The Newest Addition: 1993 Mazda Miata & a Linkup

THE NEWEST ADDITION

My husband and I have welcomed the newest addition to our car collection, our 1993 Mazda Miata!  Here is shitbox number two as we like to call it haha.  If you’ve been here for a while, you know that we are a car couple, and many different cars have made their appearance over the years on this blog.  Whether it be from my own cars or my husband’s, and now the ones we share equally.  I even write for a site called A Girls Guide to Cars.

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OUR LOVE FOR CARS

My husband’s love for cars started way before mine, but it wasn’t until I watched The Fast and the Furious that I truly felt like I could belong to the “car club.”  I call it a club, because for the longest time while I enjoyed cars, I thought I wasn’t allowed to be a part of it because it was for the guys.  Some men still think this way unfortunately (I get the dirty looks at our shop all the time).  When I watched The Fast and the Furious in high school, I saw Letty, and thought, wow, girls can be a part of this too!  That’s when I started to really get into cars.

My first car was a manual, and I wanted to learn how to drive manual for multiple reasons.  The first being that I just wanted to know how to drive manual since it’s not common here in the U.S. and this way I could drive any car.  Secondly, I watched a lot of movies and had a very active imagination as a kid, so I told my dad, just in case I get kidnapped and the only getaway car is a manual I can get myself to safety.  Lastly, I wanted to have more of a connection with my car.  Now that I have an automatic again because of my mom car, I don’t have that same connection with the car.

Fast forward to when my husband and I met in 2005.  He had a red Firebird that he of course modified, and I asked him if we could swap cars just so I can drive his Firebird.  My husband had a love for European cars and I had a VW Jetta at the time, so we swapped.  However, little did we know, his dad was actually in the one parking lot that I had driven into and he got yelled at for letting someone drive his car haha.  Many years later when we started dating in 2014/2015 (I say the two years because we made it super official in 2015, but started going on dates in 2014), I met his dad for the first time.  During dinner I told his dad I was the one who was driving his Firebird that night and we had a good laugh about it.

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THE STORY BEHIND THE MIATA

Now let’s move on to the story about the Miata.  Over a year ago, one of our customers had driven in to get her oil changed on her 1993 Mazda Miata, and it’s too low so we couldn’t do it over the grates, she had to have her car put on the lift.  Well, my husband got to talking to her and told her if she ever wants to sell the Miata, he will buy it.  It kind of became a little bit of a joke over the past year+.  My husband wanted this particular Miata because it’s the limited edition one.  It has the BBS wheels, red leather interior, and the older Miata’s didn’t have AC, unless it was the LE one.  This particular one is number 809 out of 1500 made.  Sure enough, the other day, our customer and her dad came into the shop to tell us that she’s selling the Miata.  Even though we’re saving for a house, and have a baby on the way, I told my husband he has to buy it.  He can’t pass this one up.  I mean, it basically fell into his lap.  Plus, he had a little extra spending money saved up for a rainy day, so he bought it.

The Miata does need a lot of work, which is why it’s more of a project car than a daily.  This will be our going out on the weekend when we can find a babysitter for the baby to have a little date night.  The plan is to keep this car for as long as possible so maybe when the baby is old enough, it could be our (meaning myself and the baby, or hubs and the baby because it’s a two seater) fun beach car or the car we take to go get ice cream and lunch.  We also have been yelling “pop up, up and down headlights” for the past few days because there’s a Youtube channel that we watched called Donut Media and they made an entire song dedicated to pop up headlights haha.  This actually started as a joke because they made an entire episode talking about pop up headlights and James just started yelling pop up, up and down headlights.  Eventually they made it into a song, which I’ll leave linked below.

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LET’S MOVE ON TO THE LINKUP!

Now that y’all got to see our newest addition to the car collection (we plan on eventually getting many more), let’s move on to the linkup!

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