People who don't drive rust buckets — or maybe don't drive them any longer — can laugh about their nominees for the Rust Bucket Hall of Fame.

And the winners, according to auto industry rust-fighters, auto restorers and body shop operators, are:

• Yugos, any year and everywhere.

• Fiats, no longer sold in the United States.

• All pre-1980 sports cars.

• VWs through the '80s, especially Beetles and Rabbits.

• Japanese imports through much of the '80s, especially early Datsuns, Honda Accords, Datsun 280Zs and Toyota Celicas, Corollas and pickups.

• Chevy Vegas and Caprices.

• Early Ford Aerostars and Dodge Caravans.

• Light trucks, foreign and domestic, especially their tailgates, well into the '90s.

• Land Rovers of the '80s and '90s, especially those with external door hinges and/or spot-welded fenders.