In article <4825b408$0$30507$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
Don R <don@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On a personal note, my 1975 Honda Civic, bough new during the last gas
> crunch, got 30 mpg no matter where I drove it.

Yep.

I had a bunch of 79 Civics. Great cars. Manual choke worked great.
And you couldn't kill the engines. Know when it's time to add oil?
When you take a hard right turn and the light flickers on the dash. Oil
changes? Naw, the car does that itself. Just add as needed.

The front frame member, though, now that was another matter. At least
Honda owned up to it and replaced it free of charge, even years later.
THEY understood that was cheaper than paying for the lawsuits and
getting a bad rep.

Same with the gas tanks that rusted underneath the metal straps.