I know everyone has been anxiously awaiting an update on this much more than another Hollis track tire review. 
I actually needed a 195/70-15, not a 205. Luckily figured that out before ordering and mounting a new set. But unluckily, that meant I found the same thing I found last time - there are aren't any all terrain's in that size, the only thing with a "rugged look" are snow tires. There were a couple of 205/70-15 options, but clearance is really tight to the unibody ahead of the rear tires, and I needed something I knew would work. I needed this car back in service and back in Charlotte.
Didn't want to do the snow tire thing again, so, I wound up with Armstrong Blu Trac PC All season performance tires. Boring, nondescript, very cheap passenger car tires - but 4.9 out of 5 stars on Walmart.com!
Found an independent mechanic to mount them up whose shop was right around the corner from all the devastation in Biltmore Village. He bought the business a month before Helene hit! Hope he makes it. We drove through the area, and man it is still a mess. Lots whose businesses were wiped clean now are where they are piling up debris. Piles of totaled cars, some looked like they spent an hour in a giant rock tumbler. Saw an SUV still half buried a few feet off the road. Pretty sobering - going to take a long time to recover/rebuild.
Trip home was uneventful other than the battery being so dead that it would not light the interior light and after jump started it would sag the voltage from the Alt enough to stall the car at idle. After 2.5 hours driving home, batt still dead - 24 hours on my charger's "recover" setting, and seems to be doing fine.
Oh almost forgot, this is about cheap tires. The guy who mounted them said to me "these are ...um, not great tires". But, you know they're better than I expected. I drove about 10 miles on really twisty roads to get to I-40, and the car handles way better than it has any right to with the 3 inch suspension lift and the tall tires. didn't squeal at all with some pretty spirited driving, and turn in is actually pretty sharp. Kinda of a testament to how good the Miata chassis is.
Anyway, if I get a couple of years and 5k miles from them, that's probably enough. Not sure of the plan for the car other than cheap commuter that is easy to park in my office's absurdly tight parking deck. I will likely pull the lift kit off at some point, but many other house and car projects in the queue ahead of that.
And from the "my neighbor's love me" file:
