Miata Mailing List: September 1997, Message #86
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From: 	Charles Lynch <cgl@solutions.co.nz>

Subject: RE : Wow, What a club run...

Date: 	Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:14:02 +0000





Gang,



You've (presumably) all read Fletch's comments about the club run. It really 

was great fun, and I wanted to add some observations of my own.



>> Then it was state-highway 25A across the back of the Coromandel ranges



Can I just point out that a state-highway in New Zealand would actually be a 

back road in any other country. Just one  lane going each way and twisting 

like crazy up the hills. :-))



One of the best parts for me, though, was examining everyone elses cars.



Most of the cars were brought in secondhand from Japan, so most cars had at 

least one unusual aftermarket item :-). Very interesting, but if you see 

something that you like, you can't just go out and buy it :-(



The colours represented were White, Laguna blue, Mariner blue, Satelite 

blue, Red, Merlot, Yellow, Silver, Black and the most represented colour 

British Racing Green. Most of the BRGs had the normal sized/shaped chrome 

mirrors, very cool! Perhaps these were fitted as standard on the BRGs in 

Japan at some point?



I finally met up with a fellow Scot that I'd spoken to on the phone a few 

times. His car was pretty unusual. It was Silver with a single thick blue 

stripe, but the most unusual thing was that everything in his car was 

spotless. His engine was polished to a chrome look and he had metal sleeves 

over all hoses. The brace bar was a Mazspeed one which looked quite 

substantial and was shaped like squashed two inch chrome pipe. Underneath 

the car, he had painted everything in black, except the diff which was 

painted silver. Made the car look brand new (It was a 94).



He'd got a second pipe attached to the muffler exit pipe which bent back and 

came out on the other side of the car to make to give the twin exhaust look. 

He had also had the two 4 inch exhaust tips engraved with MAZSPEED. The 

engraving made them look quite classy. (his original tip was a Mazspeed 

which was engraved in this way).



There was a very dark metallic blue MX5 (almost looked black, except in 

direct sunlight, could be the same colour as the STO?), it had factory suade 

seats with seperate headrests.



There were also cars with Aluminium Gear shift surrounds, Carbon Fibre dash 

kits, Chrome roll bars (single, single hooped and twin hooped) etc 

etc......... No teddy bear wheels though!!



All this to look at, plus good weather,33 Miatas, winding roads, a car 

collection and a winery. Wow, so much to do, so little time.



PS According to the car collection owner the MG club went to see his car 

collection last year. Apparently only four people turned up. Fletch and I 

wondered if they had actually left Auckland with only two cars or if they 

had left with 30 odd cars like us, but the rest had broken down on the way 

;-)





Cheers



Charles Lynch

91 Silver (The fastest colour)

Auckland, New Zealand.