Happy Birthday, Anniversary & Christmas

The Fam­ily CFO allowed me to go ahead and buy some fresh tires for the 15″ wheels. So wasn’t real happy with me for get­ting myself into this posi­tion, but agreed to spend the money for tires now as long as I con­sider them my birth­day (today), anniver­sary (Wednes­day) and Christ­mas (12/25) gifts for this year. And if I don’t behave myself, maybe next years as well. It works out bet­ter finan­cially fur­ther down the road, because if I went back to the 16″ wheels, when those tires wore out later next year I would have been ask­ing for the $300 for tires and an addi­tion $400 for after mar­ket wheels.

Now if all 10 of my occa­sional read­ers would donate $5 via Pay­Pal to sales@barndoorfanclub.org I’ll be able to get them mounted.

I ordered 4 Toyo T1-S in 195/50–15 from my pals at OnlineTires.com who have that size on spe­cial for $59 a piece. For that price and that tire you can’t get bet­ter back for your buck in a high per­for­mance tire. I just hope they are still sell­ing them for that price around Jan­u­ary 2006, because that is when I’ll prob­a­bly need another set. Of course, if the Miata.net rumors are cor­rect, by then Toyo will be sell­ing the replace­ment tire called T1R and it will prob­a­bly be a bit costlier.

Comet Incu­ba­tion Period: 3 days