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Featured Miata Hi Tom, We are members of SAMOA
While surfing the web for a Miata we bumped into the Sacramento Area Miata Owners Association (SAMOA) website. I told my wife, Parvin, that seeing their events calendar, "these SAMOANS seem to be having a load of fun and have something or the other going every week-end"! We joined SAMOA without further ado even though we did not possess a Miata! We re-doubled efforts to look for a good white Miata. We saw an ad for a low-mileage white 1994 Package "C" Miata in The Bee. We soon discovered on Miata.Net that the 1994 not only had a bigger engine (1.8) but a bigger fuel tank and front disk brakes. Also, I was in daily email contact with Aaron Smith, who was advising us on the Miata purchase. One sentence which Aaron said was "in 1994 Mazda finally got everything right on the Miata". That did it! We had to have this yet unseen car! The owners turned out to be a nice couple who ran a business in downtown Chico. They even offered to bring down the car to Woodland for us to look at (Mmmmm - this meant that they were desperate to sell!). So on 9 February we met at 8 pm in the K-Mart parking lot in Woodland, and against my own axiom of "never inspect a car you are going to buy in the dark" we trusted the Chico couple, and bought the car on the spot. Documents and cash soon changed hands at the nearby McDonalds. The sellers departed for Chico in their truck. Parvin took the wheel of the Honda Prelude and drove back to Davis on Hwy 113, with me following at a safe distance behind in our new toy. After covering a mile or so I began to wonder why she was doing only 45 MPH??? When we reached home I queried her and she replied "I wanted to make sure you could keep up"!!!! I very patiently explained to her that the Miata was the faster car! We christened the Miata "HiHoney" because Parvin and I greet each other that way sometimes and the car does have a honey-like color, what with a slightly creamy white exterior (not found in other years) and a tan leather interior (which smells good). By this time we were quite taken with the car and began to scrub and clean the Miata. We ordered a car cover and door sills from Moss Motors, and promptly registered to take part in the very next SAMOA event; the go-kart outing in Stockton. Adi & Parvin
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