I Found a Miata!

"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck) 08/18/2016 at 08:26 • Filed to: None

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Hey guys! I found a Miata!

Not just any Miata. I found what is arguably the most famous Miata on the internet right now. Yes, I found the Miata! The one made famous by this video:

Here she sits, just waiting for rescue.

Sadly, I doubt she will be saved.

If the water didn’t destroy her, the smell surely will. This whole area smells like dead fish in a swamp.

Any takers?

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/18/2016 at 08:39

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Panic can make you forget how to do things.

The NA Miata has a manual folding soft top that can be operated with one hand. Had she had her wits about her, that woman would easily have been able to get herself and her dog out of the car. But in such an extreme situation, I can definitely see why she forgot about that roof.

random001 > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 08/18/2016 at 08:49

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I feel like if you own a Miata, you should probably be able to remember that it’s a Miata, but I’ve also never been flooded in before...

TheRealBicycleBuck > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 08/18/2016 at 08:50

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It wasn’t her car. In a weird game of less-than-six-degrees-of-separation, I have a connection to this lady. She is the girlfriend of the owner of the car who is the former father-in-law of my wife’s cousin. All that is to say that the rescued woman didn’t own the car and likely didn’t know how to operate the top.

jjhats > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 08/18/2016 at 08:55

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it could be worse. one corvette owner got locked in his corvette because the battery died and it only has push button openers. there is an emergency release hidden underneath but he completely forgot about the targa and stayed inside until he died from heat exhaustion

LongbowMkII > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/18/2016 at 09:10

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$200 to owner/insurance

$10,000 to flyin Miata

Months of work.

Not a bad deal for a custom sports car....

TheRealBicycleBuck > random001 08/18/2016 at 09:24

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She didn’t own it.

TheRealBicycleBuck > jjhats 08/18/2016 at 09:26

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I read about that one. That fellow had a long time to think about how to escape and still didn’t make it.

TheRealBicycleBuck > LongbowMkII 08/18/2016 at 09:27

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I’m pretty sure you’d have to drive it into a swimming pool full of bleach to get the smell out, even if the car was gutted. It was all I could do to roll down the window to take a few pictures. This is a backwater flooding area, so there wasn’t a current to wash out the stench.

random001 > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/18/2016 at 09:33

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Makes sense. Sorry, video won’t play for me for some reason, so I just have the static pictures.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/18/2016 at 10:18

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Hmmmm..... I bet you could pick up a KA pretty cheap.

The Stig's former college room mate > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/18/2016 at 15:40

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i always wanted to make an amphibious miata

daender > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/18/2016 at 18:30

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Totally reposting those pics and linking to this post over on Miata.net. A few members have been wondering about the condition of the Miata...heck, one of them thinks it might be his former NA.

TheRealBicycleBuck > daender 08/18/2016 at 19:32

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Just gimme the credit!