In 2008.. I fell in love with my first miata… a 2002 SE with saddle brown seats and full racing beat intake header and exhaust… it was an amazing first car… which I happened to total coming down a decreasing radius turn one early morning after a nice drive in the mountains….
I had to get back into the scene… so I scoured craigslist for weeks…. I really could not appreciate the NA shape initially and having test drove a few… could not get over the lack of power….
Finally one day I saw a craigslist ad, it was a black miata with full racing beat body kit…. I liked what I saw… but was kind of scared of a car with no AC, no PS and the interior was a little rough….
I decided to call and met up with the guy in the Costco parking lot… asking price 2k…..
The car drove so much better than all the other NA’s that I had driven… suspension was done, there was no rear finishing panel and a crack in the front bumper.. but other wise I liked it….
He asked me how much I wanted to pay.. .and would easily have takend 1500…. But I chickened out and told him I would call him in the the next couple of days..
That night.. I decided I would take it… when I called him…. He told me he had just sold it….
I was heart broken….
I manically searched craigslist for 2 weeks straight… you know how it is when you lose some thing you really wanted…..
IT so happens the same car pops up 2 weeks later… I go to meet the guy who says his girl friend won’t let him keep it… so I pick it up for 2k… and finally got my racing beat miata……!!!!!
According the the previous owner, the engine had been rebuilt with forged internals, and the previous owner to him worked at racing beat, which is why it had racing beat braces, intake, header and exhaust along with springs and koni shocks…
3 years laters… I had purchased a hard top and the paint on the car was dying… picked up one of those amazing G-wings too….
As you can see in the pics below……
I played with different wheels…. Started with some 16 inch black subzeros…..
Then tried some rota RB 13 inchers….in black….
Finally pulled the trigger on some 14X7 +28 RPF-1 on star specs… and I knew this was the set I had been waiting for… classic yet functional….
Threw some tein flex coilovers for good measure and the car was so much more plush then my racing beat springs and koni yellows…
Picked up a removable trunk rack… which just made the black car too busy with the racing beat spoiler….and the G-wing…
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Do you have plans to put driving lights in the front bumper, or are you gonna use the openings for a cold air intake?
