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Old Apr 20, 2010 | 04:21 PM
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All eight were CL. Ranged from $7250 for 51K 99 two years ago to $400 for a 27K mile 94 "project" that was solely purchased to part out.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 04:29 PM
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$4200 almost 4 years ago. 123k on the odometer, absolutely bone stock.

oops.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 04:36 PM
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'96 Montego/tan leather, 112k miles, clearcoat peeling, tires fair/poor, $3200
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
No, but you could have had Robino's car instead.
Alas that car was totalled. I had to buy a rolling shell and transport every part to another car. The car is now silver. (Used to be BootedNB's car)
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 04:44 PM
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$4750 for my 94 with 52k on it back in 2005. $1300 for my 92B&T with 300k on it with hardtop and bbs rims back in October.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 05:05 PM
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$0.00


gift.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 05:16 PM
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2000$ for 90 miata with 250k on odometer & 1.6 ln engine swap unkown miles good compression, hardtop, a few dings and some fading paint. apparently like "20 people" called and the reason i got it was because i called like 3 times.

edit: bought nov last year
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 07:11 PM
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About $4000 near 4 years ago with 112k, bone stock.

PO was a neighbor in my apartment building that was moving back to Germany.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 07:47 PM
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Paid $3500 for a 75K mile stock 94 with a hardtop three years ago but I took my time and looked and shopped for the right deal on the right car.

Searchtempest is your friend for searching Craigslist. Here is a search I did within 500 miles of Billings for Miatas for sale. Maybe you'll see something to check out. I saw several 99's under 100K miles for around 4k on that list.

http://www.searchtempest.com/results...in&maxAsk8=max
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 07:50 PM
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Too much. $4500 for a classic red '94 R Package with ~101k miles, shitty paint and of course tons of rattles.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 07:54 PM
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Heh. I paid $25K for mine, brand new with 15 miles on it, in July of 1998.

--Ian
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 08:05 PM
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I paid $2000 for my 90 that was shot in 03 and I picked up a 92 for free off a coastie who had abandon it. Parted out the 92 and rebuilt the 90.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 08:20 PM
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paid $2,000 for 91 auto white miata with 113k miles on it. she's the love of my life now, kind of wish i had bought a stick. but appearently people say automatics are pretty hard to find
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 08:25 PM
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3000 for a 95 bone stock in decent/good condition with 116K
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 08:31 PM
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$1500 for my '94 on craigslist in June 2008. Its a california car, the drivers fender and door were dented, and it needed some minor mechanical work like a radiator and brakes.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 08:45 PM
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$4500 for a '97 w/ 39k (interior needed some work, still needs a few paint touchups...
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 09:02 PM
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6k, pretty much as it sits mechanically, just over a year ago
https://www.miataturbo.net/cars-sale-trade-6/considering-selling-my-miata-24080/
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 09:16 PM
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March of 07 I paid $6000 cash for my 99 with 103,000 miles from a dealer. Was 1 owner car and bone stock except for the 16" motegi wheels. I have since added everything...roll bar, hardtop, turbo and everything turbo related, gauges, MS, LC-1, exhaust, removed A/C. I'd guess I have at least $4000 on top of what I paid for it, I never figured it out. I do know that I am more than happy with it, it's at least 3 seconds faster in the 1/4 than stock, and I get better gas mileage.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 10:47 PM
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In November, 1999, I financed my '99 PEP with hardtop and dealer-added leather seats for four years. Probably paid just under $30,000 all told.
Old Apr 20, 2010 | 11:00 PM
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'97 with nb ht and defroster glass window soft top, 135k km (~84k mi) in red, safetied and emissions tested, taxes in $4500 in Dec 08. Asking was $8000 (down from 10k two months before) at a used merc/bmw dealer, it was traded on a z4.

The owner of the dealership wasn't selling much and I overheard that he was going to miss a mortgage payment so I got my car for my price.

Keep in mind everything is 1000000000X more money in Canada and 1.8 na's are somewhat rare here.

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