25th Anniversary Miata Book

[— Phatmiata —]

So I got this message on Flickr Mail…….

Hi Randy,

My name is Mark Jordan (former Miata NA designer) and I am assisting in the production of an upcoming 25th anniversary of the Mazda Miata. It will be published by Motorbooks and is expected to be introduced in Oct. 14.

There are some wonderful photos you have complied. I would like to ask your permission to use some of the NA Miata ads with the book.You would of course get photo credits.

Thank you.

[WASABI]

Nice! Congratulations.

[—atank—]

Top honors Phat!!!!!!!!

[— fwdtamiya —]

Cool deal

[theothersawyer]

Very cool! Congrats Phat!

[Ihatecars]

Your Flikr does contain some pretty sweet photos. Congrats!
I'm excited for the book.

[— Phatmiata —]

I think mine just has so many photos that it comes up in most google image searches, plus I always tag the photos for the search bots

[WASABI]

Well, it worked for you! That being said... where is a link to your photos?

[— Phatmiata —]

I sent him a link to the forum, and after viewing some of the threads he now wants to use some photos from the Magazine Thread,
http://mazdaroadster.net/showthread....89-1997-Miata)

even though they are from my collection of old ads they are really not mine per say. Ah well, I will use this as another networking connection.........

[— Phatmiata —]

here is a link to my photostream

https://www.flickr.com/photos/phatmiata/

[— Agent☣Orange —]

He misspelled compiled. It's a scam!

[medition]

Mark Jordan's name has been around for a long time, working with him will definitely put you in some old Miata world company, corporate ties, that kind of thing. All good Randy

[MazRoadAdmin]

The ads may not be "yours", but vintage stuff like that can be VERY hard to find, as you know. If you're the one guy who bothered to keep good clean copies of something that nobody else has... you at least deserve credit (if not a little cash) for providing them. You're talking about a book that someone is having printed to make money. There's no reason you shouldn't ask for a small slice for your contribution. But, at the very least "from the collection of Randy George of MazdaRoadster.net" would be a nice photo credit.

[— Phatmiata —]

I emailed him about how the photo credit would read.........

Hi Randy,

How would you like your photo credit to read?

and of course my reply (thanks Loren)

from the collection of Randy George of www.MazdaRoadster.net

[— Phatmiata —]

Update............. so they are getting down to the deadline on this and I just rescanned all the Mazda Miata ads for Mark Jones on this, now he says he wants to do a "History of the Miata" style book with Bob Hall & Tom Matano, and he wants my help getting all the images as I have most here in a 6" binder, LOL

This is VERY exciting for me as I have loved collecting all of the Miata ads over the years, just really love these cars, so this is just a real treat to even be mentioned in a book such as this.

Okay that is all my Miata geek love for today hahhaha have a great day !!! Im going to scan in some of the Japanese print ads now and showcase those for everyone!!