Miata Mailing List: March 1996, Message #68
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   From: Phredd 
Subject: The Past Is Now!
   Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 23:20:19 -0500

        Fellow M-netters:

        I haven't seen a post on it but I was unsubbed for a while so, 
that maybe why. So, it may be a little late to bring it up but, has 
anybody read Al Karasa's OTW short story in the Winter'95 issue of Miata 
Magazine entitled "LAPSTEER?"

        It's a really neat story about a guy about a hundred years from 
now who likes driving a restored Miata (can you imagine what that thing'd 
be *worth*?) and the lengths he'll go to to get to drive that 1990's 
vintage MX-5. Apparently, in his society, there's no such thing as 
personal car ownership. In fact, there's virtually no such thing as 
personal cars! The only ones that exist have been restored by a small 
cadre of aberrants who've somehow managed to not only secret away a few 
great cars from the distant past but have built a "routecourse" to drive 
them on. Roads, as we know them today, have long since disappeared. 
Metropolitan masses know nothing but frictionless mass and semi-mass 
transit. Only the five percent lunatic fringe need apply to drive a good, 
old-fashioned roadster. Sound familiar?

       If you haven't done so, you might like to dig it out from 
underneath that pile of "New Yorkers" and "Auto Weeks" next to the roll 
holder and give it a read. It's truly entertaining. Al gives you an 
unusual opportunity to look back to the past in which you're currently 
living.

        Keep the Revs up!

        phRedd

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        Fred Donour, Jr.
        Klassic Red XCIII-A 

        Norfolk/Virginia Beach, Virginia
        License plate (rear only, of course): "MX-5"
        Team MCA ~ Team Voodoo (modified) ~ Team Toronto'96 (I hope)

        God's Miata is Red!



        PS:   Does anybody know a Web site where you can go have a 
virtual cigarette after Cybersex?