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A common question heard in our house: What time is it?

My wife wears a Garmin smartwatch that probably possesses more computing power than the first lunar landers: Time, date, weather, vital signs and more sit right there on her wrist.

I, on the other hand, favor traditional, old-school automatics. I put an older Tissot PRS 516 back into service as …

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East Coast Mojo's sister?

Well, I went to Lowe's this morning for some shoe glue in my Miata, with an Invicta automatic on my wrist, a Beach Boys CD in the player. I'm older than you by a chunk (69) and when I go to our local MiMiata meetings I give up a decade or more to the older members present. It's a universal age car.

Edit: ....and I was wearing an old pair of K-Swiss leather runners. Does that make me cool or uncool?

In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :

K-Swiss? That's a name I haven't heard of in a long time.

Interestingly enough I'm looking at a friend's 94 Miata, it has a lot of goodies but he's well known to thrash his cars. I have two friends (one that knows him, and one that doesn't) that both recommend I don't do it, but against their best intentions I really want to.

Miata's are made to be thrashed..!!

DeadSkunk (Warren) said:

It's a universal age car.

Our demographics back that up. Our customers are split surprisingly evenly across age ranges, other than the relative lack of NDs in the youngest cohort simply due to the value of the car.

Also - 95% male :) That's not an estimate. So much for it being a chick car. 

In reply to Keith Tanner :

I belong to the MiMiata club here in Michigan and what I find a little surprising is how many couples in the club own two, or more Miatas. In one case the lady drives her car to the hair and nail salon every other week and that's it. I've never even seen her car, just the husband's, and hers  (a 1999) cracked 10,000 miles last year.

Also, FWIW, my brother has a Miata, and our parents have a Miata. 

I fear that I may be a Miata owner again in a month or two.

In reply to Woody (Forum Supportum) :

Do it. 

In reply to David S. Wallens :

Now he has to or he can't show his cowboy face around here again. 

I am so very very ready for my Miata to come back from the shop.  It's been there since April I think...feels like forever.

Keith Tanner said:

In reply to David S. Wallens :

Now he has to or he can't show his cowboy face around here again. 

Long story, but I recently spent an afternoon with the guy who bought one of my old cars about ten years ago. He mentioned that he will probably be parting ways with it next month and I have first shot at it. I don't have any place to keep it, but we will see how this plays out.