I find that the car seems happier when I'm not driving in traffic.

Pretty much everything is happier when not driving in traffic. Especially in cars lower than most people's windows.

That's the problem once they get to driving reasonably well...there's more of an excuse to drive it than work on it!

Steve -- I'm waiting for him to chuck the carb into the bin and put in a Megasquirt setup....

Jean's car, inherited from her daughter-in-law, who bought it new. Has just about every option available. V6 auto w/ tow package. Recent tires. Oil changed every 5k. Gets washed and vacuumed at least twice a month (she has one of those unlimited wash deals).

Blue Book says $11-$13k.

She just ...

Loren wrote:Something weird going on with the car wiring.

LBC.... You're not only matching up modern electrical components with old electrical components...those old components are BRITISH.

What I noted today is that the car leaks engine oil and trans fluid.
Well, LBC! If there's no puddle of oil, there's no oil left!

Tuesday...yeah, was probably at work. But I'm only doing part-time now, and I have lots of control over my hours, so it's always worth a try. AAA roadside service has ...

Well, I went and did it. Bought a Midget.
It actually looks pretty good.

Next time, see if I'm around before you call AAA...especially since they measure response times in days now (I dropped my AAA membership after the 3d time they stranded me). If it's light enough to push onto the trailer, I ...

Aesthetics aside, I can't think of why nobody has ever done this before. Who says a mini pickup bed has to be BEHIND the passenger compartment? It'll look weird. But, if it's removable, it's only there when I need it.
You've described a roof box attached to a rack.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic ...

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On the bad side:
Ride quality over bumps is harsh.
Ride quality over bumps is HARSH.

Cathy can't stand to ride in it now. And driving across the Bayside bridge where it gets humpy... at 70 mph, was somewhere between comical and dangerious! The car has a serious "pogo" problem.

What to do ...

Glad to hear Rob is up and about. Last I heard, he was having significant back issues.

I kinda miss the activity of the old FAST forum, wish it would return here.

Anyhow... I've not been playing with cars much lately.
Rob's still a bit creaky, but he's still working races for Phoenix as a tire ...

A dozen events in the books now...everyone's taking a collective break in July (it has gotten rather hot lately). Saw Rob and Diane Edwards at the FIRM a couple of weekends ago with, predicitably, another Mustang.

Starting Sunday: eight weekends, six events....

If "early Miata" = NA, there isn't. But NBs and Toyota MR2 Spyders are more or less the default cars for ES (aka "cheap sports car class"), and probably will be until the early models start aging out of national competition in 6 years. Newer Miatas are up in CS, along with the newer Toyabru Twins ...

Everyone looks at the odometer (315k) and stops worrying.... I did finally put on a heavier front sway bar. And after last years not-so-successful tire choice (Kumho V730s), am hoping to threaten the ES midpoint.

I ran a scope down there, and checked the compression afterwards -- the top of the piston was shot-peened pretty well, but no visible damage to the cylinder wall or the rings ( https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid038MLLmSMdMqM9TGMVpcmB8tLPwhgpw3BW1wDLcrRC7LoUQND1MzcLj1pSnpAKSA79l ...

Let's see....

Ran the very last autocross of 2020 -- the Dixie National Tour was the weekend everything started locking down, but was allowed to run since everything was set up. Finished dead last in class, because the Miata dropped a spark plug tip into #1 cylinder and had to be trailered home (an ...

My mother had to finally replace her dryer last fall...a Kenmore she'd had it since the mid-'70s. Harvest Gold, no less. Single electro-mechanical rotary switch, electric motor driving the drum via a belt, electric heating element. The latter finally did it in...her repair guy couldn't find a ...

That top shot is distant past...isn't that Howard's B Mod car? Saw Joe Vance up at the FIRM for an MSCC event last weekend...you wouldn't recognize him now...he's gone bushy.

Too fun not to share: Hot-lapping a '68 Howmet TX . How do I get the Miata to sound like that?

Loren wrote:I spotted a button in the trunk while looking for that rattle... it said "trunk release on/off".

First they put in an emergency pull for people who get themselves trapped in the trunk. Now there's a switch for people who don't want to be let out....