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John250

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I bought a 94 Miata a few months back for next to nothing. I bought if just because I like roadsters and these cars handle nicely in my opinion. I currently have it up on jack stands getting it ready for all new suspension, brakes, exhaust, sway bars, and to take the control arms off and have them sandblasted and painted.

I was just gonna see what the people of BCF's thoughts were on these cars. Seeing as they were supposed to have been modeled after earlier British cars.
 
Spitfire wanna be :jester:
 
haha Thanks.

I do like how primitive this car is by the basic suspension set up and lack of power steering. On the other hand I do believe my TR250 handles better.
 
I believe there are several current or ex-owners of Miatas on this forum. I had a 2000 NB, it was a fine car. A bit old-fashioned, but then so am I!
 
I bought an NB Miata new in 2000.
It has currently accumulated 110,000 miles.

It's been better than any car I've ever owned, including 40+ years of owning various British sports cars.
 
I own '92 NA with a supercharger and Koni shocks that I never take the hard top off of. Great car.
 
I enjoy driving the one I recently purchased. I picked it up for 800.00 so you can imagine its not in pristine condition by no means. But it only has 103,000 miles on it. The guy I picked it up from had let it set up in a barn for a little over 3 years. The only mechanical issue it has is it slips in first gear from time to time. Body has a few rust places in it and the paint is oxidized pretty bad.

But I didn't buy it to use it right away anyway. I bought it as something to work on and have something of a project. I have always been more into cornering cars than straight line fast cars (Mustang, Camaro, ETC) I had thought of building a track car of sorts to play with in Sebring but I think I am just gonna do a sport suspension and brake swap and some minor engine modifications for now and make a fun daily driver. Biggest thing is it is a automatic and I would like to do a 5speed Manual swap in it.
 
I had thought of doing a 2.0 turbo swap to it.

But as for now I am not 100% on which way I will go with the motor
 
I think they are nice little cars, like a modern Spitfire without the style.
 
Picture of my current project car

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still can't figure out how to get the image and not the link to show up in posts
 
Thanks.

How do you do this?
 
park a mk4 or 1500 spit next to a miata. Then look at the back. Similar size, shape, and tail lights. The miata is more modern and a little more <span style="text-decoration: line-through">bloated</span> curvy.
 
John250 said:
Thanks.

How do you do this?
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John, when you mouse over the pic in your album you will see share ,edit ,delete, and move and at the bottom of the box you will see email, direct link, html and img code left click on img and it will show copied then when you want to post it just right click and that is it.
Hope this helps.
 
I parked my Jensen Healey next to a friend's Miata once. Almost exactly the same dimensions (the JH was actually wider).

But from a "feel" perspective they always reminded me more of MGs. Too comfortable and not rorty enough to be a SpitFire.
 
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