July, 2000: Purchased Sharka, a 97 montego blue Miata with 51k miles on the clock.
August, 2000: Installed rollbar. Attended my first SoloII event. I was hooked.
2001: Autocrossed in B-stock class, came in 1st place for the year in my region.
2002: Miatas were bumped to C-stock. I raced another season in stock and came in 1st again.
2003-2004: The mod bug hit me. I installed a lot of parts (mostly suspension) and raced CSP for 2 seasons. Came in 2nd and 3rd for the respective years.
2005: I tried to race in SM2. I bought a supercharger. I installed a supercharger. I learned to hate vacuum leaks and supercharger belts. My car never ran well. I hated life.
2006: Ripped out supercharger, went back to N/A. Installed Link ECU. Life went back to being enjoyable.
2007: Installed 99 engine and gave up on modifying my car to fit a specific SCCA class. I just drove and played with my car for my own enjoyment. Life got even better.
2008: Lost Sharka-the-97 in a freeway hit. Could have lost my life. Instead of following sanity and moving on with some other car, I chose to rebuild Sharka, better/faster/stronger.
January, 2009: Purchased Sharka, a 95 montego blue Miata with 31k miles on the clock. Spent the next year rebuilding him.

I started this blog to detail my drive back from Ohio after purchasing the 95. I didn’t expect to keep updating it. Turns out I enjoy blogging about my silly car obsession. And sometimes toy photos.