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As some of you know, I have been looking for an MX-5 recently. Well, this past weekend I finally got one. My wife (Heather) and I flew up to Airlie Beach on Saturday and bought the 1994 that I talked about in this thread. I love it!

It drives very nicely. The engine pulls well and doesn't make any strange sounds. I climbed all over it and can't see any leaks or signs of a major accident. There is a slight buzzing coming from somewhere underneath at certain rpms, almost certainly a heat shield or something similar. The bonnet, left door and left rear quarter panel have slight oxidation. This morning I have hand polished the door and quarter panel and they're coming up great.

But enough talk, time for some pics! Driving from Airlie Beach to Brisbane made for some great photo locations.

Airlie Beach:






Mackay:






Clairview:




South of Rockhampton:




It came with a huge, wooden shift knob. It's close to 3cm taller than the NB knob that 1Red5 kindly sold me.




It has the stock NA8 steering wheel (love it!), but instead of a Nardi logo in the centre it has a Mazdaspeed logo. Looks kind of old school to me




That's all for now.

Mark

Welcome, looks like a ver clean example! Congrats.

Congratulations Mark! I still remember when I got mine. For the first 72hours, I am sure I spent 60hours in and around the car

She looks great, and I was a bit off on guessing the horn-button, but it looks to be a genuine MS one, so SCORE on that account!

A few of us are planning an imprompty dodgy-day down at Jimboomba this Saturday, I'll send you a PM about it.

Catch ya soon.

Andrew

Welcome! What a great NA8. Looks just like mine.

Very nice, congrats.

Hammer wrote:Looks just like mine.

No... no it doesn't.... you lucky bastard you.

i'm trying to find the "Like" button but i'm having problems locating it.

Nice... and welcome aboard.

Very nice.

Always good to have some perfect weather for that first drive as well!

Thanks for all the positive comments guys. I've polished about a 1/3 of the bonnet and it is looking great too. Here's a list of things I hope to add/do in the coming weeks and months:

- Vent rings from Bensales' group buy
- Replace the missing A/C button
- OEM metal sill plates
- Repaint the very faded beaver panel
- Paint the brake calipers red
- Replace both rubber shift boots
- Bump the timing to 14 degrees

All fairly little things, but then I do tend to prefer a mostly stock look.

Congrats Mark, and onward and upward with your mods!

Really neat looking example. Classic in every respect.

Ahh... the MX-5 honeymoon. Is it ever really over??

! score ! ... probably as chuffed as I am right now with my first 5 too

will have to meet in person at an event one day... thankyou for the hints and info on ol'dodgyRed , lol.
...and introduce you to white hardtop (yet named).

congrats!

p.s. nice photos.

NZMiata wrote:Thanks for all the positive comments guys. I've polished about a 1/3 of the bonnet and it is looking great too. Here's a list of things I hope to add/do in the coming weeks and months:

- Vent rings from Bensales' group buy
- Replace the missing A/C button
- OEM metal sill plates
- Repaint the very faded beaver panel
- Paint the brake calipers red
- Replace both rubber shift boots
- Bump the timing to 14 degrees

All fairly little things, but then I do tend to prefer a mostly stock look.

Nice pickup With that list it sounds to me that you too will be needing to host your first dodgy day soon - ar at least attend one.

You might find that with enough love, you can polish the beaver panel back to its proper colour and save on the respray - I have to keep the polish up to mine and the whole reason it fades seems to be that the paint loses as much of its oils as its colour.

Thanks for the tip Michael. I've had a quick go at part of the beaver panel and so far it still looks dull. I'll keep trying though. Nothing to lose!

I don't think my place would be very good for a dodgy day due to it having a fairly short driveway and a narrow carport. But I'm definitely keen to attend one

Ando wrote:Ahh... the MX-5 honeymoon. Is it ever really over??

Amen to that... on the way to my third year and I ain't looking back just yet

Very nice car there, Mark!