The MX-5...and you., Dig into your inner auto enthusiast. Options

[SwissFerdi]

So, as we are all Celica owners, we all have the same baseline perspective to build on. What do you as 6GCers think about the Mazda MX-5? Would you consider trading your Celica for an MX-5 (specifically the NB - 2nd gen), and if you did, what would you consider to be the pros and cons of trading to an MX-5?

Thanks for the input.

[SwissFerdi]

^ I like the black paint and BBS wheels, I've seen one here for sale with a red leather seats as well, it looked really nice. Too bad it was ripped up. I like the first one though, seems like a solid car, and the owner seems to know a bit about it.

As for me, I can't trade the Celica. So what I'm going to do is build up a budget of about 750 and buy an MX-5 that needs a bit of mechanical TLC and otherwise has a beat-up exterior. My plan is to service the engine to make it run perfectly and also make sure that the tranny and brakes are in perfect order and that I have some good, grippy tires. Then I'll invest into suspension, probably a strut-and-spring setup since I'm not going to dump massive money into this car. I'll be driving it for auto-cross only, so exterior damage isn't an issue and I'm toying around with the idea of just ripping the entire interior out, so I don't need to worry about the condition of that either. Eventually, I'd like to get around to replacing any severely damaged panels and giving 'er a budget rattle-can paint. All in all...it'll be a project car which will allow me to learn my way with mechanics and also let me experiment with body work.

So basically, I'm still looking to get an MX-5, it just won't be a DD and it won't look glamorous, in the beginning. I'll call it my track slut.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Sep 6, 2010 - 11:15 AM