Miata Mailing List: May 1994, Message #178
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   From: Jonathan Webb 
Subject: Cars I've owned
   Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 06:53:05 -0400

    I thought about listing cars I've owned, but the list would be too long, and
    really not very interesting, as-side from the '60 MGA I drove and loved for 9
    years, and the '70 124 Spider ditto for 7 years (the engine wore out!)  Of
    course, I had my obligatory first cars, a $75 1931 Chevy and a $125 1934,
    mechanical-braked Ford that went like hell and you learned to smile at those
    you used as brakes when you rear-ended them!  But, "Miata Mike" Johnson's note
    pushed me over the edge.  I just cannot believe that someone else in the world
    owned two Austin Marinas, simultaneously, in the same colors as I had (I assume

>> Are these the Austin Marinas built by British Leyland/BMC in the UK ?
>> They had the nerve to export those things !

    he really means a wierd maroon rather than red)!  At the time, I thought I had
    the Southern California market for Austin Marinas cornered.  My oldest daughter
    and I both "totaled" the Marinas, but we got them back to the streets.  They
    had a humongous trunk, the MGB engine, but unfortunately "Prince of Darkness"
    Lucas electrics.
    Well, enough of that, I couldn't keep quiet after the coincidence.
    I'll go back to reading sporadic daily digests that get by the hall-monitor, we
    have for a network manager.
    Bill Allen, the sun's shining in Seattle!