Miata Mailing List: February 1995, Message #73
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   From: Bob Crawford 
Subject: Parking tags
   Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 21:05:40 -0500

Hi everybody,

After a great Christmas season (Clearwater headrest speakers, door sills, 
Mighty Products lighted mirror, Brain-Storm ignition illuminator, Voodoo 
shift knob), "Little Red" and I are planning for spring.

I'd like to keep the top down and the boot on virtually all the time once 
the rain stops. Where I park for work is guarded and is fairly safe, so I'd 
like to keep the top down and use either a car cover or a cockpit cover 
to protect primarily against bird doo doo (We've got huge magpies in the 
Valley).

Here's the dilemma.

I have to use a parking permit sticker to avoid $14 daily parking 
tickets. BUT, our parking stickers are pretty big and ugly, so I've 
avoided placing the sticker on the rear bumper. Instead, I use one of 
those mirror hangers.

However, at $44 a semester, those permits are gold, so to use the hanger, I 
really need to have the top up and locked. Frankly, I'm not sure there is 
a solution to this, but if anyone has ever come up with one, I'd bet it 
would be somebody on this list.

So, here's the challenge. I need a way to deal with the permit that 
doesn't stick it on the bumper, allows me to keep the top down and isn't 
vunerable to theft.

My only thought (and I'd have to check it with the campus cops) is to 
stick it on the wind screen in the extreme lower driver's corner, then 
slice it a zillion times to discourage pealing it off and finally mark 
the cover to alert nasty little parking cops to its location.

Any ideas?

Bob Crawford and "Little Red"
Turlock, Calif.
Bobc@koko.csustan.edu