Page 2: Interior accents (wood)
Page 3: Gauge faces (homemade), K.G. Works instrument cluster, new Knobmeister shift knob
Page 4: Road trip!

March 2004: This is my new (to me) 1995 Miata, Laguna Blue, bone stock except for a K&N air filter. Current tires are Bridgestone Blizzak snows, but that will change soon to used Dunlop D60 A2's. She's got the Popular Equipment package: power windows, cruise control, 14" alloy wheels, but no ABS, hardtop or leather (except the steering wheel).

Looks zippy, even sitting in the driveway. From this distance, you can't see the two tiny dents on the left front fender, and the touched-up scratch below the mirror.

? I've toyed with nicknaming it the "Blue Beast" in honor of the license plate, but it's kind of a boring nickname. So for now it's "Triple-N" (No NickName).

Here's the engine compartment. As far as I can tell, the metal parts go round and round, and the rubber tubes provide passageways for the gerbils to travel from wheel to wheel. Or something like that.

Sound system uses newfangled "cassettes," which are better than CDs because the record/play mechanism is protected from fingerprints. They're rewritable, too! The matching shift knob and brake handle are ensconced in the finest Corinthian extruded polyvinyl.

The view in the mirror through the back window is the clearest I've seen in any Miata I've driven, though it may not show up that well in this photo.