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California98Civic
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Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe
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90 day: 66.42 mpg (US)

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Notable Road Vehicles in Film and TV

A thread for video of notable cars, truck, motorcycles, and any other "road vehicle" found in films or TV shows, ads, or news pieces. They can be OEM or DIY... conceptual, manufactured, or hairbrained--plans or pics of existent vehicles--but not fictional vehicles. So no chitty-chitty-bang-bang, or back tot the future Deloreans or Jetsons flying cars, please.

I thought of this as I tried to find an episode of "PM Magazine" from the 1980s that I remember. That episode featured a DIY Ford that two guys claimed they had modified to get something like 84 MPG. I could not find it. I swear I saw it on the air in the 1980s. Been a long time though, so maybe a unicorn has infected my brain.

Tucker: the Man and the Car (1948 Tucker Torpedo):


Meet "Max" a DIY car claimed to get 100 MPG:

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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.




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