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California98Civic
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Location: Coastal Southern California
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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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Originally Posted by 19bonestock88 View Post
I wanted to recolor my car white, leave the mods black and add lime green striping... you know, “Ion Green Line”, but a repaint is likely never gonna happen...
When it became clear that the roof paint was quite far gone, I decided not even to maintain the paint in the traditional ways, much less repaint or touch up the original coat. I wash the car by wiping off the morning mist water that settles on it sometimes. And I periodically treat the coat with Boiled Linseed Oil--cheaper and more "eco" I suppose than the chemicals people usually buy. Slowly, the paint is deteriorating, and I am fine with that. The oil hides clearcoat flaking in a couple small places.
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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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