My 1989 MX-5

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Ah, that car. I know the guy who did the weldingin the Motorpunk article. How has that work held up in 5 years?

579th UK car, so likely in that batch on the first boat from Japan in early 1990.

There is a thread on early cars:

Is our mk1 MX5 one of the oldest around?

I have put together a spreadsheet of probable early UK MX5s. Something very odd happened with the registrations at the time.   G174 RKM remains the oldest UK MX5 (though it was probably a Eunos Roadster fitted with UK-spec parts), registered 17 January 1990, with the DVLA mistakingly putting the engine size down as 1498cc.   Liz Turner’s book includes a photograph of a white 1990 UK car, with a stick on plate, with the photograph being indicated as taken on Greece as part of a press launch. …

I’ll be updating that thread

JMZNA18B200100376` was built 18th December 1989. Yours was bult likely on the same day or the next.