Miata Mailing List: March 1996, Message #87
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   From: Dlralt@aol.com
Subject: Re: The Past Is Now!
   Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 10:26:06 -0500

In a message dated 96-03-01 23:24:08 EST, you write:

>
>        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?
>
Phredd,
Pick up a copy of Rush's  "Red Barchetta" for the musical interpretation of
this story. Don't remember what studio disc it's on, but it is on live disc
"Enter Stage Left(right?, i don't remember).

bill