I don't know why it is, but I have always disliked small cars. I hated my wife's Honda Civic. I tolerate her Nissan Sentra SE-R, mostly because it's an SE-R and has some symbalance of performance.
My first car was a 1972 Ford LTD. That was followed by a 1981 Chevy Monte Carlo, and that by the smallest car I had owned until recently: a 1992 Saturn SL1. I have owned a Jeep Cherokee 4DR, a '79 Mercury Cougar XR-7, a '67 Olds Toronado, F-150, '95 Chevy Caprice 9C1. I even owned a couple of Audis as well, the most recent a 1989 90 Quattro and the previous an '87 5000CS Turbo Quattro wagon (my favorite).
All in all, big cars. Large cars. Even the small ones were Mid-Sized. So what the hell was I thinking when I bought a 91 Miata last week? I still don't know. I must have been crazy. Even my wife's Sentra dwarfs the Miata with its 2200 pound curb weight and its small 1.6 litre motor. But what I do know is that I have had more fun driving this last week than I have had in ages.
Thus, we now begin The Miata Chronicles
| Part 1: | The Beginning |
| Part 2: | The Delicate Sound of Thunder |
| Part 3: | Timing Belt Blues |
| 3.1 | Crank Hold Bracket HOW-TO |
| Part 4: | Bitten by the Dragon |
| 4.1: | To Tapoco and Beyond! |
| 4.2: | The Miata Invasion |
| 4.3: | MATG XI: The Voyage Home |
| 4.4: | Miatas at the Gap: A Retrospective |
| Part 5: | The Ballad of the BRG |
| Part 6: | Making it your own |
| 6.1: | IL Motorsports NA Console |
Other sites that will provide you with a wealth of information:
Miata.Net
Miata.Net Forums
Roadster Chat
Miatas At The Gap
Das Aggregator!