1990 Mazda Miata - $Free (ish)
 

Category: Import
Status: Clean Title

I have a 1990 Mazda Miata for sale, in USA - California.

Mileage: 220,000 miles


Asking price is $Free (ish)



Here's the deal: My car is parked at (redacted). It's in the corner of the parking lot away from the apartment complex and nearest the road. Come and get it:

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1378438427


If you feel guilty about just stealing the car, feel free to offer me some token amount of money for it- whatever you feel is appropriate. In exchange for this, I will mail you a key and the title, and probably not call the police and report the vehicle as stolen a week from now.


The Good:

• FatCat Revalved Bilsteins, with FM springs (318/233) and NB tophats.
• MS3Pro ECU
• Toyo R1Rs (less than 1 year old, with nearly full tread) on 15x7 Enkei wheels
• New top
• New windshield
• Zero rust
• It actually runs quite well
• You get to brag to your lonely, homosexual friends that you own a car that used to be owned by Joe Perez

The Bad:

• Pretty much every single body panel aside from the doors and the windshield frame has been crunched at some point. I did a quickie job of hammering and bondoing, and then applied a $100 paint job that looks like a $100 paint job. It looks like a 23 year old car that's been indifferently repaired and cheaply repainted by a complete amateur.
• I have no idea what the actual mileage is. The odometer had around of 220,000 miles on it when the speedo cable broke. I never replaced it.
• I don't guarantee that the car will pass smog. I see no reason why it shouldn't, but I haven't tested it in the current ECU configuration. (The last test was with the stock ECU, and it passed with flying colors.) Aside from the ECU, everything else is stock from the air filter to the tailpipe. You might need to retard the timing just a bit- I can email you a VEX file for this.

The Ugly:

• The interior isn't all that horrible, actually. A bit faded and a few dash cracks, but it's not like the seats are falling apart- it's worn, but not actually torn or broken. Better than you'd expect for a 23 year old car, and it's 100% original except for the aftermarket radio and the gauge panel made from a piece of a FedEx box under the radio.
• I actually can't think of anything else to write here. I wanted to put something funny here, but the muse is silent on this one.

No PMs.

The last time I did one of these, my inbox fucking exploded. Post in this thread, and this thread only. If you PM my about this, I will ban you.

If you want to offer me money, fine. If you happen to own a tow truck (or know how to hot wire a Miata) then just go take it and may God have mercy on your soul. Also, please post a message saying "I have stolen your car" so that I know not to accept cash offers for it.


https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...nt-car-red-jpg

Joe, I'll take this.

wowwwwwwwwwwww

I can't imagine it being too difficult to hotwire, but then a cop might see me and I'll get arrested.

I will give you some $ of course. Can you mail me the key? Or do you live nearby and I'll pick it up?

if it comes with the key and title I'll take it
Can't be ridin dirrty lol
And as a repeat customer, I think I should get priority :D

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1378442873

I'm in Nebraska at the moment, heading east, and won't be coming back to NorCal any time soon. See here: https://www.miataturbo.net/insert-bs...4808-new-post/

(Fuck the bay area. I'm done with it.)

I have the key and title with me. If you want those, offer me whatever you believe to be a reasonable amount of money, in light of the fact that it's essentially a stock, 23 year old Miata with a shitty paint job that happens to be very well tuned and has a few very expensive parts on it.

I will also provide documentation for the ECU install (a copy of the project file, an Excel sheet of the wiring harness, etc.) to paying customers.

Otherwise, just go to the address I gave with a tow truck and take the car. If you want to part it out, fine. Just make sure that the shocks and ECU find a good home.

Hey Joe, I'll give you money for the key and registration...definitely.

If I wasn't 2 hours away one way I'd be posting from inside the car on my way back now lol

Awe come on how will i send u nudes then? Last time i checked werent u bragging about having infinite pm space :D

$500 bucks and I will drive over right now with my trailer.

I can do better than that ^.

This has tuned into a bidding war. Lawls.

I feel like you may get banned for offering $500, lol.

You two are lucky that I don't have the cash to fly out and drive it home at this moment. Or else I would throw down the highest bid of them all, banning everyone but Braineack, Joe P, and I.

Nuts. I want a beater Miata with better suspension and ECU than 99% of the Miatas on the road.

kenzo lemme know if you'll be taking it or not; I have a tow truck waiting. :D

I'll pull an 18psi and offer $2k for it.

a smart person would go tow it, then enter a bidding war with themselves.

Hell if I was within a few hours, I'd of already had this thing parked in my garage with the steering lock ripped up and ignition hot wired. then I'd send joe a prestamped envelope full of my little pony trading cards in exchange for the key and title.

Or a forged autographed picture of Tom Selleck.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1378484003

:laugh:

no way bro its a 1.6 that's way too much torque and spool for my taste

oh and I call your bluff:

if you don't pay up you get banned.

That would be worth a few bucks to me. Care to start a kickstarter page for it?

Yes, I do want it. However, I noticed that 18psi said Ryan went last night and for Joe to call him (on Joe's profile page, but has since been deleted and edited). I never heard anything more.

Ryan, did you get it last night? If not, I'm going to get it.

Joe, has it been taken?

It's gone

Ryan for the win:dealwithit:

Too late I guess we'll never know.

FailFlora just sent me a text saying he would give Joe $1000 cash and could be on a plane flight out there tonight.

Huh.

Well, if you're serious, then I guess it's yours. I'll PM you my PayPal info tonight. (I'm sitting in a traffic jam in central America at the moment writing this on my fancy new phone)

And ban him if he doesn't pay up.

It was a serious offer but I thought it was gone so I spent the money on my 1.6

I was on my way when my boss called and gave me the ultimatum, come back to work or get fired lol.... so fuck.

Flakes wouldn't cover my shift.

So between 11am and 12:23pm you spent 2k on your 1.6?

Really?

Really?

Ban for being a liar.

Offer = $2000

If I spend (0, $2000] than I no longer have the initial $2000 offer. I don't need to spend $2000 dollars to not have the intial $2000 anymore.
My first post was a joke though...

This thread has been pissing me off all day.

I am going to Fremont tonight after work anyways. If that fucker is still there I am taking it

A little sound track to make this thread more epic.

Ok, any REAL offers?

Hahaha FRT got banned.

More pics for prospective buyers/thieves.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1378500030

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1378500030

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1378500030

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...1&d=1378500030

My real offer is $500, I hate to sound like a low baller, but I can PayPal you right now and have it picked up tonight.

I just got my first place so I am sorta broke at the moment.

Ryan is 100% legit and definitely needs the car. In fact, so legit that I can even make the payment for him right now Joe.

Joe, I'll give you $700...plus a BJ.

J/K about the BJ, but I will pay for the car...didn't I have dibs? I will bring you some more microbrews too!

Joe, if you PM or call me, let's work something out. 661-496-nine three five five

When I first saw central America I thought Juan Valdez and his burro, and I wondered why you drove across the country in a rental truck to catch a flight. Then I woke up to what that really meant.

And as FRTfun can probably attest, don't fawk with Joe when he is road weary and his patience is short. Good luck to all of people jockeying for the car, whether it is a bidding war, who replied first, or who gets there first. Lol @ Kenzo posting within 3 minutes of the original post.

And to Joe, good luck and godspeed. I wish you the utmost happiness in your endeavor to find a good home.

Is it actually still there? I can't tell from where the thread has gone. I'm up in Sac but seriously need suspension, I can be down tomorrow at 8 AM for it and I'll pitch you some cash Joe.

I'm on my way there

Looks like kenzo has dibs at $700.

If you want to wait, I can always FedEx the key to you. Any one who steals the car in the mean time will face retribution.

$725

That's not my car, though that is my apartment complex in the background. The car is parked in the parking lot, which is on the opposite side of the complex from where that photo was taken.



I just got off the phone w/Keno. Unless someone wants to offer me $1k, the car is his.

I am 100% serious about failflora asking about the car. I have no doubt in my mind he would jump on a plane and cross country the car back to MD right after giving you $1000. Hell he might even fly to NYC and grab keys and title from you before he fly's out.

Banned users do not exist, and as such, they cannot buy the car from me. If they were to act through an intermediary who does exist, then said intermediary would be my customer.


I plan on finding a FedEx / Kinkos office tomorrow morning to mail the key to Kenzo. So that's about how long a person who did exist would have to backstab Kenzo and purchase my loyalty.

Wish I would have seen this earlier. I would have taken the 10 minutes to drive over there during lunch and checked it out. Not that I really want it, but it would have been more entertaining than being at work.

If only all the world were this honest...


Best of luck in your cross country trip.

I figured it wasn't since the wheels are different. I just thought it was funny that looking up that address on Google Maps produced a ratty-looking red NA Miata.

Even ironicer, there is often a very nice red NB parked in that exact same spot.

I still can't believe those assholes slapped a label right over top of Rainbow Dash.


What was in that box anyway? I can't remember what you bought. Was that the 3.636 R&P?

I almost sent my father to get it. He would have beat you all there, but I doubt he'd have come up with 700 dollars. I suspect he would not have minded the shadiness of stealing it, but once he discovered it was nonstandard he'd probably have flipped out.

Just curious...how would one load the car up in a parking lot like that? With no key the steering wheel will be locked, no? It's hard to tell how big that lot is, but I'd have to think that trying to line up a trailer wouldn't be terribly easy.

It takes all of 30 seconds to open and start that car.




........hypothetically, I wouldn't know

If it's somehow still there by the end of this coming week I'll put on some nt01s + a rollbar and take it to Laguna Seca next Saturday instead of my track car . . . and then park it back where it was (minus tires and rollbar).

LOL community track beater.

I wish I was on that side of the country. Thanks for posting yet again another very entertaining thread. :D

I'm sure FRTfun enjoyed it.