# Could a Car Be Made (Body Panels) From Bronze? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 14, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-car-be-made-body-panels-from-bronze/477113 "2008-12-14T14:34:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-car-be-made-body-panels-from-bronze/477113/41 "2008-12-15T18:45:54Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > From here: [http://www.autoobserver.com/2007/02/saturn-gms-best-defense-against-toyota.html](http://www.autoobserver.com/2007/02/saturn-gms-best-defense-against-toyota.html) > > From: [GM reorganization may be end of road for Saturn](http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-fi-saturn4-2008dec04,0,1052210.story) Meh, my specific News Release about making profit in one year is clearly a better source that “GM says Saturn never made a profit.” They still made over 2 million of them, it’s _a mass-produced car_. Hell, GM itself hasn’t made a profit in a while. I guess that “car thing” just is a bad idea, eh?:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-car-be-made-body-panels-from-bronze/477113/42 "2008-12-15T19:38:31Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > You do realize that video is a joke…don’t you. Give me a little credit. And a funny joke at that. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-car-be-made-body-panels-from-bronze/477113/43 "2008-12-15T20:15:22Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Hell, GM itself hasn’t made a profit in a while. I guess that “car thing” just is a bad idea, eh?:rolleyes: I think this is the key point here. Bit unreasonable to expect Saturn to make a profit when no other GM division does. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-car-be-made-body-panels-from-bronze/477113/44 "2008-12-16T04:29:24Z")
Is somebody researching a steampunk novel here or what? Why would you want to? ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-car-be-made-body-panels-from-bronze/477113/45 "2008-12-16T13:19:30Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > IME, the phosphating proces _is_ part of rustproofing as the phospate is bonded to the metal, not only to ensure a surface for the ecoat to stick, but also to make a “hard candy shell” around the body to protect against anything that manages to get through the paint and ecoat layers. I hadn’t realized that. I’d always viewed our zinc phosphate bath as just a cleaning solution (which it also partially is). Of course not being content to be ignorant about a key process in my livlihood, I went and talked to one of our paint guys, and yeah: it serves as a coating, aids adhesion of the ecoat, and I forgot to ask about the self-healing and whether it sticks to bronze. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-car-be-made-body-panels-from-bronze/477113/46 "2008-12-16T14:35:00Z")
Salesman: “Here’s a nice one…a 20015 Pontaic “Bronzetta”-only 12,00 miles” Customer: “Whay is it green?” Salesman: “ITs bronze-nice patina, what do you think?” Customer: “I really like the shiney one over there” Salesman: “Oh, thats a Delorean-it is stainless steel” Customer: “I’ll take it” ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-car-be-made-body-panels-from-bronze/477113/47 "2008-12-16T14:47:59Z")
> [@Carson\_O\_Genic](#): > > Guess I’m a dinosaur too. You are, but so am I–I misspoke. GMAW is now called MIG; SMAW is, as you note, stick welding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-car-be-made-body-panels-from-bronze/477113.md?page=2)