a company that got started spraying oily sticky rustproofing compound on cars and trucks. My grandfather's garage would undercoat a car for a few hundred dollars in the 1960's, which easily extended the life of the body by 5 or 6 years. (But his top mechanics also died of cancer from the compounds or the cleaners
.) I don't know what the Forces did to Jeeps for undercoating, but likely each one went through the local Ziebart shop for spraying at some stage in the maintenance cycle.