That’s what I have, and here’s why it sucks:

This is my point exactly, I don’t need a full body on frame SUV with low range and locking diffs, I don’t like crossovers either but I do need something that won’t be destroyed in 6 months by the awful roads I have to drive in. Hopefully something that’s fun to drive.

I have to agree, there aren’t many good new cars on the market with good ground clearance and tall tires. Maybe the WRX but I think even that would give me headaches with the wheels and the low front approach angle.

Nice! My dad used to have one of these in yellow, by far the most comfortable car I’ve ever been in.

A few years ago I got my mom’s old ‘79 Civic with the intention of restoring it, since it’s (possibly) the first car I ever rode in.

You are correct I’m not in the US, but just a few thousand miles to the south so we get a lot of US market cars here. I’ve actually never seen an MGC in the flesh, only one for sale, in the US actually near NY if I remember correctly.

There’s also the MGC or the GT V8 that came that way from the factory, or you could try to rebuild or “refresh” your car’s engine to get at least the power it originally came with.

At least a torque converter does have some advantages when offroading, but in a Miata?

Actually, most people driving them are in Latin America and Africa, where they certainly do use the off road ability.

We’re leaving this one bone stock with the original 1.8 (although fully rebuilt).

Yes I love how that color came out, that’s actually a friend’s car my dad and I are working on (to help pay the Jag’s restoration) so I’m pretty jealous, it’s going to turn heads for sure!

Doing full restorations on these:

That orange Alfa looks amazing, it probably would have broken on that jump on asphalt they did as well.

An actual Safari 911 probably would make it, the engine is in the back as well which should also help a bit. Still, they were meant for jumps on dirt which has a lot more “give” than asphalt, jumping pretty much any car on a hard surface is asking for parts to be broken. (Lesson I learned when I was 16)

Not German but on my dad’s Jag we’ve had #3 extend to about 2 years now, as once the engine was out we decided to tackle the rust in the bodywork and that just increased the size of the project about 20 times. 

On the other end of the scale here in Guatemala there’d probably be a tire, a tree branch or if we’re feeling fancy maybe a cone.

I don’t think cost, this was probably more expensive to do than a conventional 2 wheel design because of the custom heavy duty components. Handling is also probably not good but maybe it has a very small turning radius?

Obvious answer

Sort of, yeah, it’s not an instant explosion or anything as dramatic as that. Here are a couple of articles I found.

There’s actually not that much of a difference between vacuum and sea level pressure, which is about 15 psi.