There was no internet then, so I must have used the kitchen phone in my parents’ house to find out that the Mazda dealership on 8 Mile Road had the first Miata in town. It was 1989, and high-school me convinced my father to visit the dealership just to look at the Mariner blue car sitting in the service bay, not yet ready to be displayed in the showroom.
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