Miata Mailing List: May 1994, Message #32
sponsored by



     


   From: sylvain@express.ctron.com (Eric T. Sylvain)
Subject: Gif file, question, history
   Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 16:29:58 -0400



  Well its been a long time since I've posted so here it goes...

   Simple Miata Clipart

      I've managed to squeeze some time into pulling some of the images
   submitted to me by Alex M. Postpischil.  Alex put his stuff on a disk
   and shelled out $0.75 to mail it to me.  So far I have only combined
   about 1/3 of it into a 1180x900 gif using about 27 colors.  Most of
   it is Black and White, but some of it is color.  When I get more time
   I will compile more of Alex's stuff with some stuff from Steve
   Telehowski.  So, if you want this stuff, just e-mail a request for it.
   But, this is the scoop.  It will come as a gif file only and uuencoded.
   Getting it to a format you can use and debugging any uudecoding problems
   etc. will rest in your hands.

    Question

      Has anyone ever seen any statistics on the safety of using your
   seatbelt while convertible.  Whenever I have the top up or hardtop on
   I put my seatbelt on, but I always question if I should put it on
   when the top is down.  It becomes a question of getting thrown from
   the car in a roll (possibly squashed or saved) or, getting my spine
   compressed and not being able to move or whatever in a roll.

    Car History

      1984 Ford LTD II (3.8 FI) - reliable school transportation while
                                  in college. still have it.
      1986 Dodge Shadow (2.2)   - Utter piece of trash, I have vowed
				  never to buy another dodge/crysler/etc.
				  product.  I would rather make a car than
				  go through the problem I had with this
				  car.
      1990 Miata (B/AT/AC/HT)   - Only car to have a name, I call it
				  "Road-Runner". AT allows my wife to drive it.
				  AC because I like it. 
      1984 Ford Mustang         - Good winter beater with snows on. I also
           (GT TURBO/ST/AC)       liked the turbo pull on this car.
				  Gave it to my brother who totaled it and got
				  more from the ins co. than I had paid fo it.
      1989 Mercury Topaz        - Wifes car.
      1987 Audi 4000S		- Present winter beater. I love the engineering
				  of this car and all of the toys.  And I love
				  the Standard Transmission aspect.

          ######                                       ####                    
         ########                                      ####                    
        #########                              ##### ###########               
      ####   ###     ####         #####            #########                   
     ####    ###    #####         #####                ####                    
   #####     ###  #######  #####                       ####                    
 ######     #########  ##  ######             #######  ####  #####             
 #####      ########   ##########    ##     ##### ###  #### #########          
   ###     #######     ##########    ###   #####  ###  #### #####  ##          
           ######      ####   ###    ###  ####    ###  #########   ###         
          #####        ####   ###    ########     ###  #########    ###        
          #####        ###    ###   ##########    ##############     #####     
         ####                  #######   ########## ######## ################  
        ####                   ######         #####   ######   ####     #######
        ####                    ####                                           
       #####    Eric T. Sylvain   Cabletron Systems, Inc.  Software Engineering 
       ####               sylvain@miata.ctron.com  (603)337-7014