The Good Ol’ Days

I’ve had a lot of complaints about my uninteresting posts for the last couple of days, well just one complaint (Hi Mark), but with my single digit readership, one is a lot comparatively, so I’ve decided that tonight I will repeat a post from the glory days. I’d link to the post, but it is short enough to just quote it here.

Happy 2002
New Year?s Day. Cold, maybe mid forties. The Miata sits in the garage all day. The farthest I venture is around the block on rollerblades. Donna goes to the store, but uses the MSV.

That was my first blog post on January 1st, 2002. Now that was quality.

While moving from one bedroom to the other a couple of weeks ago Donna was going through some boxes and stumbled on the bill of sale from our first Miata purchased on November 7, 1989 for list price, $16,639. It was a middle range ‘A’ package car with the only options added being air conditioning and floor mats. We financed the car at an interest rate of 12.5%, so we ended up with 60 payments of $344.63.

Funny thing though, fourteen years later when we bought the Emperor, a top of the line LS, because it had sat on the dealer’s lot for nearly a year they were willing to deal for a below invoice price and with interest rates at 4% we ended up with 60 payments of $311.25.

So maybe the good ol’ days, in both blogging and Miata buying, weren’t so good after all.