Miata Mailing List: January 1996, Message #155
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   From: "Miq Millman" 
Subject: Ghost becomes Rudolf
   Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:07:56 -0500

Sigh.  It was just a matter of time, you see the odds were against me.  The
strange thing was, I sort of was expecting it to happen that night.

What happened?  I had an accident in Ghost.  Well fender bender is more like
it.  The incident happened slow enough that the air bag didn't go off.

I was driving in the left turn lane passed cars that had received the green
light about 15 to 20 seconds ago, but the flow had not started yet, when
someone decided that the gap in front of him was so he could make a left turn.

He didn't see me.  

The really wierd thing is that just as I was leaving I thought to myself, how
strange it was that 8 years ago that night (december 27th) I had been driving
to the martial arts when I got into my last accident.  (then it was a 1959
pink Cadillac (no joke) with "Non-stop Bop" painted on the hood; the driver
was a mobile DJ, who non-stopped, and bopped me in the rear)

This time I was driving to martial arts and a Nissan pickup non-go'd and we
bopped in da front.

The short of it:  He's at fault, his insurance is paying.

The long of it:  Ghost gets a new driver's fender, nose, turn signal lamp.

The wierd of it:  I called around looking for used bits in the correct white,
but to no avail.  I ended up talking to Monster Motorsports and found they
had stock noses from the Mega-Monster conversions, for $75.  This is already
painted and decal'd so that's a bunch cheaper than a new one at $106 plus $12
for the Mazda decal, plus $45 for the paint additive to give flex to the
paint.   However, Monster folks only had red, black and blue.  Since Ghost
already has a red roll bar (and miata.net stickers) I went with a red nose.

This evening, I'll be stopping by the Quik-e-sign and picking up a 20 foot
roll of 7" wide red vinyl.  Ghost^H^H^H^H^HRudolf gets a pair of red stripes
as well as a new name.

Darn, just as I was getting ready to work on the 911.

Rudolf, the red nosed Miata.   Hmmmm, maybe its time for a personalized
plate.....

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