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[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This might be on purpose.

I knew a guy who wanted his car to look like a rolling pile of rust on the outside, as if the car had been left to rot outside for years, to look "authentic", but the underpinnings were perfectly sound and the engine was a modern, fuel-injected, computer-controlled unit. So he had his car spray-painted over the rust and the grime with some sort of protective coating, so that he would look permanently old but never degrade further.

[-] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

+1 I’m a fan of the “patina coat” on older vehicles.

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't it a Trabant, fampus for plasticplastic body panels?

[-] tty5@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nope. FSM Syrena

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I miss when cars looked like they could take an atomic bomb.

this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2025
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