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Why start over with another FE3Miata? Because the first was a victim of mother nature’s fury.<\/h5>\nWhy start over with another FE3Miata? Because the first was a victim of mother nature’s fury.<\/h5>\n
\nOn April 13, 2009 a large Sweet Gum tree fell on my garage crushing the first FE3 Miata. After it was uncovered, I cut the windshield off, started it up and drove it under our deck where it sat until the new garage was built.<\/p>\n
Look under the tree trunk on the roof and you’ll see the tail lights and tag.<\/em> Thickest part of the tree rests on the rear package shelf and trunk area.<\/em> Why start over with another FE3Miata? Because the first was a victim of mother nature’s fury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20,26,22,23,17,15,25,16,18,21,19,24],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-first-fe3-miata","tag-crushed","tag-engine-swap","tag-fe-dohc","tag-fe3","tag-mazda","tag-miata","tag-modified","tag-mx-5","tag-mx5","tag-tree","tag-turbo","tag-turbocharged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fe3miata.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI did remove some of the parts susceptible to exposure. I also started the engine and ran it through rpm on a regular basis to keep it conditioned. Some of the red LE interior was salvageable, but the drivers door panel and dash were a loss. I may bring the interior over to a new car, but at a later date since the current focus is on the driveline. Though the car still started and drove it was for all usable purposes totaled.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n\n\u00a0The tree landed on the A pillar and across to the middle of the trunk.<\/em>
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