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October '96 Southern California MR2 Meet
February '97 Southern California MR2 Meet
April '97 Southern California MR2 Meet
Coming up: First Annual Golden State Rally

[Image of license plate 'MOV OVR']

If you see this on the road, do as it says! :-)

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Location: Austin, Texas
Car: Black 1993 NA, affectionately known as "Vroom-Sr"
Tag: MOV OVR.
Mileage: 69.660 miles (day of rally, 4/19/97)
Built: 10/92


Vroom-Sr's stuff!

Stuff I got
T-Tops
Power everything
Passport radar and laser detectors
Panasonic removable face CD player
A brand new Toyota MR2 bra
New rear AVSIs. Wheeee!
Stuff I want
MR2 Communicators!!!!
Valentine-1 radar detector
Center console, also known as "useless compartment"
Orbital Buffer (yes, still!)
Good mechanic
Cheap car insurance (yeah, right!)

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Adventures

Palm Springs, July 1995
My last good fun-in-the-sun MR2 adventure involved a road trip to Palm Springs over the 4th of July weekend, 1995. Here is a shot of me in my MR2 with a tyranosaurus we ran across on the way there. Can you see me?

Here is a shot of me and two of my copilots (see them on either side of me?) in the MR2 once we arrived in Palm Springs. It was unusually busy in Palm Springs that weekend, but we had a great time anyway. I guess everyone has discovered our quiet summertime hideout. :-( The temperature was perfect - around 105. Ahhhhhhh...

Palm Springs, August 1996 (hmmm, I detect a pattern here...)
Another awesome road trip to Palm Springs, but no pictures this time, as we made the trek at night. The upside to driving there at night is that it's only in the 80's as you fly through the desert, instead of 110's. The downside is that you can't fly quite as fast because you can't see the cops! :-)

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Maintenance-type stuff (or, the *only* things I can complain about)

* Cigarette lighter never did work. I didn't care until I got a cell phone and wanted to use a cig-adapter when my battery was low, but by then the car was out of the warranty period (grrrr).

* A/C light started flashing the other day. I took the car in to a local "all-purpose" shop to get the A/C system checked -- all is fine (but they STILL took my twenty bucks!). The guys at this shop told me to go to the dealer because it was an electrical problem. Took it into a dealer who kept the car all day and couldn't figure out what was wrong. This was after the arrogant manager first went on and on about why the "all-purpose" shop guys couldn't possibly know what was wrong with a Toyota -- he went on in detail about how the shock sensor works in conjunction with the compressor. Later that day he tells me that he learned that the '93 MR2s *have no shock sensor* so that couldn't have been the problem! (Gee buddy, I see you had to read your OWN Toyota manual). The dealer wanted to keep it another day, and I said FORGET IT and left. Air seems to work fine, so I'm just leaving it for now... if anyone has had this successfully fixed, please let me know!

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