Miata Mailing List: September 1992, Message #69
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Subject: re:extra space
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>>I noticed a month or so ago, while I was rotating tires and had the spare out,
>>that there is a significant little cubby hole hidden behind the spare.  You
>>have to take the spare out to get to it, but it's a good place to tuck a small
>>tool bag or something you want to have with you, but don't use too often.
>>Thought I'd mention it incase it hasn't been found by everyone else yet.
>I believe that this space also exists on the left side of the trunk, behind the
>sheilding for the fuel tank.

I assumed that the space was for the battery, before they moved into the 
trunk proper.  The story goes that the battery was to go behind the
passenger seat, (near the center of the car for lower moment of inertia).

I figured that they moved the battery but forgot to make the gas tank bigger.
It seems to me that there is no good reason that the gas tank could not be
made larger to take up that space.

Be careful with that space.  When I was replacing my shocks with koni's,
I dropped the nuts that hold the top of the shocks in there.  Having to
get them out of there was not an experience I want to go through again.
It was not meant to hold things, and is not lined properly for it.
But a small tool kit (not individual tools) should fit nicely.

Tom Tkacik
tkacik@hobbes.cs.gmr.com