Miatatude

I’ve written a page with the story of how long it took to buy my first Miata (Brian Buys A Miata) and it took 108 days from first test drive to driving it home. I’ve even written a blog post showing the Birth Announcement of its arrival on the 7th of November. Earlier this week, knowing it was around this time of year, I wondered just what day it was when I put that deposit down. Backing up 108 days from the November pick up date and you come up with today, July 22nd which was a Saturday that year.

Tonight we put a new bit of carpet in the dining room. To do this we needed to move the sideboard and so while we were at it, it was time to dust off all the photo albums (kids, go ask your parents what photo album means to them) that sit on the middle shelf. Whenever we do this, it always leads to several hours of traipsing down memory lane.

One of the albums was from stuff that happened in 1989, which included us moving to SC from NJ, buying a house and most importantly, buying a Miata

The purchase of the 1990 “Smurf” Blue Miata happened on November 7, 1989. We traded that car in 6 years later on a 1995 Lauguna Blue in November of 1995. The ’95 was traded in on the Garnet Red colored Emperor in November 2003. As you you can see, there is a pattern here, so any talk of buying a new Miata now is premature. So this will be the last post you see here that includes any 2016 ND Miata discussion.

The new Miatas are available in the the three levels, the Sport (AKA: the base model), the Club (AKA: the boy racer) and the Grand Touring (AKA: the Luxo Version.) All I want is the Sport model because I don’t need any of the geegaws on the upper models and I don’t want to spent the three to five thousand dollars more. The Sport is available in 4 colors. I wanted black so I could vinyl wrap it in a non-standard color and be the envy of all those driving just regular color Miatas. Donna didn’t like the black color and she didn’t like spending $25k on a new car and then spending an additional 10% more just to get a different color (hard to argue logic with desire.) Donna looked at the stock colors and offered up the red which I said no to for un-understood psychological reasons, so that left white and something called ceramic (a satin metallic very light gray.)

Right now, white is the winner, but come back in November to see what happens.

Fortunately we can agree on all the important stuff…

In what may or may not remain in the realm of a thought exercise, we can not seem to agree on what color the new Miata should be. Let’s recap: the sport is available in red, a couple shades of white and black. Donna would pick the red and I would pick anything but.

My ideal solution would be the black then wrap it. So we ordered some sample colors of the vinyl. They were all here by last Friday night and Sunday I got around to sticking them to the trunk lid of the Emperor. I liked the middle blue on the left and Donna chose the middle copper color on the right.

Below are the three OEM colors, my best photoshop versions of the colors we picked and someone else’s ‘shop of our compromise of a white with a blue stripe.