Miata Mailing List: February 1997, Message #634
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Subject: Re: '97 M edition announced...

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At 12:01 AM -0400 2/2/97, HeyBillyA@aol.com wrote:

>>Come on Bill.

>>You must be getting old and senile, you know you where lucky to actually get

>>money for it, and now you are forgetting all the problems it gave you when

>>you had it.

>>Too much care free Miata driving is warping your brain. (:





When my wife and I first drove a Miata (a rented one), we brought it by her

folks house to show it off.  My mother in law's first car was a 66 MGB

(which she raced for years until tire costs got to be too much), which they

recently had totally restored.  The MGB is a beatiful car; BRG, black

interior, and lots of tasteful crome (unlike the later MB's that got

butchered by US crash worthiness requirements).  It's also a blast to

drive; you can do four wheel drifts at legal speeds due to the skinny and

gripless tires, which makes just about any drive a great one.



But even after extensive restoration, the carburators leak fuel, the gas

gauge doesn't work, the car takes forever to start, etc., etc., etc.  It

rarely gets driven anywhere because it never makes it to its destination

without a repair or two.  I have nothing against the MG, and I suspect the

Miata owes a great deal to the old British sports cars, but it is amazing

how much of the spirit of that MG the Miata seems to have captured in a

reliable package.



Oh, and we put more miles on that Miata in the single weekend we rented it

than that MG sees in a year.



James, anxiously awaiting our new R...