I've decided to put a light trailer hitch on the Civic.
This opens up other possibilities:
No immediate plans. Will report back if anything newsworthy happens.
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Also, I finished cleaning up the plastic headlight lenses.
I hit them a couple of times with standard paint rubbing compound (Turtle wax... the red stuff) using a small buffer, followed by some lighter polishing compound I had laying around for "light oxidation removal" of boat fiberglass. They're not quite as good as new (that would require wet sanding to take off the damage from stone chips). But it's a big improvement. I'll post pics when it quits raining.