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Old 12-03-2014, 09:17 AM   #10 (permalink)
elhigh
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I subbed this so hard. The old Nash Metro is one of my all time favorite cars, and one of the original economy cars. It is a thing of old school beauty.

Being so old school, there are lots of little aero mods to be made that will pull your power requirements down. Maybe not into the range of a single Etek (nice score finding an original B&S one, BTW), but any improvement is an improvement. I chance to know that the underside is about as smooth as the craters of the moon, for instance.

It's also nice that you have such an obviously old tiny car. Nobody will expect it to be fast. It is its own apologist.
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