My Mazda Miata is a link to a carefree chapter of my life, and this one — my third — will always have a home with me
Summertime begins the day I renew the insurance on my Mazda Miata – it’s the start of convertible season.
Over three years, I gave it as much TLC as my meagre postrecession earnings would allow, but as the odometer rolled over to 200,000 kilometres, I knew we were on borrowed time. Seventeen years of harsh winters and deferred maintenance were not kind to the thin sheet metal and featherweight chassis that made it such a nimble, deft-handling sports car when it rolled off the showroom floor. My Miata needed real help, preferably on someone else’s dime.
firm. I came into the office at 7 a.m. and left past midnight every single day, decompressing on the drive home in a powerful European performance car that I’d presumptuously purchased to show that I’d “arrived.” Again, another Miata, but this one had just 38,000 km on it and it had never been driven in the winter. At the owner’s home, I examined it with an unsteady hand, prepared to encounter the structural weak spots, the signs of a slipping clutch or a soft top that was about to tear. It was so perfect that the new car smell still lingered. I bought it on the spot.
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