Month: June 2022

Gas Mileage

Monday’s drive was just to go fill up the Miata. We had 700 points (or 70 cents off a gallon) that expired in three days and we didn’t want to lose them. Stats: 198.6 miles traveled, 7.869 gallons at $4.879 per (instead of$5.579) for an average of 25.24 MPG.

For whatever reason this fill up was marred by the fact that the pump kept auto shutting off like the tank was full. After it happened the first time at 3 something gallons the poor guy had to just stand there and actually man the pump. He was hesitant to keep feeding the car fuel because he didn’t want to over fill the tank. I told him it should take about 8 gallons, so he just kept squeezing and waiting for it the shut off, repeating it numerous times, maybe five times until it got close to eight.

24.3 miles between drives on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday & Today
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 42

 

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Its Summer Edition of SORT
As of Monday, June 27, 2022 at 6:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1960 Ferrari 250 GT
Pinin Farina Coupe		 1982 Jeep CJ-7 4-Speed 1963 Volkswagen
Type 2 Panel Van
If this doesn’t just scream rich gentleman’s sports car I don’t know what does. Too bad I’m neither rich nor a gentleman. An interesting Lowes connection, but I’d replace the word Lowes in the side stripe with Brian because I’m a renegade. Had a ’63 panel van on Guam, shipped it back, but junked it in Tennessee. Wonder if this is it resurrected?

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 1974 Porsche 911 Sold for $97,500 on 6/22/22
Off-Road: 2021 Ford Bronco Bid to $76,121 on 6/22/22
Touring: 1991 Nissan Figaro Sold for $10,500 on 6/22/22

Busy Weekend

Today was both the big downtown show for the Kruise of Klamath and the Klamath Kinetic Challenge along the Link River Trail. I only took a few photos of the cars in downtown because it was hard to capture nice pictures of the cars as they were jammed in, in the intense sunlight or half in and half in deep shadow, plus lots of people.

Its summer so the Miata is getting a “workout. Last night we went over to Moore Park to see some of the cars from the Kruise for 11.1 miles and today we went 8.6 miles to downtown to see the car show and up to the lake to watch Kinetic fun.

Tomorrow we’ll probably take the Mini because the Kinetic folks do their water course just before lunch and by then it will be very warm out.

19.7 miles in the last two days.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 38

 

Spatial Recognition Test

List the following items from the picture above in order of size from small to large:
Truck, SUV, shopping cart, Miata.

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21.7 miles around town mopping up our weekly shopping.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 37

 

81,000 Data Points

When we bought the CTBNL in August 2016 it had a little over 46,000 miles on the clock. Yesterday, June 2022, it hit the eighty-one thousand mile mark.

Because every time the Miata hits a comma and three zeroes mark I post about it and I add the tag “Miata Mileage” to it, so I decided to track down all those posts, get the dates it happened and create the nifty chart you see above.

I think I could have made it fancier in Microsoft Office, but all I have to use now is the free office program, LibreOffice, and I can’t figure out if it possible to get something nicer looking.

We are fast approaching 6 years of ownership and in the first 3 years we drove it almost 29,000 miles. Since then, in 5 years and 10 months the CTBNL has only added another 6,000 miles. There are a couple factors involved in this decrease of Miata mileage. First is that in the those beginning three years we were participating in those Moss Motoring Challenges, which caused us to drive around a lot locally and to take some long road trips. Secondly, we moved to Oregon where our convertible driving weather is in much shorter supply than it was in South Carolina.

17 miles on an evening drive last night & today’s pizza pick up run.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 36

 

Moore Park Monday and OC&E Trail Tuesday


No Snow Plow Needed

Today to celebrate the first day of summer we rode our mountain bikes 9 miles1 on a section of the OC&E Woods Line State Trail, a 109-mile rail to trail State Park. We have walked or rod bike ridden the first paved 10 miles of the trail before, but this is the first time for riding on the first bit of the unpaved 100 miles section going east out of town.

Yesterday we did our usual walk along the trails of our favorite Klamath Falls park for Moore Park Monday.

7.3 miles to Moore Park for Moore Park Monday.
Times Miata Driven since 01/01/22: 34

 

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Back Side Edition of SORT
As of Monday, June 20, 2022 at 6:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1974 Porsche 911 2021 Ford Bronco 1991 Nissan Figaro
If one could actually sell their soul to the devil this would be the car that could make me do it. If I had more money than sense rather than the other way around this could work for me. If I was just a little more eccentric than I am this would make a nice Miata replacement vehicle.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 1931 Ford Model A Pickup Hot Rod Sold for $68,000 on 6/18/22
Off-Road: 2022 Ram 1500 TRX Crew Cab 4×4 Bid to $83,999 on 6/15/22
Touring: 1999 Chevrolet K1500 Suburban LT 4×4 Sold for $9,300 on 6/14/22