Miata Mailing List: March 1993, Message #75
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Subject: Re: Tim sez "MORE POWER"
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In message <01GVZSEC7ZDU8WWFW6@INET.D48.LILLY.COM> to Multiple recipients of
list  on Fri, 19 Mar 1993 13:36:47 -0500, Kris
Eckols  writes:
> be a 4-banger, double overhead cam." My 1970 Fiat 
> Spider had that. Boy, I love my Miata, though. It's
> more fun to drive a Miata on the weekend, instead 
> of being under the hood of a "Fix It Again Tony."

Heh, heh -- nice acronym.  I've heard that German auto factory workers get a
real kick out seeing a car with that name, 'cause when they see some assembly
go by that has "F-I-A-T" chaulked on it, they know that assembly has been
judged to have "Failure In All Parts."  (I think "Teile" is German for
"parts;" the other three words sound very similar to English.)

Seriously, though, the 124 Sport was a nice little car, and couldn't have been
worse for maintenance than contemporary British cars.  In a recent Moss Motors
catalog, one of the employees opines that what makes owning an old British car
so special is that "it's nice to have a car that *needs you*."  No argument
here.  >8^)
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