Because they wanted to.
It's not like they ruined a special car and it looks better cared for than 90% of the Miata I see on the road. Around here, Miata are about as well cared for as a 15 year old Nissan. Beat to E36 M3, crap after market muffler, and driven by an idiot. At least you can see that one coming before he cuts you off in traffic.
It's something you shouldn't be looking at, but can't stop.
Toyman01 + Sized and said:Because they wanted to.
It's not like they ruined a special car and it looks better cared for than 90% of the Miata I see on the road. Around here, Miata are about as well cared for as a 15 year old Nissan. Beat to E36 M3, crap after market muffler, and driven by an idiot. At least you can see that one coming before he cuts you off in traffic.
'Round here, that demographic drives a Rogue, or some other generic mid sized cute-ute.
Miatas are only driven by old farts on sunny days on their way to the golf course or something. You never see them anywhere else.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:TheRX7Project said:I can't stop looking at this and wondering how they made te '57 nose fit, while appearing proportionally unchanged, yet the '60 rear is clearly quite narrowed and the Miata portion is also unchanged.
Big cars were a lot smaller than they are now, which helps. People of a certain age think old cars = big and new cars = small, but cars kinda started out smallish and grew ever larger until just about exactly 1977, when everything got reset a bit.
I spent some time in a '56 a ways back (big block powered, high compression big cam, and I was tuning the 700-R4's shiftpoints with governor weight hokey-pokey) and was shocked at how small it was.
I know "big" old cars aren't really as big as people think, but -in my mind at least- surely a '57 Chevy is significantly wider than a Miata.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
The 20 yo demographic has taken them over. What used to be Civics with fart cans are now Miatas. The ones with money are buying the twins. Most with crappy exhaust and bumper covers held on with zip ties.
Toyman01 + Sized and said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
The 20 yo demographic has taken them over. What used to be Civics with fart cans are now Miatas. The ones with money are buying the twins. Most with crappy exhaust and bumper covers held on with zip ties.
Twins are cheaper than Miatas, though. A decent Miata is like $10-15k now. Decent meaning that it's still all red, although it probably doesn't have pinch welds anymore since it'd been all cut out and Bondo'd over. A 20y/o with that kind of money to burn is going to buy an SUV or a pickup, because their parents are of my generation, raised them badly, and we're idiots.
(pretty sure ALL NAs were red, judging by what I ever see on the road. Any other possible colors are a figment of someone's imagination)
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