If there was one on the road who would notice it?

If you have to sell the one you have you don’t have enough money and would be denied. You probably bought a wrecked one and did a Gas Monkey job on it anyway.

1) CAFE.

it depends on what bit has landed in just wrong place. Sometimes just letting it spin in neutral a little does it, other times I have have to move the car a fraction of an inch in first then back to reverse once at rest.

Ford has been using synchros for reverse lately. At least the MT82 has one.

Some modern transmissions have a synchro for reverse. For those without I’ve only gone into first when it doesn’t go into reverse because it stopped in just the wrong spot.

It’s probably a gawker media rule.

At the time these cars (and many others) were just used hunks o’ crap. Sure there were a few people who valued them as some old copies of automobile quarterly show me, but to most everyone they were just used cars.

That’s what I was thinking too... someone’s homemade canvas pop up.

That’s a huge premium for a car only those in the know can tell from a 308.

Not when I had asked early in the thread.

thanks. looks about as I figured.

Any photos of today’s miata next to an ‘89 miata?

A body panel is just stamped sheet metal. no need to repair a tear unless its no longer being made. A torn removable steel body panel is just replaced. Nobody tries to weld the tear to fix it if they can buy a new one. Not worth it at a $100/hr or more labor cost.

Motorola two-way radio is or used to be in florida. Florida is also an extreme environment good for testing a wide variety of products that are used outdoors. But other than that I can’t think of any engineering or manufacturing use for the state.

That species isn’t native to the USA and never found at cheap gas stations.

Aluminum isn’t a bitch. Been using it for many years in products. Extrusions, die castings, sand castings, and sheet. Not autobody panels but for all sorts of other things. Generally anodized or powder coated for finish. Sometimes just mill finish. I get aluminum parts powder coated on a production basis for very…

Is this a serious question?

If it’s that expensive for a body shop to do it, it would be cheaper for to simply carry spare panels from the manufacturer in all the factory colors. Brand new swap it on. I can say for a fact it would cost no where near that to paint on a factory level.

All I see for the next 8 years is “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos” no matter who wins.