{"id":671,"date":"2018-04-15T03:08:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T03:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intermarque.org\/?p=671"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:26:39","slug":"miscellaneous-mumblings-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/15\/miscellaneous-mumblings-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Mumblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Lindberg &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I guess for most of you it was the no-sportscar season. You were out there braving those plowed freeways in your all-wheel-drive crossover barges. Toasting your buns in a minivan&#8217;s heated seats. Testing your anti-lock brakes and traction control on the black ice. Hoping that you pay off your 6-year loan before your rocker panels rust off.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was doing the same thing. Only in my 2012 Miata. It&#8217;s got the heated seats, the anti-lock brakes, the traction control, and the rocker panels to worry about. Of course it&#8217;s rear-wheel drive and still wearing summer tires but that only meant I got to feel the anti-locks fighting for traction more often than in Linda&#8217;s Blizzak-equipped Mazda3.<\/p>\n<p>When our vintage cars were new, they most often saw wintertime usage also. One of my favorite Triumph pictures appeared in the March 1958 issue of <u>Sports Car Illustrated<\/u>. It shows a TR3 in the snow with a side-mounted ski rack. The author of the review praised the heater and said he only did one 360 &#8212; and that on a racetrack&#8217;s ice patch. He did, however, complain about the side curtains&#8217; sealing. Something that we current TR3 owners also complain about in the rain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-692\" src=\"http:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/andymazda640px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/andymazda640px.jpg 640w, https:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/andymazda640px-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/intermarque.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/andymazda640px-585x259.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>The Miata seals up much more securely than any TR3 ever dreamt of doing. As a matter of fact, the Miata with the top down is as warm as the TR3 with its up. So I\u2019ve driven it sans top to Elsie\u2019s on more than a few Saturday mornings in February and March. Neither the Miata nor I (nor the TR3) are going to last forever and driving them top-down when I can is good for my soul. Better than driving a hermetically sealed Escalade umpteen freeway miles so I can stand on the shore of Lake Superior and take a selfie of myself \u201croughing it.\u201d Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Lindberg &#8211; I guess for most of you it was the no-sportscar season. You were out there braving those plowed freeways in your&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intermarque-musings","category-mumble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intermarque.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}