View Poll Results: Which one?
Blue 2002 LS
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42.42%
Black 2004
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57.58%
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Make my decision for me.
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From: Detroit (the part with no rules or laws)
If i may chime in quickly. If you plan on driving a Miata through winter and it's rust free it won't be after one winter in snow/salt.
Ask me how i know.
Ask me how i know.
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From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Think Imma check dis out, as it's only about 30 minutes away by rail:
2004 Mazda Miata LS odometer: 132000 title status : clean
2004 Mazda Miata LS, convertible, 5speed Manual Transmission, Silver W/Blue Top. Premium Wheels, Power Windows, Locks, Mirrors, Cold A/C, In-Dash CD, Remote Keyless Entry, 132K miles. Looks and Runs Great.
(My plan to fly to Georgia to buy a car was deemed "insane" by the woman, who liked the black chery mica one that Cleetus the Slackjawed Yokel won't budge from $8k for.)
2004 Mazda Miata LS odometer: 132000 title status : clean
2004 Mazda Miata LS, convertible, 5speed Manual Transmission, Silver W/Blue Top. Premium Wheels, Power Windows, Locks, Mirrors, Cold A/C, In-Dash CD, Remote Keyless Entry, 132K miles. Looks and Runs Great.
(My plan to fly to Georgia to buy a car was deemed "insane" by the woman, who liked the black chery mica one that Cleetus the Slackjawed Yokel won't budge from $8k for.)
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ha, I was going to say: it took joe years and years to even consider an NB, with crazy technology like power windows, ac, ps, and other ultra plush creature comforts as those.
It will be another 20 years before he embraces the NC
It will be another 20 years before he embraces the NC
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They're actually pretty fun to drive after you throw some suspension at them.
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That silver '04 is more like it pricewise. Probably will be a rustbucket or something.
Best of luck Joe. Props for NC comment, even if that's a super nice car and really would be far superior to everything else you're looking at for what you're looking to do.
Best of luck Joe. Props for NC comment, even if that's a super nice car and really would be far superior to everything else you're looking at for what you're looking to do.
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If only I wasn't planning a wedding right now...
Mazda Miata Mx5 2003
I'm in Miami this week for work, if it were any other year, I would probably be cancelling my flight home.
Mazda Miata Mx5 2003
I'm in Miami this week for work, if it were any other year, I would probably be cancelling my flight home.
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From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
It is done.
This is my first car built in the 21st century, my first car with A/C, my first car with power windows, etc...
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and finding yourself a transsexual quadruple amputee in the île du Diable prison in 19th century French Guiana.
Aside from being heavier, uglier, twice as expensive, and less comfortable to sit in, yes, I agree completely.
And that would be a totally reasonable thing to expect.
It would also be wrong.
According to Vulpes carpentum, the car spent the first 4.5 years of its life in North Carolina (0-46,000 miles), then moved to Boca Raton, FL where it lived until April 2013 and 121,000 miles, whereupon it moved to the Empire state and racked up another 11,000 miles between then and now.
So the underside is pretty damned clean. Most of the brown stuff is dirt, there aren't even any spots I'd want to hit with POR15 before applying an undercoating. I need to get under there and take a closer look at some point as something is rattling like hell when I go over bumps (sounds exhaust-ey), but of course I need to buy jackstands, a jack, a house with a garage, etc. City life has deprived me of these things.
I welcome specific recommendations for undercoating / rustproofing, incidentally.
So far as I can tell, it's not actually an LS as advertised, but rather an Azure Blue Leather package base car- worst of both worlds. Still, it'll be easy enough to upgrade it to a base black cloth car.
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and finding yourself a transsexual quadruple amputee in the île du Diable prison in 19th century French Guiana.
Aside from being heavier, uglier, twice as expensive, and less comfortable to sit in, yes, I agree completely.
It would also be wrong.
According to Vulpes carpentum, the car spent the first 4.5 years of its life in North Carolina (0-46,000 miles), then moved to Boca Raton, FL where it lived until April 2013 and 121,000 miles, whereupon it moved to the Empire state and racked up another 11,000 miles between then and now.
So the underside is pretty damned clean. Most of the brown stuff is dirt, there aren't even any spots I'd want to hit with POR15 before applying an undercoating. I need to get under there and take a closer look at some point as something is rattling like hell when I go over bumps (sounds exhaust-ey), but of course I need to buy jackstands, a jack, a house with a garage, etc. City life has deprived me of these things.
I welcome specific recommendations for undercoating / rustproofing, incidentally.
So far as I can tell, it's not actually an LS as advertised, but rather an Azure Blue Leather package base car- worst of both worlds. Still, it'll be easy enough to upgrade it to a base black cloth car.
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