I finally got an engine cover

[stringbreaker]

It was attached to a Mazda CX-30.


Got the CX-30 the same day the Ranger hit 50k.

Some members in their “I’ve moved on” threads say that there is no emotion for them. For me, after driving nothing but 2 Rangers for 27 years it is an interesting thing. There have been no tears but I’m not going to lie, seeing the Ranger relegated to the driveway that first night was f’d up.

I wanted to try something different and I am pretty sure the 30 will be a great experience.

This is an awesome site and I will continue to check in here. “I’m like a bad penny, I always turn up.”

What do they call that color?I've seen it on a lot of their cars. I like it

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[Big Blue]

What do they call that color?I've seen it on a lot of their cars. I like it

I believe that is "Soul Red Crystal" my wifes '19 Mazda 3 hatch is that color. It was a $600 uncharge for it. It does really pop fresh polished in the sun.

Oh, that engine cover makes a really nice mouse house. Ask me how I know. ?

 

[Msfitoy]

1976! The year of the Bicentennial...mods need to change the thread title to "I'm so old, I finally got an engine cover"...?

 

[2021Ranger]

Benny I want to add a brake controller to my 2021 ranger..there seems to be confusion on that. Can you provide me with the correct one?

 

[Ranger_Rocks]

Benny I want to add a brake controller to my 2021 ranger..there seems to be confusion on that. Can you provide me with the correct one?

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[shovelhd]

Coming off of the Mazdaspeed 6, I was so pissed they didnt make it AWD as well. It was still a cool car though.

The VW Golf R weighs 400 pounds more than an equivalent GTI, due to the AWD gear. Be careful what you wish for.

 

[GhostStrykre]

it's an experience reading through this thread.

my last vehicle was a Subaru WRX. the owner's community on that thing was just early 20s bro's who vaped and tried to barter for parts with juul cartridges
i went to a cars and coffee event and saw one of these morons using spray paint to touch up the front of his POS car IN THE WIND while parked next to an insanely nice exotic car.

contrast that to reading this thread and all these tales of yore LOL. the homestead afb stuff is pretty awesome to read. i enjoyed that.

as for the OP, enjoy that mazda! my parents owned a CX-9 that they later sold to my brother when he needed a car to commute to work with. that sumbitch is closin in on like 270,000 miles and the ONLY thing going on with it is a faint exhaust rattle. GREAT vehicle.

i've never particularly loved mazda's interior design, but good lord they make good cars.

 

[TJC]

1976! The year of the Bicentennial...mods need to change the thread title to "I'm so old, I finally got an engine cover"...?

In early 1977 I was just completing Military punishment for "Failure to adapt to Military Life". And yes, that is (was) a thing!

It is amazing how many options the military has at their disposal to make one's life miserable.
I won't go into the details of what transgression I made to deserve the following punishment, except to say I embarrassed a full bird colonel (who I reportd to) in front of his commander. He so wanted that first star. And he was alot like that colonel on MASH.

For 10 months including over the winter I had the following assignments (this happened at Petersen AFB east of Colorado Springs. BTW, The winters in the late 70's were extremely cold and snowy:

• I painted the same 80' hallway 12 slightly different shades of pastel yellow. The baseboards had to be a gloss black. Several times the colonel himself showed up to "Instruct me on how to paint properly." After the job was done he would come in to inspect it. He would then proceed to tell me the color was all wrong and supply me with a slightly different shade. It was just different enough to keep me busy doing it all over again.
  
  Over night a floor buffing crew would come through and mar that glossy black baseboard resulting in the colonel pointing out the scuffed baseboard. He'd admonish me "get it right airman", and walk away.
  
  
• I painted (with an assortment of military misfits) the 3 story high hangar doors vertical red / white alternating stripes (as in the US Flag) and topped the peak of the hangar in a deep blue field with 13 stars in a circle with "1776 - 1976" in the center rotated about 45 degrees. The pilots complimented us on how pretty they looked from the air.
  
  
• Come winter things got a lot more fun. There were massive warehouses on base. My job was to shovel all the snow off the loading docks that fronted all the buildings. "Icey Concrete is a safety hazard, keep em clean and dry."
  
  
• When it wasn't snowing I was sent out on the runway where the snow fences ran parallel with the runways with an "Area Beautification Mission". I was to pick up all the trash and paper that blew up against the snow fences. They gave me a pickup truck so I could make as many runs as needed. This seems easy but it was hellish. Unless you live there you have no idea how bad it was. Tumble weeds blow up against the fences up to 10' deep. To get to the trash on the fence I had to move all those dead tumble weeds. Those prickly brittle dead tumble weeks.

This hell didn't stop until he transfered out.

Wow! I hadn't thought about this in years, but the mention of the "Bicentennial" triggered the memories. I still loath that colonel.

Those were not found memories!

I smile now, a little.

Time has a way of softening even the worst memories.

 

[GhostStrykre]

In early 1977 I was just completing Military punishment for "Failure to adapt to Military Life". And yes, that is (was) a thing!

It is amazing how many options the military has at their disposal to make one's life miserable.
I won't go into the details of what transgression I made to deserve the following punishment, except to say I embarrassed a full bird colonel (who I reportd to) in front of his commander. He so wanted that first star. And he was alot like that colonel on MASH.

For 10 months including over the winter I had the following assignments (this happened at Petersen AFB east of Colorado Springs. BTW, The winters in the late 70's were extremely cold and snowy:

• I painted the same 80' hallway 12 slightly different shades of pastel yellow. The baseboards had to be a gloss black. Several times the colonel himself showed up to "Instruct me on how to paint properly." After the job was done he would come in to inspect it. He would then proceed to tell me the color was all wrong and supply me with a slightly different shade. It was just different enough to keep me busy doing it all over again.
  
  Over night a floor buffing crew would come through and mar that glossy black baseboard resulting in the colonel pointing out the scuffed baseboard. He'd admonish me "get it right airman", and walk away.
  
  
• I painted (with an assortment of military misfits) the 3 story high hangar doors vertical red / white alternating stripes (as in the US Flag) and topped the peak of the hangar in a deep blue field with 13 stars in a circle with "1776 - 1976" in the center rotated about 45 degrees. The pilots complimented us on how pretty they looked from the air.
  
  
• Come winter things got a lot more fun. There were massive warehouses on base. My job was to shovel all the snow off the loading docks that fronted all the buildings. "Icey Concrete is a safety hazard, keep em clean and dry."
  
  
• When it wasn't snowing I was sent out on the runway where the snow fences ran parallel with the runways with an "Area Beautification Mission". I was to pick up all the trash and paper that blew up against the snow fences. They gave me a pickup truck so I could make as many runs as needed. This seems easy but it was hellish. Unless you live there you have no idea how bad it was. Tumble weeds blow up against the fences up to 10' deep. To get to the trash on the fence I had to move all those dead tumble weeds. Those prickly brittle dead tumble weeks.

This hell didn't stop until he transfered out.

Wow! I hadn't thought about this in years, but the mention of the "Bicentennial" triggered the memories. I still loath that colonel.

Those were not found memories!

I smile now, a little.

Time has a way of softening even the worst memories.

I had to laugh a bit at your expense here because all of those assignments are now farmed out to contractors. Funny enough, they don't get the paint right all the time either. Hell, sometimes the contractors pick the wrong shade of paint for the damn aircraft now, lol.

 

[Msfitoy]

In early 1977 I was just completing Military punishment for "Failure to adapt to Military Life". And yes, that is (was) a thing!

It is amazing how many options the military has at their disposal to make one's life miserable.
I won't go into the details of what transgression I made to deserve the following punishment, except to say I embarrassed a full bird colonel (who I reportd to) in front of his commander. He so wanted that first star. And he was alot like that colonel on MASH.

For 10 months including over the winter I had the following assignments (this happened at Petersen AFB east of Colorado Springs. BTW, The winters in the late 70's were extremely cold and snowy:

• I painted the same 80' hallway 12 slightly different shades of pastel yellow. The baseboards had to be a gloss black. Several times the colonel himself showed up to "Instruct me on how to paint properly." After the job was done he would come in to inspect it. He would then proceed to tell me the color was all wrong and supply me with a slightly different shade. It was just different enough to keep me busy doing it all over again.
  
  Over night a floor buffing crew would come through and mar that glossy black baseboard resulting in the colonel pointing out the scuffed baseboard. He'd admonish me "get it right airman", and walk away.
  
  
• I painted (with an assortment of military misfits) the 3 story high hangar doors vertical red / white alternating stripes (as in the US Flag) and topped the peak of the hangar in a deep blue field with 13 stars in a circle with "1776 - 1976" in the center rotated about 45 degrees. The pilots complimented us on how pretty they looked from the air.
  
  
• Come winter things got a lot more fun. There were massive warehouses on base. My job was to shovel all the snow off the loading docks that fronted all the buildings. "Icey Concrete is a safety hazard, keep em clean and dry."
  
  
• When it wasn't snowing I was sent out on the runway where the snow fences ran parallel with the runways with an "Area Beautification Mission". I was to pick up all the trash and paper that blew up against the snow fences. They gave me a pickup truck so I could make as many runs as needed. This seems easy but it was hellish. Unless you live there you have no idea how bad it was. Tumble weeds blow up against the fences up to 10' deep. To get to the trash on the fence I had to move all those dead tumble weeds. Those prickly brittle dead tumble weeks.

This hell didn't stop until he transfered out.

Wow! I hadn't thought about this in years, but the mention of the "Bicentennial" triggered the memories. I still loath that colonel.

Those were not found memories!

I smile now, a little.

Time has a way of softening even the worst memories.

Maybe of little consequence but he's probably 6 feet under by now...

 

[TJC]

His name was Rick Shaw. Remember him well and met him several times over the years at our reunions.
And of course, Chicken Man...

I stumbled on this double album from WQAM when I was settling my parent's estate, I am sure it was one our the kids album as we collected quite a few back then. Probably my sister's (RIP Deborah).

Anyway I thought you might get a hoot out of seeing it. The 2 record album set is from the late 60' early 70's era. Rick Shaw is shown in several images, but he is clearly seen in the 3rd picture in the lower left corner. In the lower right corner is WQAM's Groovy "MIss Groovy", Robyn Whatley

I've just rebuilt a mid 70's Sanyo turntable and it plays them perfectly.

 

[TJC]

Maybe of little consequence but he's probably 6 feet under by now...

I'm not one to hold grudges, but I was ever so happy to see him transferred. I did learn where the line was... and not to cross it. I kept my head down, did my job, milked them out of an education while in, and promptly got out. The military is not a place for free thinkers.

And FWIW, his replacement expunged my record, and raised my APR rating performance from a 5 to all 9's with one 8 (9 is as high as you could get). The 8 was for ... you guessed it "Failure to adapt to Military Life".

 

[OGMix376]

Like me-Class of '79. My wife was Class of '78 so she's ancient. We're so old we can remember the commercial where the Mazda "goes Hmmm." Date yourself with this quick Mazda quiz: what's an apex ring?

I’ve heard of apex o rings and seals for the wankel rotary engine. Is that what you’re talking about?
.i had two Mazda RX7’s one turbo II 10th anniversary edition and naturally aspirated convertible… the convertible top was no good so it stayed down and I just kept it in my parents garage when not driving it?… the turbo 2 I got to take on laguna seca which was awesome.
Always wanted to build a three rotor (I think they call it a 20B) but Mitsubishi finally brought the Evolution over and had to have one so both Mazdas contributed to getting the EVO8

 

[TJC]

Ha try 1971

The draft was still going strong in 1971 and didn't end until 1973 I think. I know for sure we had to register and that actually ended in or around 1975 I think.

 

[TJC]

I had to laugh a bit at your expense here because all of those assignments are now farmed out to contractors. Funny enough, they don't get the paint right all the time either. Hell, sometimes the contractors pick the wrong shade of paint for the damn aircraft now, lol.

I think I got the paint right. He was just using it as a teaching moment. I give the orders... you follow the orders without question... Sir, Yes Sir!

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