Remembering Japanese cars from the past
No I’m not dead…yet. I’m just in holiday mode so a bit less postings will be made in the upcoming weeks.
Not to refrain you from your daily dose of JDMness I’ll give you the photo of this Miata I spotted earlier this week:
Down on the Street: Black 1994 Mazda Miata
As you can see it rained heavily meaning a topless Miata would have been no fun at all!
You don’t see too many black Miatas, so I guess this one really is an exception to the rule. :)
It has been a while since I posted up some Miatas. I definitely wanted to take loads pictures of Miatas in California, but since they were so ubiquitous I stopped after a while and in the end only have to post up…
First of all this Silver MX5 NC, caught at the tramstop in San Franciso:
Silver Mazda MX5 NC in San Francisco
The reason it was shot this irregular was that my colleague (who I was travelling with) was complaining he would be in the picture. So enjoy “Jake” and his silvery shoes. ;)
Second of all this green Miata, parked in the parkinglot of the conference center:
Green Mazda Miata NA in Santa Clara
A Celia RA42 was parked right next to it. I’ll post that in one of the next down on the street postings.
Only a short posting today, so only this single 1991 Mazda MX5 NA today:
Blue 1991 Mazda MX5 NA
For a long time I thought it was the same as another blue one in town, but only yesterday I found out they are actually different from each other. I’ll take a picture of the other one for next Miata Hunting!
Now this Miata is a bit of everything: it is yellow, white and blue, it is imported brand new and it has quite a lot of rust!
Down on the Street: Yellow Mazda Miata
Originally imported in 1990 as a Miata and registered as white. Apparently the owner (or previous owner) resprayed it yellow but did not bother to change the registration. Then the sunroof got replaced by a blue hardtop.
From the backside you can see that it is gathering quite some rust:
Down on the Street: Yellow Mazda Miata
Perhaps a small accident at the rear and that’s why there is also a panel missing?
Would part thirteen bring bad luck? Let’s hope not!
This time I have this beautiful (imported) dark blue 2000 Mazda MX5 NB for you:
Blue 2000 Mazda MX5 NB
Not only was it lowered nicely, it also had a nice lip and some dished rims. Now that’s a Miata I’d like to drive! ;)
A few weeks later I photographed her sister, a green 2005 Mazda MX5 NB that was imported three days earlier (in January 2010) than the blue NB above.
Green 2005 Mazda MX5 NB
I presume it was the same company, otherwise it was one hell of a coincidence.
And last but not least, this nice red 1990 Mazda MX5 NA:
Red 1990 Mazda MX5 NA
It is owned by an employee in the building I work in. It could very well be the same owner as the one that left an note under the windshield of my AE86 four years ago. But I’ll probably never know…
Additional note: I got a new phone, so I had to clean out the SD card in it. I discovered I totally forgot about all the pictures I shot with that phone, so it turned out to be some sort of hidden treasure. Prepare for some more bad quality phone-cam pictures in the upcoming weeks! ;)
I just realized I almost skipped the Miata Hunt this month! :o
So here they are: a silver NB and two red NAs!
2009 Silver Mazda MX5 NB
Yes, you read that right: 2009! When I looked it up I also had a big WTF…
I always look up info on the Dutch licenseplate registration, but that database contains weird things from time to time. My best guess is that the MX5 was registered in late 2006 (entries next to its registration show late 2006 as well) and when the car switched owners the record was wrongly updated in the database. However the NB was only produced till 2005, so there must have been some slow selling of the old stock due to the introduction of the new model. Still very confusing. :P
Another confusion was this 1991 red MX5 NA: it was parked about 10 meters from the spot normally another red Miata NA is parked!
1991 Red Mazda MX5 NA
The only reason I noticed was that this red NA is a MX5 and the other one is a Miata. Curious how I could make that difference so quickly? The Dutch law bides all domestic cars should have long plates, while import cars can have smaller plates if long plates do not fit (see also below). The MX5 clearly has the longer plates and that was quite unexpected when you pass the same car every day. ;)
Last but not least: another confusing Miata!
1992 Red Mazda MX5 NA
This one is another red Miata. You can see this one has smaller US-like plates.
First of all: this is about 500 meters from the one parked above, so I expected it to be the one that is normally parked at the spot in the picture above. It was not the same car, so that was another confusion…
Then when I was just about to leave I noticed the car was being used by some dad to pickup his son from cram-school. How cool is that?
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