Category: Project Cars

It’s Official, 1 Year With Roadster

[Ed Note – I couldn’t resist a good chance at some Turkey puns back in November, so here is a look back at my first year as a Miata owner. It was a little early though, as today is actually

Big Meet For A Small Car: Miatapalooza 2013

In the past, I’d been to what I thought of as large car meets. Forty or fifty Subarus? Sure! That’s enormous! But I recently learned that it really isn’t. I’d heard that the Miata community was large, but little did

The Roadster’s New Kicks

The Miata is back from the shop, where it underwent some much needed maintenance repairs in order to be drivable in time for the April car events taking place in the Tampa Bay area. Now that the roadster is driving

Hellaflushed

On the weekend before last I started getting the Miata on the road to better health with multiple coolant flushes. The system was quite dirty, so the first step was draining the radiator. Simple enough, it’s just removing a plastic

Who Gets A Sunburn In January!?

Who gets a sunburn in January? I do, that’s who. This morning we drove out to pick up our new (to us) Miata and I refused to be dissuaded from driving with the top down all the way home… for an hour and

Rummaging for a Roadster (updated)

My obsession with the little red roadsters has hit full boil recently. Just a couple of months ago, I was talking about how I must acquire a roadster, after a quick drive that I shared with one. Now with the Rabbit

Lucky Thunder’s Final Meet

A week prior to the Honda Grand Prix of St. Pete, I stumbled upon a post in the Tampa thread on evolutionm.net (a Mitsubishi Lancer and Lancer Evolution enthusiast site that I frequent) about a local meet just around the

Goodbye Lucky Thunder

It’s been a long road, and at long last it’s come time to sell my Lancer. It’s reached what you’d call it’s full and final stage of tune for what I wanted to do with it. I held it off

Dirty, Flirty, Thirty!

I turned 30 today. I did as little as possible. Outside of videogames, it was pretty unproductive. All in all, a good, quiet day. I finally got the Lancer fixed (mostly), just the motor mounts left to revert back to