• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      If you want to hide dirt, go with paisley, or something comparable.

      Honestly, nothing is better at hiding a stain than a Hawaiian shirt, that same principle can be used anywhere.

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        Some car manufacturers have used WWI-style dazzle camouflage to make it harder to photograph prototype cars.

        If it’s hard for a viewer to even make out the car’s lines, probably hard to make out anything on the car too.

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          You know what, fuck it, I might consider that, given that my daily driver is starting to become a bit of a project car anyway. Buying a Chinese MPPS clone was a mistake, now I want a front-mount intercooler and a hybrid turbo and I already know what car’s injectors would easily spray more than mine if I raise the rail pressure which I can do no problem since I have a CP3 R90 high pressure fuel pump and…

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      I like colorful cars more, I really noticed how bland they were on the east coast of the us recently. White, grey, black. Almost all of them.

      On the other hand, people seem bizarrely obsessed with washing their cars. I get the idea of removing salt if you live where that’s a thing, but otherwise I only wash my car maybe yearly. I just don’t care that much.

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      We have a papyrus white Trabant, and it’s the exact colour of dried dirt. Never looks dirty.