This next car might be familiar to you because we’ve written about it in the past. It is DT co-founder CFlo’s “Miss Miagi” track MX-5 that he picked up in 2016 as a replacement to El Cheapacabra after it was crushed in a traffic accident. The perky little Miata has been a great track car […]
CFlo’s State of the Fleet Address Here at the DT offices double-wide in the sky, it seems everyone has some sort of cool project car, wacky daily driver, or cheap performance machine. I think I might be the most deranged though, because at any given moment I need more than two full hands of fingers […]
Back in January I picked up a replacement to El Cheapacabra, the $600 musty Miata project car that was totaled when an E46 cut me off at an unprotected left. Using craigslist-fu and the insurance payout I was able to upgrade to this lower mile, non-smelly, smooth running ’93 while monetarily breaking even on the […]
Continuing our theme of videos on Sunday, check out the first “officially official” DT video! Last weekend, I (CFlo) and my wife had the opportunity to join in the Mazda Friends & Family trackday weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. I took some helmet cam video with my genuine SJCAM SJ4000 (accept no substitutes!) and […]
A few weeks back, my scruffy little 1990 NA Miata project trackday car, El Cheapacabra, met an untimely demise. I posted a quick sob story describing the incident, and got some great leads from readers – thank you guys for the input! However, I couldn’t help myself from setting up a craigslist alert with a […]
If you’ve been following our sporadic Project Car posts, you’ll perhaps remember (through a foggy haze of regret and clove smoke, no doubt) that the DT stable is full of various cheap fun vehicles, but the cheapest of all was El Cheapacabra, my $600 ugly red 1990 Mazda Miata. Well I have some sour news […]