Well, since you liked driving Rick's car so well, why not throw a set of
stiffer springs under your Miata and play with the CSP guys? It would
certainly be cheaper than buying another car.
Scot
----- Original Message -----
From: "craig boyle" <craig_autox@yahoo.com>
To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:49 PM
Subject: Proof that cars can talk
> My wife insists that cars are intelligent emotional
> beings, I disagree arguing that they are really just
> hunks of metal and plastic, that's one reason my car
> doesn't have a name although it's license plate
> (3LVS..) resembles Elvis.
>
> Maybe she's right.
>
> Friday afternoon saw us at a Honda dealership looking
> over a nice new Spa yellow S2000. They could let me
> have it for $7500 over MSRP and I'd get a test drive
> some time after the paperwork. Despite driving it
> nowhere, I got the "if it's what you want.." seal of
> approval.
>
> Step forward to Saturday. I'm on grid, ready to run,
> helmet on, gloves on. Turn the key: "click" . Hmmm.
> Try it again: "whirr, click" and again and again. Doh!
> Wanna psyche yourself out, try this.
>
> Fellow B-stockers Chris and Tony try to give me a push
> start, but that does not work. Pat and John Kelly join
> in and I get back to the pits and jump-started by a
> kind fellow in a BMW.
>
> From then on, through tire changes and gas fillups,
> until the time I get home Saturday afternoon I leave
> the engine running. Rolling down the driveway at home,
> I'm greeted with "See, it knows you're going to buy an
> S2000 and it's sulking" The fact that the Miata had
> not been near the Honda dealership was explained by
> the fact that our ZX3 *talked* to the Miata at night.
>
> How could I fault the logic?, my own theory was that
> Arie Villasol had cast a spell (Joseph Lucas, Prince
> of Darkness, style), on the Miata after I made some
> jokes about MGB reliability.
>
> So, of course the car starts fine when I shut it down
> and again the next morning and all day Sunday.
>
> So fun runs come, and I switch between Rick Gould's
> CSP Miata, Eric Cheung's S2000 and Scott L's, '01
> Miata Sport. Fortunately, my car is out of earshot,
> parked way off in the boonies, so I have no fears
> about it getting into any jealous rages.
>
> The S2000 has more power than I'm able to handle, I
> can't get it to go fast. The '01 Miata is so easy to
> rotate and position on the track that I wonder if it
> wouldn't be a fun car to own. But, I really can't
> remember anything as strongly as Rick's car. It was
> astounding. I was speechless. It was just like a big
> go-kart. Wow!
>
> So, my brief affair with an S2000 over, *my* Miata
> starts and runs fine, for now.
>
> So who knows about the right factory options for a
> Boxster? ;-)
>
>
> Craig
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