Not really. If you stood out of the wind in the sun during the mid afternoon you might believe it was a cool summer day.
It was a nice day for the “Membership Drive.” We actually did get a new member. A fellow who had purchased a new Miata from Rader back in the real summer, showed up to claim his free membership. He had to leave early, so he said, I hope we didn’t frighten him off.
It also became common knowledge among the group that I am flirting with leaving the Miata fold for Mini-dom. When I blamed it all on Mazda for not having a decent blue colored car, Scott hustled off and got the hot-off-the-presses 2004 Miata brochure. It contained this sharp looking picture of a bright blue Miata. Seems a new color for ’04 is Strato Mica Blue. I never trust the colors depicted in Mazda photos as they have been way far apart from the actual appearance in the past. Good thing, because it turns out Strato is the same color as one of 2003’s Special Edition colors which is much darker than the brochure (or web page) shows and when I saw one in Rader’s showroom several months ago it looked almost PURPLE!
Purchased Today: $2.87
Money spent since 03/03/03: $2614.54
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 275