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| January 23, 2005 Newsletter |
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January Club Meeting
Our first club meeting of 2005 is this week - Wednesday, January 26th at 7:00pm. at Marnie Boulter's home. Below are Marnie’s directions and address. We are the second building behind Tim Hortons at the corner of Hollywood and Hwy 33. 206-200 Hollywood Rd. N. Can park in front. For more info: Call me at (250) 861-3669 or email her at marniegb@shaw.ca. See you then, Marnie |
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Planned Runs and Events For 2005
Mark these dates on your calendars for this year:
Annual Tickleberry run:
This is our 5th Annual Ticklberry Run. We will me meet at the Hotel Eldorado on Lakeshore Road at the end of Cook Road. We will leave the Hotel Eldorado at 10:30am, so I suggest you show up at 10:20am at the latest. We will stop in Penticton at a location to be determined. Tim horton's is getting too busy to stop at easily.
2005 OKanagan Valley Sun Run:
Registration starts soon for this event. Don't miss out as it fills up fast! Check our website for updates on this and all other events. This is a MIATA ONLY event. Please address your questions on our club forum.
Schedule Of Events
Friday
• Drive Thru Registration
• Autocross / Miata Mingle
• Wine & Cheese
Saturday
• Hotel Breakfast
• Saturday Run
• Old Fashion Box Lunch
• Saturday Run
• Mazda Canada Banquet
Sunday
• Hotel Breakfast
• Sunday Run
• Lunch
Host Hotel:
Best Western Hotel
2402 Hwy. 97 North
Kelowna, BC, V1W 4J1
1-888-860-1212
www.bestwesterninnkelowna.com
Rates start at $117.00 and go up depending on needs. Blocked rooms will be released to the public on May 10. After registration you will be given a specific code to receive the reduced room rates.
Everything is subject to change at the last minute.
Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Festival:
Saturday August 13 will be the first annual Salmon Arm Festival run. This is a great outdoor event featuring a wide variety of talented artists from all over the world. Their 2005 schedule will be out soon. Check their website at: http://www.rootsandblues.ca/ for festival updates.
The run will start in Vernon for breakfast (times to be decided) and followed by a great backroads drive via Salmon Valley Road north to Salmon Arm. The event opens at 10:30 am and runs all day and evening until 11:00 pm. Tickets can be purchased at the gate or earlier for a slight discount.
Your run organizer will be Jim Dennison.
If any members have a favourite spot or event that they think would make a good outing for the club, let us know and we can include it in this years calendar.
One idea that I thought may be interesting is a weekend outing to the Cariboo area. Perhaps a loop north through Little Fort and then West to 100 mile, returning home Via Lillooet, Lytton, Ashcroft, Logan Lake and Merritt. Lot of good secondary highways just made for the Miata! We could decide at a later date were to overnight. |
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MX-5 Netherlands
I was talking to the coordinator of the MX5 Club's in the Netherlands the other day. They have extended an open invitation to me, and I'm sure any other club members, when I next visit my Daughter there, to join them on one their outings. As a passenger of course, to far to drive my old '91. The following item was on their club web site "MX5 Netherlands". It is a reply to the big question of how to properly acknowledge Miata's in the oncoming lane. The authour who I don't believe is Dutch, but sounds like someone I would like to meet:
Phredd ~ Klassic Red '93A, "Mr.Redd" ~ Nawfuk, Virginny
Under Condition Redd!
has given his kind permission to reprint it here. Enjoy!
Miata Acknowledgement Protocol
Well, you see, it's not a simple matter. MAP (Miata Acknowledgement Protocol) involves a rather complicated formula of chromatic/chronological seniority. Memorizing and astutely applying its tenets at the time of any MME (Miata Meeting Event) will ensure you perform no breech of etiquette and will positively enhance your Miata driving experience.
IIRC, the first Miatas came to these shores in one's choice of Red, white, or blue. It was a ploy by Mazda PRD (Public Relations Division) to endear the little marque to the US market through a thinly veiled theme of patriotism. It didn't quite make it up the flagpole, though. Mazda, playing it close to the vest, exported around nine copies of each color in their initial line and, when more than 27 customers showed up to buy them, the US dealer network exhibited its patriotism by adding an MVA (Market Value Adjustment) of between 5 and 10 Large to each and every example it had on the lot.
Unbelievably, they nonetheless sold out.
Well, this only served to encourage the MMM (Mazda Marketing Minions) and they eventually calculated that they could sell lots more cars here if they only had more colors. If they added black, for example, export totals would automatically rise to 36. A silver model and it would soar to 45!
They almost immediately saw the potential of this strategy and started - willy nilly - introducing other "alternative" colors such as taxicab yellow, metallic-tasting merlot, something called "BRG" [to this day, no one knows what that acronym actually stands for], and no fewer than one hundred and forty-seven variations on the original blue. As you can guess, export quantities soared.
So, that gives you a bit of history on chromatic development.
Now, for the chronological.
As we've observed, Red, white, and blue were the original offerings and, as such, carry the seniority.
Red, of course, is defined and revered as "Classic." We should also note here that Red is the One, True Roadster Color. Everyone knows that, of course.
White -- well white is actually the absence of color and was only used to separate the Red and blue for PPP (Patriotic Ploy Purposes). Heck, even the US Flag only includes it to keep all the Red from running together and looking like some kind of crummy Commie flag.
The original blue [some call it Smurf blue, I believe] is cute and harmless enough but, well, suffice it to say that it's just not the same calibre as Red. So, these three colors [despite what one may think of the lesser two] are naturally superior to any of the subsequent offerings. And, who knows where the MMM may tangent off to next!
Now, we come to the working MAP. You didn't mention what color your car is but, I guess, it's safe to assume it's not Classic Red. You surely would have mentioned that. But, MAP works sorta like this:
If you are driving any of those Johnny-come-lately rabble colors and you have an MME with any one of the original RWB cars, you are obligated, by all that is holy, to signal first. And, not just first, but enthusiastically and with a deferential smile.
If you are driving any of those rabble colors and you have an MME with any one of the other rabble colors . . . well, it doesn't matter. You all can work that for yourselves.
If you are driving either an original white or an original blue and you have an MME with a Classic Red, you are also required to signal first and, although you must do so deferentially, you can, at least, exhibit an expression of knowing brotherhood.
But, if you are driving *any one* of the rabble colors and you have an MME with a bleached-out Classic Red '90 with bald tires and even a trace of the Mazda decalcomania remaining on its left, front bumper cover and [this is important] its TOP IS DOWN, you are required to immediately pull over to the curb, stop your car, and stand on its hood with your cover doffed and your right hand over your heart as it drives by. If you happen to be in the military, you may remain covered and effect a snappy salute.
'Hope this helps.
Keep the Revs up!
Phredd ~ Klassic Red 'XCIII-A ~ "MisteRedd"
God's Miata is Red!
Editors Note: The above may seem bias towards RED Miatas, but as you all know, even though only true sports cars are red, I am totally unbiased when it comes to car colour. |
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