My beater made the Zoom Zoom magazine

The MX-3 got a small write-up in Mazda's Zoom-Zoom Magazine. Couple of questionable bits (I dunno about the car being a cult collectible of the souped-up set, and the seats were sourced intact, not as skins. Also James has "only" one hangar). Very cool that it got a mention though, and it looks good in the photo.

http://www.zoomzoommag.ca/summer-2016#!mazda-community

Awesome! How does one go about getting this magazine?

Nice!

Javelin wrote: Awesome! How does one go about getting this magazine?

Reasonably certain you need to own a Mazda.

Appleseed wrote:

Javelin wrote: Awesome! How does one go about getting this magazine?

Reasonably certain you need to own a Mazda.

I owned a Mazda for 5 years & never got any promotional stuff from them. Perhaps beyond owning a Mazda, you might need to have purchased it from a Mazda dealer or somehow have registered with Mazda in some way.

Yeah, I've owned seven or eight Mazdas and have never received it either. It's sent out by dealerships to customer owners. Still haven't seen it in print – a friend sent me the link.

I had a car in it a year or two ago, and getting my hands on a copy was really tough. I think the best way to get one is to drop in to a dealership, and the nearest one is 250 miles away...

I got the hard copy for the first three years after I bought my 5, now I just get the digital version sent to my email.

I noticed the last issue had Dave Coleman's wedding pic – taken at the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca.

Lesley wrote: I noticed the last issue had Dave Coleman's wedding pic – taken at the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca.

Dave Coleman is married? There went my mancrush...

Oh, and congrats Lesley on getting your MX-3 in the mag...

I mean "some other mag"...

In reply to Lesley:

I was going to chime in that contacting Coleman is the best way to get on the magazine list. Also, she must be a very understanding woman as he's an incredibly passionate man about his automobiles and automotive activities.

I've met him, that guy is the Mazda guru. There's a rotary engine on his office floor.

In reply to Lesley:

It's good to know that he's moved it off of the kitchen table then.

captdownshift wrote: In reply to Lesley: It's good to know that he's moved it off of the kitchen table then.

or just make it into a kitchen table

Appleseed wrote:

Javelin wrote: Awesome! How does one go about getting this magazine?

Reasonably certain you need to own a Mazda.

I do! It's even like a newer one and everything!

fireball123 wrote:

captdownshift wrote: In reply to Lesley: It's good to know that he's moved it off of the kitchen table then.

or just make it into a kitchen table

a rotary would make a horrible foundation for a table..

Nice!

You two really raise the bar on wrenching attire, though .

I usually wear clothes deemed 'unsuitable for public viewing' with dirt, grease and rust ground into them so I look like a homeless person.

LOL, we were working in the office when the photographer showed up. I usually look like Pigpen when I'm actually working on the car.

If my wheel wells were that clean and I also never generated brake dust, I could dress like that while working on cars as well! Maybe not the heels, I'm not sure I could pull them off. But seriously, Lesley, that car is unbelievably clean.

Although I might have set the lift a little higher.

Thanks Keith, I put a lot of elbow grease into those wells. Since those pictures were taken, we pulled off the subframe and redid all of the suspension parts as well. When the photogs showed up, we re-enacted installing the struts and brake components since they were done. They must've taken several hundred photos for that little write-up.

Here's what they looked like at the beginning:

6 by Leadfoot Lesley, on Flickr

Now:

suspension by Leadfoot Lesley, on Flickr

In reply to Lesley:

That is artwork

You can either get it from a Mazda dealer or you can find it online..