Miata Mailing List: May 1995, Message #191
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   From: "Irwin, Chuck" 
Subject: silly question.....
   Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 18:45:52 -0400

>So excuse my ignorance BUT.....
>What is directly behind the seats?  Is it the gas tank?
>Or is that where Mazda put the babe magnet? :)
Wishful thinking would have me believe that the "babe magnet" (your term 
not mine) is in the drivers seat. Unfortunately the only thing in the 
drivers seat is usually a strange attractor :)
But, onto your question. The gas tank is centered in the car between the 
seats and to the rear. It slopes up backwards from the front, following 
the rear bulkhead of the car. There is a shoe box sized "tunnel" on 
either side of the tank that is accessible from the trunk. Removing the 
spare gets you to the passenger side tunnel, removing the plate in the 
trunk on the drivers side gets you access to the drivers side tunnel and 
the fuel fill/spill lines. Under the carpeting in the parcel deck is an 
access plate which gets you to the fuel level sensor, and the fuel output 
line and some other junk that I forgot. Also under the carpet is your 
alarm antenna wire. The tunnels are great for temporary/ longterm 
storage. My alarm is mounted on the passenger side, with plenty of room 
for storage, I will probably relocate the jack and tire change tools 
here, as it is accessible when the spare is removed anyway.  I keep 
tools/spare parts in the drivers side. These could be useful for long 
trips when you need someplace to put your dirty socks till you reach a 
laundry.

Chuck Irwin and Cover Girl Silver 90B 64Kmiles
Dialogic Inc. 1515 Route 10 East  Parsippany, NJ 07054, 1-201-993-3000 
x6162, C.Irwin@dialogic.com
These are the ramblings of Chuck Irwin, a person who sees wonderful and  
bizarre things when he closes his eyes, and therefore should be taken 
with many grains of salt until something better is written.  ( It helps 
that I have bonked my head so many times while working on cars)