Miata Mailing List: December 1999, Message #578

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It's the little details that I feel make the Miata such a special car.
Now.....if only people would stop calling my car cute, and call it pretty!!!!!

1) The raised dimple on the hood.
2) The lip on the trunk lid.
3) A battery that lasts longer, because it's trunk mounted.
4) Those Frankenstein bolts!
5) Not having to worry about the mechanics of an automatic top failing on you.
6) Headrest speaker capability!
7) The '94 and '96 M Editions.
8) The wheels on the 10AE's.
9) The red interior on the 93 Limited Editions.
10)Sport packages!
11)The difference just installing a K&N filter makes.
12)Jealous stares from people in SUV's.
13)Seeing how much stuff you can shove in the tonneau, yet still see out the
back rear window.
14)Unlimited headroom.
15) The fact that the car shifts so well, I don't want to buy a short-shift
kit, and change things.
16)When family members aren't ashamed to jump into the pax seat.
17)Not necessarily needing a body kit, because the car is so.....dare I say
it....cute to begin with.
18)Joe Portas' custom-made shift knobs, and titanium Voodoos.
19)The car is short-people-friendly to wash!!
20)Finding out there are thousands and thousands of people out there who
love their Miatas just as much as you love yours.
21)Those eyeball vents.....and how good chrome ones look.
22)An A/C and heater that are almost a little too efficient, sometimes.
23)A choice between having the pop-up headlights, and not having the pop-up
headlights. 
24)Leaving everybody in the dust at 6000rpm.
25)Getting a suburn on your neck, face and arms because you were on a long
drive that day, and not because you were working outside.
26)Seeing a Triumph Spitfire at your mechanic's garage with parts strewn
everywhere, while you happily speed past.
27)Installing a Stage IV turbo, and making a grown man in a Mustang 5.0 cry
by the time you get to the next stoplight.
28)Putting a rear spoiler and stripes on the car....yet it looks classy, and
not rice-y.
29)Being able to fix those paint chips yourself with ease.
30)Seeing a look of worry and fear from other CSP competitors when you hit
the course.



Tina Csomo, member- Miata Club of SW Florida
"Workin' Woman's Porsche"aka "Swee' Pea"
White '95, one of 2945 ,un-numbered.
tinabee@peganet.com

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