Competition

Very nice Bob! I'm not surprised by your attraction to the Miata. My Uncle had one. It was actually his second one before selling it and a Harley together recently to buy a BMW roadster. Still in his garage.. under a tattered canvas tarp, is a 65 MGB. It hasn't moved in 40+ years. It was repainted the original light-blue color just before he retired it. The main reason he took it off the road was his enlistment in the USAF.. but the car also needed front-suspension parts that were hard to find. I'm sure you know what parts I'm referring to. It's the integral strut/control-arm assemblies. At the time, J.C. Whitney had a retro-fit design available.. but he didn't want to go that route. Today.. you wouldn't want to run it on the pump-gas that's available.. without pulling the cylinder-head and having the valve-seats hard-faced. Of course.. for the infrequent "blast".. you can pay $5.00+/gal. for 100LL aviation-fuel from the local airport.

Good luck with the Miata! You may want to invest in a radar-detector!