So Subdued, It’s Comatose
I didn’t put anymore than the 6 coats I did yesterday on the mirror. When I got up this morning I was tempted to paint it silver and start again, but didn’t. When I held it up to the car in the garage it was definitely Garnet Red, just kind of pebbly and matte and uneven. I decided I should spray some clear coat over the top and see if that helped. Of course I had to run to Autozone and spend another $4.43 on a can of paint. After 4 light coats of clear it cured the matte and unevenness. The texture, I knew, was there to stay.
Re-installed the mirror and looking at it in the garage you can’t even tell. The color is so dark and the angle of the windshield make it look as if nothing was done. Even outside in the daylight, if you didn’t know it was painted, you would never know. Perhaps on a bright day and with the sun at the right angle….I do like subtle mods, but this one is perhaps a little too understated.
I’m not sorry I did it, but this mod would probably be much more noticable on a lighter colored car like, white or silver. Should look real good on the primary colors too, classic red, mariner blue, or a 10AE. Of course if your Miata is black, this mod is already done for you at the factory. 😀
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Shoulda Primed
When I got home from work I removed the rear view mirror and masked off the front, the day/night tab and the mounting arm. I wiped it off with some alcohol to get rid of my finger grease and sprayed on coat number one.
The cover that is on the Mazdaspeed mirror is nice and smooth and glossy. The stock mirror housing is matte black and has a pebbled finish. I had zero plans of trying to sand it down to smooth, that is way too much work, I’m just want to make it car colored. This paint that came from PaintScratch.com is pretty thin so I knew I’d need a few coats to get the black mirror to look Garnet Red and so far I am up to 5 and it is starting to get there. Probably get one more on tonight and then a couple three in the morning. Hopefully that’ll do it.
I know now that if I do decide to do the brake calipers, I’ll prime them with some silver first…
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Gladiator Porno Movie Star?
I haven’t given a count of my work spam for a while and that is because they have changed to format in which I get the daily spam sandwich from Postini. It used to come in a spiffy html formatted email with the total emails right at the top. Now it is in plain text, and they dropped the email count. I have stupider things to do with my life than to count them, but I usually still glance through all the titles though. There is the miniscule chance there might be some real mail in there, but mostly I enjoy the ways they try and slip through the net. This morning there were at least 6 double emails. The sender, subject and time received were identical, I even went to the Postini site and compared the contents, they were identical too. Did they figure they could fool the filters by sending more than one?
Anyway, my favorite spam email for today was from venebw@telia.com with the subject of Tiberius Erectus – Rock her all night long.
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:
Now the Chaparrals in black with a polished lip:
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…
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Yeee Haw!
Two cowboys are out on the range talking about their favorite sex positions.
One says, “I think I enjoy the rodeo position the best.”
“I don’t think I have ever heard of that one”, says the other cowboy. “What is it?”
“Well, it’s where you get your girlfriend down on all fours and you mount her from behind, and you reach around and cup each of her breasts in your hands, and then you whisper in her ear, ‘These feel just a little smaller than your sister’s’ … then you try to hold on for eight seconds.”
If You Blinked You Mised It
The Bravo-esque entry blocks are gone. Back to good ol’ rounded corners on all four. I think the look was kind of cute and reserve the right to use it somewhere at a future date. Maybe for comments…
I’m drawing a blank for for today’s Lens Day word of “Diversity.” Plus tomorrow’s theme for the Thursday Challenge is “Food” and I don’t know what I’ll use for it either (and I’ve known about it since last Thursday.) I can see hundreds of food photographs, but none I think I can do justice to nor any I want to shoot. 🙁
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