Miata Photos

The Emperor’s New Stickers

Emperor

Since the stickers have been on the car we have ran into a couple people we know around town and the first things out of their mouths were, “What are those Chinese letters for?” That confirms my suspicion that they are way too loud (close up view.) Off they’ll come tonight.

Rick, of Obsession fame, just sent me a link that might be just the thing: YourEmblem.com Kind of pricey, but I’m racking up the dollar total with my failed far-eastern mods…

Started down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 271

Photographer’s Block

There have been 13 chances for participating in my usual 3 photo memes in July. I have submitted five and all of them have come from the archives. You have to go back to to June 23rd to find a picture shot specifically for a theme. I totally missed on taking a July picture for the Mr. Fletcher’s Ride series (although I could go get an outtake from last month and no one would know, I’m sure nothing has changed.) We spent the weekend in the mountains and I took 4 pictures, three of a very raging waterfall/river and this:

Lets Go

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
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Wishing Wheels III

Rspeed has produced some new “vintage” wheels called Chaparral 15s that looked like a winner, until they weighed them, 15.5 pounds. Hard to want to add 2 more pounds of unsprung weight back onto each corner. To top it off they also don’t directly clear the larger brakes on the 2001+ Miatas. It can be done, but you have to add a 3 mm spacer behind the wheels. Too bad as they would look killer on the car. For comparison, first the OEM wheels:

OEM 15

Now the Chaparrals in black with a polished lip:

Onyx Chaparral 15s

We made it to work this morning with the top down, but put it up because there was an 80% chance of rain. They were 100% right, it started around 10 and rained most of the day. At 4 o’clock when we left it had stopped. We got in the car and dropped the top for the drive home. Halfway out of the parking lot the rained started back up, so as we crept towards the exit I put it back up. It was a nice try…

Started down, went up, back down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/05: 76