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BDR,
Tiring, from Houston to Galveston? I understand the need to constanty be alert for the blue, oops white now, cars with radar on 45, getting tired from waving at all the hornblowers, taking thirty minutes of filing up at the service station even with speed talking, tensed up all the way since you have to weave in and out to stay ahead of a C5, turning your head so much looking for admirers, and on and on and on.
I know you wouldn't have all that to do in a run of the mill MIATA with the top down, but that's what a COBRAs about.
Put a top up on the COBRA, they had heaters in them to begin with, and you could add air for the same price as one costs in a new Vette. The original seats a good and comfortable unlike a lot of the $150 kit seats.
Also in the same fashion if the MIATA had fgrp shell seats, racing springs and sway bars, side exhaust sytem, fast ratio steering, and other items like the typical COBRA, then it would be pretty close to the driving portion of the this tiresome trip.
Why would anyone drive a Cobra or MIATA to ALASKA, is the real question.
Just had to chime in, ha, see you at one of the local meets, even if you show up tired.
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