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Month: January 2023

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Monday, January 30, 2023

January is the Monday of Months Edition of SORT
As of Monday, January 30, 2023 at 11:00 AM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1967.5 Datsun 1600 Roadster 1961 International Harvester Scout 80 Euro 1998 BMW 750i Individual
An absolute gem of a classic Japanese sports car that is modded for today. A 62-year old perfectly patinaed body on a 7-year old Jeep Wrangler chassis. I had several more BMW wagons to pick from, but I opted for a big sedan.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 1998 Lotus Elise Sold for $46,540 on 1/25/23
Off-Road: 2020 Mahindra Roxor Sold for $27,500 on 1/24/23
Touring: 1994 BMW 316i Touring Sold for $16,000 on 1/24/23

Tagged: Cars, Sport-Off Road-Touring

Inspired By…

Thursday, January 26, 2023

…those insipid Verizon commercials that I see while watching the NFL games on Sunday. Which, while bad, are not nearly as annoying as the multitude of Spectrum (wireless, business and whatever Spectrum One is) ads that they stick in practically every commercial break all dang day long.

Times Miata Driven since 10/28/22: 6

 

Tagged: CTBNL, Miata Moves, Miata Photos, Rants, TV

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Monday, January 23, 2023

Just A Regular Edition of SORT
As of Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1998 Lotus
Elise
2020 Mahindra
Roxor
1994 BMW
316i Touring
That face reminds me of an NA Miata. 3/4 scale Jeep that may not be street legal. The actual word touring is in its name.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 2006 Caterham Super Seven SV Sold for $45,000 on 1/20/23
Off-Road: 2012 Ford F-150 Raptor SuperCrew Sold for $52,500 on 1/22/23
Touring: 2012 Bentley Continental Supersports ISR Sold for $95,000 on 1/18/23

Tagged: Cars, Sport-Off Road-Touring

Another Minute and a Half of Internet Fame

Friday, January 20, 2023

The Everyday Driver podcast has been a must listen ever since 2018 when I started listening to it while I did my daily walk when Donna was at the gym swimming. Now a days it is my audio companion while riding the exercise bike 2 of the 3 times a week I do so. They actually do 3 episodes a week, but one of them is just the audio of something off their Test Drive channel on YouTube and I’ve already watched the video.

For the two original podcasts they do each week they post a note on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter asking for questions that someone might want answered. They can’t answer every one of them, so they cherry pick the ones they are interested in answering. Back in May of 2019 they actually answered one of mine. Well, it happened again.

The photo above was yesterday’s Bing Wallpaper, it is of Park City, Utah which happens to be where our intrepid Everyday Driver guys reside. So, yesterday when I saw their anybody got questions post on Instagram, with tongue firmly in cheek, I added this to their list, “Park City is the Bing wallpaper of the day and I’m trying to find your houses on there…”

Here is the audio of them answering my “question.”
https://www.mr-miata.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Everyday-Driver.mp3

Tagged: Everyday Driver, Internet, Podcasts

Magnetic Miracle

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

About twenty years ago we discovered Easyclip glasses as a replacement for having a pair of sunglasses and a pair of glasses. Somewhere around a decade ago I moved to photochromatic lenses because I was tired of having to put the clips on and off. Donna still uses the magnetic Easyclip style because she hates the time lag when when moving from shade to sun and vice versa.

Two weeks ago when Donna went to put her magnetic clip-on sunglasses that came as a set with her regular glasses they weren’t where she expected them to be.

We looked everywhere for them. All her jacket pockets, her purse and the knapsack that acts her alternate purse. We checked in all the nooks and crannies in the interiors of the Miata and the Mini. We looked on the floor and every horizontal surface around the house, from the dresser in her closet to desk in the living room. We asked at our favorite coffee shop where we were the day before if anyone had turned them into their lost & found. They were just gone.

We hightailed down to Rite Aid to get an aftermarket set of clip-on sunglasses. They are spring loaded instead of the magnetic, but the fit is pretty good and were a darn sight cheaper than getting a real replacement. The only thing we could figure as they fell out of her pocket getting in or out of the car somewhere during our running around the day before.

While doing laundry today, what did I find at the bottom of the dryer after pulling out all the clothes? Right, her Easyclip sunglasses!

Had they been in a piece of clothing that got washed two weeks ago and the magnetic part stuck to somewhere inside the dryer drum? I find that that hard to believe, we do a load of laundry almost everyday and a couple times a week we two loads, those clip-ons would have appeared before now.

This was eerily reminiscent of the Easter Miracle of 2018.

Tagged: WTF

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Monday, January 16, 2023

Super Wildcard Weekend Edition of SORT
As of Monday, January 16, 2023 at 3:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
2006 Caterham
Super Seven SV
2012 Ford F-150
Raptor SuperCrew
2012 Bentley Continental Supersports ISR
What used to be Wildcard weekend in the NFL has now become Super Wildcard Weekend. What makes it super? Who does besides the National Football League? So is this upcoming weekend’s slate of games being elevated from plain old Divisional Round to Super as well? Inquiring minds want to know.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sports: 1985 Porsche 911 Sold for $90,000 on 1/10/23
Off-Road: 2022 Ford Bronco Bid to $53,000 on 1/15/23
Touring: 1969 Citroen ID19 Sold for $19,269 on 1/12/23

Tagged: Cars, Sport-Off Road-Touring

30,000 Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Out running around this afternoon because we had a few things to take care of. We needed to find a new dentist (possibly another separate blog post.) We stopped at Goodwill to restock our shelves with jigsaw puzzles. We have done 3 so far this year and only had about 4 left in the queue. So we picked up another eight. Seven of them had green tags which meant they were half off the $4.29 regular price. The eighth one we gladly paid full price for because it still had the factory seals intact, so we are sure to have one puzzle with all its pieces.

Those eight puzzles don’t total to 30,000 pieces, but on our way to our last stop, Wendy’s for Jr Frostys, the Mini rolled past thirty thousand miles.


On last Saturday the Miata got driven twice. Firstly I went and just randomly drive around for 6 or so miles because the poor car hadn’t moved for a couple weeks. Then later that day it was time to head down to the local cannabis stock to stock up on our “sleep” medicine – Wyld Elderberry Gummies.

Times Miata Driven since 10/28/22: 5

 

Tagged: Miata Moves, Mini Mileage
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