I bought a thing

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 09/01/2018 at 20:50 • Filed to: None

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I grew up in Laguna Hills CA, a (now) city that has had just one car dealership, a combination Buick/Mazda shop. Buick I guess because the t own was originally started as a second location of Leisure World (or Seizure World, as we rudely called it in high school...), a large planned retirement community; I recently realized that I am just four years away from being able to purchase a home in this community O_0. The high school, only fours year old when I started there, was right on the edge of LW, so it doesn’t take much imagination to guess what a hazardous stretch of road that was.

I almost bought a car here back when I was in high school, a 1983 Mazda GLC, but I got a Rabbit GTI instead. I had plenty of friends that did buy here; I distinctly remember lots of B2000 SE pickups driven by classmates (and RX-7s by the rich ones).   Now that I drive a Mazda I thought a frame from my hometown Mazda shop  would be a neat addition to my car, even if it didn’t say ‘ Mazda’ on it (I think most of those were plastic and didn’t survive) . I’m debating whether to actually mount this on my car as the value of these old frames seems quite high, and this one already has a little ‘patina’ to it. In addition, nobody 1,800 miles away in Missouri would get the connection between the frame and my car.

someassemblyrequired > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 09/01/2018 at 21:58

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Meh, my NA has a Chevrolet frame since it was purchased at Lee Johnson in the Seattle area (which at the time a Chevy dealer with a Mazda problem). I get lots of funny looks around DC with Washington plates and a Seattle-area suburb dealer frame on a ratty Miata . People think I’m nuts - it’s highly entertaining.