1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I didn’t notice it, but I also wasn’t really paying attention. I drove it all the way to Missouri and back with the busted bracket, and I just figured it was a bad alternator and power steering pump. It didn’t overheat when I limped it to the mechanic though, and I hadn’t noticed any major coolant loss.

 

Or this one..

 

Apparently they have some of the best handling of any non-performance car ever

 

there's a lifted Miata floating around Pueblo. knew the kid who owned it for a bit when I lived down there

I couldn't believe how much abuse that thing took on 31s lol

 

Hahaha i think I saw it the other day. IIRC it looked like an older gentleman driving it now. Good memory isnt particularly my best attribute.

 

(warning: completely anecdotal)

my sister had a Honda Fit and that thing probably saw 3 oil changes in the several years she owned it let alone any other regular maintenance and it was still going strong when she traded it in. No idea how except it was about as basic a car as you could have, except it had this weird feature where every time you used the turn signal it would give you a little camera view of your blind spots in the dash display. Like a car that small really needs a feature like that lol

 

My buddy had one of these generation fits with the auto, gutless as could be but it served him well for college. Then he promptly got rid of it, heard it got excellent mileage though. Has the usual Honda oil burning issue, but whatever just top em up every so often.

 

haha my sister's civic has that too. it's nice at night for sanity checking no-one driving without headlights snuck up. seems to be a pretty common occurrence these days

 

Having owned two Miata's, yeah they can take a beating

Here's the old girl, this was my supercharged NA that I used to take to Laguna Seca along with my Bullitt I used to run there was well







My co worker had just bought an NB when I had my NA (at the dealer I used to work at)





Worst part? I sold the Bullitt to our detailer (he freaking loved that car) only to wreck it some months later. It had under 100k miles and I had all the documentation for it as well as an original replacement decal for the Bullitt serial#

 

God dammit now I want a Miata again

 

I could always tag along in my wife’s boyfriends trail rig

 

A friend sent me this yesterday, I'm almost tempted just to get to work in the off season.

 

@Ozark_RegCab

I just noticed in one of your screenshots, you were looking at buying from a used car dealer

I've noticed the 80 and 100 series you had checked out some weeks back for fun were also from used car dealers

As someone that came from the industry, I would advise against buying from such places - you'll end up in the same situation if not worse than where you are now

There are few exceptions to this rule, and normally it's when the vehicle is on consignment or if it was an ultra low mileage vehicle they picked up locally (which sometimes does happen)

 

After all that you pay this? Back to ignore.

 

That does seem about 5k high for that thing

 

this is the way

 

in CO I would consider that price fair, 5k would be a deal

car market here seems to be nuts tho

 

Just weighing all my options.

Car lots ask a premium since they offer financing. They'd probably take 7k if you offered cash.

 

Me reading Nick's replies be like

 

I can't picture going into debt for a sub 10k econoshitbox from last decade