Hi Pete,
I drove our silver Miata out onto the salt. It's in the background in a couple of those pictures.
Immediately after we got home from Bonneville, we had to climb in the Subruban and drive to SoCal for 3 weeks.
By the time we got home from SoCal, the Miata had been sitting in the driveway for 4 weeks, TWO of which were VERY rainy.
I got into the Miata and started it up, but it wouldn't move! I had to run the engine up to about 3K and dump the clutch to break things loose.
The brake rotors were TOTALLY rusty and the brake pads had been rusted in place to the rotors.
One of the rear pads was down to the "squealer" so I replaced the rotors and all of the brake pads, but it took several days of driving before all of the "Crunching" stopped as I was driving.
A couple of days later, it finally rained and I spent over an hour driving around splashing in puddles and driving through the runoff in the gutters.
When things dried out, I put the car up on a buddy's lift and spent an hour with a spray can of Rust Converter and a can of silver Rustoleum paint covering all the rusty spots.
When the car was on the lift, if I rubbed any aluminum or most of the steel and touched my finger to my tongue, I could still taste salt.
If there is a next time... I'll RENT a car !
Tim