My Gateway Drug into the Automotive World 

"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion) 11/03/2016 at 22:31 • Filed to: Miata, Mazda

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You can make a bad decision with your head and a good decision with your heart at same time.

I bought this very Miata off Craigslist with a salvage title, broken radiator, broken speedometer and odometer, shot suspension, front end damage, no brakes, a cracked windshield and a leaky soft top. Oh... Did I mention it had 300,000 miles too?

1.5 years and 15,000 miles later, I’ve turned this car around, replacing every single component with the absolute highest quality parts I could find. It’s not a garage queen, it’s my current interpretation of the ultimate daily. Xida coilovers (squee!!) and a Fujitsubo exhaust (so jdm) are going on soon. Hopefully I can find a nice pair of s2k seats in the near future as well. We’ll see.

Here’s to many more miles, and many more smiles.

atfsgeoff > AestheticsInMotion 11/03/2016 at 22:40

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This post gives me a smile. Nothing is quite as satisfying to me as reviving a poor old car on life support, and bringing it back to daily driver duty.

You know, this might be some deeply repressed emotional damage working its way up, but I think I like cars more than people because when people die, you lose them forever. A car is always fixable, no matter how damaged. They never really die, people just give up on them.

Thank you for not giving up on that Miata.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > AestheticsInMotion 11/03/2016 at 22:40

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You know how’s people said “no one is ever going to restore 90s cars, like people restore 60s cars.” Well this proves them wrong. Hell I’d saw it qualifies as a resto-mod.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > AestheticsInMotion 11/03/2016 at 22:44

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The bodywork looks really straight. Has it been repainted?

AestheticsInMotion > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/03/2016 at 22:46

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Oh man. I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact that a 90's car can be TWENTY-SIX years old now...

Hopefully people will have access to restorable cars for many more generations

AestheticsInMotion > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 11/03/2016 at 22:48

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No, just some serious elbow grease with the waxing. Besides the hood alignment, this side’s not too bad.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > AestheticsInMotion 11/03/2016 at 22:56

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That’s really good for 300k.

MonkeePuzzle > AestheticsInMotion 11/03/2016 at 22:58

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sounds awesome!

lets see some before pics

AestheticsInMotion > MonkeePuzzle 11/03/2016 at 23:08

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I dropped my old phone with all the pictures into a lake and they weren’t backed up... I have a few Gopro shots though!

Two weeks in, putting in a new radiator and some new stock calipers behind a Napa. Good times

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > AestheticsInMotion 11/03/2016 at 23:41

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I did the same thing, buying a car that made no logical sense to buy, but did it anyway. Spent way too much money fixing it in the process. Mine had been a ricer’s play thing who put poorly modifying it before maintenance and upkeep.

I gave up and sold it though because I was scared of conquering the bodywork and rust repair it desperately needed. I regret it so much.

KeedyT > AestheticsInMotion 11/04/2016 at 09:10

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I can relate :-) I didn’t keep mine for too long after making it a metric crap-ton better though.

ateamfan42 > AestheticsInMotion 11/04/2016 at 14:17

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Here’s to many more miles, and many more smiles.

I just passed one year of ownership of my first Miata, and I can’t believe I didn’t pick one up ages ago. The smiles-per-dollar “value” of this car is unbelievable.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > AestheticsInMotion 11/05/2016 at 00:26

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Nice!