Where have you been in your MX-5 today?


Me also as well!

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It’s not all to my liking, but I bet it is quite something to see.
That grey engine bay looks very organised.

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While we were waiting to get out at Ricoh

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Had my 2005 NB for a month now. Absolutely loving it - 70 years old, always wanted a roadster, mortgage and growing family always precluded it.

Went for a 20 mile blast (well, sedate blast) around some country lanes today. Took me back 50 years ago to my beloved Mk1 Cortina GT. Came back with a HUGE smile on my face :grin::grin::grin::grin:

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Hi TerryM1,
Good for you - I am so glad you are enjoying your NB.
I am also an NB owner, and have just been out for a little cruise around the New Forest in my lovely little 2001 version, to make the most of the sun whilst it is still shining - bliss!

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Thanks! I was between Bransgore and Ringwood. :blush:

Pretty close to me when I was out then - I came back along the main road past the old East Close Hotel, then back home via Beckley and Bashley!

Drove to a pint on my day off, but I was having too much fun to stop before Grasmere, and eventually found one at the Badger Bar,

where another 5 popped up.

I took ā€œKatieā€ to my first car show since September 2019! A lovely afternoon and a record number of cars turned up to the Lympsham Manor Fete. Lots of ā€œmodern classicsā€, which I’m guessing may be how car shows will develop as the years go by?


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To my local petrol station, for a fiver’s worth of fuel (blimey, you don’t get many millilitres for that nowadays) so I can drive to the dealer and bid farewell to my ND tomorrow… :disappointed:

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What number were you? The Prisoner - Wikipedia

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Why are you getting rid of it?

Change of circumstances really, I bought it in Jan’20 following redundancy but with the plan to get back in to work in the travel industry and use it as a daily driver - Covid-19 put paid to that industry for the time being and I’m not doing the mileage to justify (to my head), keeping it. Especially as it’s only done 2900 miles and there seems to be high demand for low mileage NDs currently…

Yes, fair enough.
And you’ll never get a price for it like you will at the moment. YOu could wait a year, find the semi conductors are rolling and the economy is going again, and you might lose Ā£5K compared to what they’ll give you tomorrow.
Did a dealer see your ad on here and offer, or did you advertise elsewhere. Excuse me if you’ve explained this is some other thread.

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I can only begin to understand your circumstances in getting rid of your ND… Mine is only a toy and a supermarket twice weekly car, but I couldn’t get rid, despite it being a sellers market… Hope you don’t regret your decision, but you could always buy back in again at a later date…! :slight_smile: And in a more favourable market…!
Rob

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I’m inclined to agree - it would be a case of now or never, really, This thread will explain: Ebay classified or Autotrader?

You’re right about high demand , hence high prices, and if you have to get out of a car for whatever reason I doubt they’ll ever be a better time to do it.
Although not selling I’ve recently checked the buy in value on mine, and after thinking at the time I’d possibly overpaid a bit for it, the webac and motorway valuations are within a few hundred £’s of what I paid retail 4 months and 3k miles ago. Daft.

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Or where haven’t we been…! Long way round to fuel up for the week and then; you gotta love a sunny summer in Kent eh….

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Webuy are offering a grand less than I paid for mine as a 3 miles on it pre reg, a month less than 3 years ago!

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