They're still out there.

[Ron Mummert]

Yesterday, while on a westward jaunt in the Miata seeking some Blue Ridge top down fall foliage gawking, I'm approached from the opposite side of a 4 lane road by the unmistakable car with funny windows. With both of us going at highway speeds, I figured he'd be long gone, but as the rearview mirror showed an SVX blinker, & he (I assumed "he") was turning on what looked to be a gravel road (it was). So, WTF....I made U-turn at a convenient cross-over, & chased after my prey, which was now conveniently stopped at a metal gate blocking the gravel road's access. The driver (a "he") had gotten out of the SVX to unlock the gate. Turned out it was the entrance to his residence. So, as he may have wondered why an old fart in a Miata would be chasing after him, I quickly explained that I had "one o' these" & his was the first one I'd seen in this rural part of Virginny in probably 5 years. He was delighted, & if covid weren't lurking we would have shaken hands at this point. So, we exchanged the usual SVX conversation topics. His name is Lloyd, in his mid-40s I'd guess, & inherited the car from his dad who bought it new (It's a '94 I believe) & had 194K on it. And, he loved it. It was a bit rough in the paint department, & the wing looked to be from some other car, and the stock wheels were on backwards, which we joked about. But, he'd never joined any on-line groups, & got service work done by a local Suby mechanic. So, I told him about the Reading meets, & gave him an SVX.net club card. We smiled (kept our social distance maskless), & bid adieu. So, the moral of the story might be that perhaps tucked away in faraway places, we might still find a few of our babies, still being appreciated without all the fanfare. Ron. (coming up on 20 years of SVX ownership)