We're Still Here!

 Yes, I know, it's been an awfully long while since an update on this blog, and quite a lot has happened in the world since the last report in 2019! But, Project Merlot is still on the road, albeit with a new custodian for the last few years. 

The good old Merlot has had a bit of welding, it's had a suspension change, plus a few other tweaks in the recent years, and latest work was a replacement steering rack, so no more power steering fluid puddles, hopefully.  But as well as the inevitable mechanical works I can also report the Merlot has now been thrashed on the Autobarn, and taken on the Nurburgring Nordschleife, see evidence below.

Several of us have a love-hate relationship with the car, (some more hate than love I think) but it's a survivor, and while we fear more rust issues are approaching, who knows what happens next. 

The dreaded MOT...

It's always a bit of a worry taking any car for an MOT and more so when the motor has been, how shall we put it, modified a bit, (and not all on purpose either!).

It does help though if you pick a garage out in the wilds of the Suffolk countryside and have a 40 minute drive on a lovely sunny morning on some twisty roads there and back. It has to be said that the drive back with the MOT pass safely stashed in the glovebox (yes, we do still have one) is much better than the rather nervous run over.

Cleverley Repaired Cars are our MOT testing station of choice these days as apart from the drive you are pretty much guaranteed a cuppa and a nice chat about MX-5s.

So that was that sorted for another 12 months, although it looks like we will have to be getting the welder out before the next test!

National Rally time again.

Its National Rally time again! Here we are sitting alongside our MX-5 Owners Club motorsport buddies.