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Old 05-25-2020, 04:01 PM   #522 (permalink)
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 M_a_t_t View Post
Usually what you see as bad paint is just faded and/or flaking clear coat.
I agree with that. This was about heat gain more than paint. If my paint had also been worse than it was, I would still have done this. Missing from my photos were the three small rust spots I cleaned-up before clear coat. I don't want a "new" look. I like my weird performance art piece of a car. But I don't want outright rot of the body panels either.
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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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