the main thing with italian car's from the 70's was the rust, so all the nice alfa romeo, lancia, fiat and others used soviet steel. it was sort of a trade in kind for the togliatti auto plant in samara as a down payment for some kind of joint venture. but the steel was awful and of very low quality with a lack of alloys and then throw in the communist dominated unions in italy at the time which also didn't exactly help with quality control either. or that may be a separate issue and more just another problem altogether. mostly because rusting was really just limited to the italians and russians, plenty of complete garbage got made in germany, the uk and everywhere else that was rusty garbage.
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