stainless is only stainless because the high chrome and nickel content forms an oxygen-tight oxide layer on top of the material when exposed to air.. if you look in a scrapyard at some stainless scrap covered in wet leaves or simmilar decomposing plant matreial.. you will find that the stainless corrodes under the wet leaves... "rusting" stainless looks black and very sad.. now on a showcar i am sure that a painted stainless fueltank will have a service life of several hundred years... so paint ahead.. but if you shoot it with somthing like rhino-liner and it lifts enough to trap water.. you could see corrosion
but to keep stainless uncorroded it should be left clean, and exposed to air.
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