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Old 01-15-2018, 01:01 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by wdb View Post
The Neon would be perfect. Looks like a lemon.
Agree. The neon is only $400 off the initial budget, comes in colors that could turn into a theme of some kind with little labor (words like "bee" "stinger" "bumble" come to mind but also various "taxi" and "cabbie" references... maybe an Uber killer cab theme). I think they came OEM with good suspension parts of a subcompact too. With some love, this car could do a lot of laps, be hypermiled and run an extra fuel tank. It could kill faster cars with steady long range reliability... a very "ecomodder" strategy to do well in the race.

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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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