Miata Mailing List: December 1999, Message #580

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>Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 09:00:22
>To: miata@list.miata.net
>From: tinabee@peganet.com
>Subject: Top 10 things that make the Miata cool!
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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!!!!!
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>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.
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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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