Tylor's Miata - Humble beginings

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Just picked up my miata lastnight.

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It's a 1990 with 105k miles
custom blue with a faded black interior
5spd with power windows

Bought the car needing some TLC.

Mods on the car already:
Interior and trunk light kits
"No name" wheels
Kuhmo tires

Stuff done so far:
Trunk light converted to LED
jiggled wire in passenger door and got the speaker working again
replaced crapped out door panels with those from a 96 black/tan
replaced torn up shift boot and heat shield
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Replaced rusted and chipping rain rails on the door
Replaced sunfaded hazard/headlight switch with one from a 96

Parts in the garage awaiting my lazy butt to get up and take care of bidness:
Harddog Ace rollbar with diagonal and harness bar
Timing belt/waterpump/thermostat
shifter rebuild kit

Plans:

New soft top
new clutch, clutch slave, and clutch master cylinder
refresh the interior (new seats-carpets-misc interior bits)
Replace hole ridden trunk (removed luggage rack and didn't plug it)-CHECK- replaced with new trunk
Replace busted finisher plate-CHECK- replaced with new finisher panel

New plan-get parts above listed painted

Will be updating this thread with new pics along the way

That's about it for the time being.

And here she is as of Sept. 24th
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My bro in law gave his his Grant steering wheel, so this will be going in soon
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rollbar waiting to go in

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New door skins and steering wheel also installed- thinking on staining/painting the tan to a dark silver, as well as the lower hafl of the dash and center console
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i get the spoiler holes... whats with the rest? and did they really repaint it without fixing the dent or those holes? or was the previous? I kinda wanna punch the prev owner.
 
Well, at one time, the car WAS taken care of. It's got quite a few "small nice" mods that the older gentleman that was the previous previous owner.

I bought it off a kid who bought it off an old guy.

It was repainted then someone hit the car, so the dent is new. The kid also removed the luggage rack (not filling in the holes) post painting

Interior is a 1990 convertable, so, not TOO worried about it.

It's def gonna be a fun project, no question about it.
 
I dig that smurf blue...it actually looks pretty good in the pics...I have a 95 miata in really good shape, but I want to get one that's a little ratty, and build a super mega canyon carver with it
 
check out my old finisher plate
it just crumbled in my hands
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and new trunk and finisher plate (montigo blue) but NO HOLES or busted finisher plate!!!

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and here's my current gauge hood. . . . . the new one i got is for a 94+ and neither i or the seller realized they were differet. . .

I love how the previous owner "fixed" it

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and a pic from the mini-meet and greet with 2 other local miata owners
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yeah, they were laughing when they saw what color i was rolling up in
 
looking good man. I love the color. Can't wait to see it all "fixed up" and in person one day.
 
Good stuff :D

let the new segment of mod ADD reign!

Soon as the P5 sells, mods will roll! lol

top is already accounted for finacially, roll bar and seats will be once the P5 sells plus whatever extra i can manage to scrounge off the car

but for now, she'll sit like this for a bit
 
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