Miata Mailing List: January 1994, Message #169
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   From: siegel@klab.caltech.edu (Micah Siegel)
Subject: To buy or not to buy...(question on specific used Miata)
   Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 01:34:22 -0500

Dear Friends:

I asked some time ago about buying a used '90 or '91 Miata in the
L.A. area.  Several of you have replied with useful advice.  Thanks
for your help!  Please tell me what you think of the following car:

'91 Miata.  44K, Alarm, A/C, but no alloy wheels.  No accidents, no
dings, no mechanical problems.  One car owner, changed oil every 4000
and documented this but didn't do much else for the car.  $10,500.

Downside: Top was slit when car was broken into last year.  Owner had
the top "professionally" stitched, but not replaced.  The owner says
there is no problem with leaks.

Note that the car does NOT have alloy wheels, which is strange because
I thought Package A included a/c and alloy wheels.  Can one buy a/c
without buying the package?

So friends, is this a particularly good or bad deal?  Do let me know
if you have advice, since I am looking at the car this weekend (and
will, of course, take it to a competent mechanic).  Thanks again for
your ongoing help in these matters.  Best, Micah

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Micah Siegel      "for life's not a paragraph    siegel@cns.caltech.edu
Caltech               And death i think is no parenthesis" e.e.cummings
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