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Welcome!
It’s likely you own a Mazda Miata (aka MX-5) if you’ve found this page. It’s also likely that if you are a first-time visitor, that you haven’t joined our merry band of enthusiasts. I hope that will change, starting today! We’re the Masters Miata Club. We’ve been waiting for you all along, and we hope you’ll take a chance on us by joining us at one of our upcoming events.
We’re the Miata Club of the 13-county CSRA. That’s a big territory to cover, and it’s tough to get folks who live out in the country to travel a long way to a meeting or an event. But let me add, it can be very worth your time. Why? Because as fun as it is to drive this wonderful roadster solo, it’s even more fun to join a line of radiant sports cars twisting and turning though hills and curves, be it the Dragon at Deal’s Gap or The Pass between Fury’s Ferry and Old Petersburg Rd. There’s a camaraderie born of shared roads and shared meals that’s hard to beat. Of all the accessories you can add to your car, a Miata Club membership is the best value.
We meet at:
Little Mexico Restaurant
614 Edgefield Rd. (aka US25)
North Augusta, SC
the first Thursday night of the month. Come at 5:30 for a social hour, or promptly by 6:30 for the meeting. After the normally brief meeting we take a short drive together to dinner somewhere in the CSRA. We also get together on the 3rd Saturday of the month somewhere else for breakfast. We take day trips and weekend overnighters, and it’s with these journeys that you expand your horizons by visiting places you maybe never considered visiting before.
If you already have a contingent of Miatas in you neighborhood or subdivision, come on out en masse; we’d love to have you for the event, for the drive, and for your company. Our event calendar is on the left, and all you need to do is show up and introduce yourself. We’ll take it from there!
David Schumacher
Masters Miata Club President
By Brian the Red, on August 29th, 2010
The MMC held its 11th Annual Bug Splat Rally last night. Can we call it that even if we skipped the year? The first one was in 1999 and for some reason there wasn’t one in 2002. OK, let’s call it the 10th Annual…
We had six cars manned by 11 wannabe exterminators show up for Mediterranean food before taking it to the street. Maybe the rain showers in the area scared a few participants off, I know it scared off the bugs. We dodged the rain and almost all of the bugs too.
The Biggest Bug Trophy ended up in the hands a new member couple, Dave & Devona Eastman, with their 3″ long streak of moth wing dust. The Closest to the Target was awarded to a small speck of suspected insect about a half inch away from Avery Green Dot on Bumblebee piloted and navigated by a pair of Schumachers. Once again Most Bugs, Garners, and Cleanest Car, Wilmoths, Awards were given to the cars that showed up for the run in that condition. The only folks that didn’t come home winners were the Bogarduses, who in spite of having the lead car advantage, finished in mid pack of of all the categories and last year’s Biggest Bug trophy winner, Denny Smith, whose wife will be ecstatic that he wouldn’t be bringing that monstrosity home again.
By Brian the Red, on August 27th, 2010
Sno Cap Anniversary
Date: Saturday, August 26, 2000
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: Sno Cap Drive In
Members Attending: Shawn Arrowood & fiancée Karen, Bill Baugh, John Bowles, Kurt & Karen Breitinger, Peter Brown, Jim & Judy Creer, Jill Dobson, Brian Godwin, Jack & Karen Norris, Russ Schwalbert, Stacey Timmerman, Rudy Wilmoth, Anita Wylds and Brian Wynne.
We had thirteen cars attend this year‘s 36th anniversary gala for the Sno Cap Drive In. This was a great turnout and made us the largest group there. The MG club had around six or seven cars and the Corvette club had nine or ten.
We got under the main carport some this year, due to numbers and getting there early, usually the Corvettes get the lion’s share of the covered parking. We also had a couple of door prize winners, Anita won a tote bag and Peter Brown took home a hat.
By Brian the Red, on August 13th, 2010
And it looks like it will either be raining or big clouds will be blocking the direction of the meteor’s origination. I would put it off until tomorrow, but the is supposed to be as bad. Maybe next year…
Tonight is the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, but it is not a one day affair, so Donna and I thought maybe a trip to see meteors might be fun to do tomorrow when it is not a “school” night.
Even though they say the best time for viewing is after midnight, some say the longest streaks are to be seen just after dark when the radiant is closest to the horizon.
All we have is an idea and a rough plan. We need to be out in the sticks with a view to the northeast, so our first thought was the Georgia side of Clarks Hill Dam. If you are game, meet us at the Baskin & Robbins at 4366 Washington Rd in Evans at 8:00 PM tomorrow night, August 13th. We’ll have ice cream, chat, drive to the dam, watch the sky until we are amazed or bored and then go home.
By Donna Bogardus, on August 12th, 2010
Where: Little Mexico Restaurant in North Augusta When: August 5, 2010 Who: Bill & Bonnie Baugh, Brian & Donna Bogardus, John & Jackie Nicholls, David & Autumn Schumacher, Denny Smith, Rudy & Patti Wilmoth and Dave Winkler. Treasurer’s Report: $1,233.57, and as a side note the Treasurer reported that he had successfully changed our account type from plain [...] . . . → Read More: August Meeting Minutes
By Brian the Red, on July 30th, 2010
Pool Party Date: Saturday, July 15, 2000 Time: 11:00 AM Place: Georgia Welcome Center Members Attending: Bill Baugh, Bonnie Baugh, Brian Bogardus, Donna Bogardus, Karen, Breitinger, Kurt Breitinger, Jim Creer, Judy Creer, Carol Haff, John Haff and Rudy Wilmoth. Guests Attending: Jim & Peta Culley. Everyone except the Bogarduses met at the Welcome Center for the short drive to the Creer [...] . . . → Read More: 10 Years Ago This Month – July 2000
By Brian the Red, on July 18th, 2010
I expected maybe 4 or 5 cars to show for breakfast, but pretty much double that showed up. Donna and I, Rudy and Patty Wilmoth, Larry & Rita Garner, Denny Smith in yet another yellow Miata (his third), Dave & Autumn Schumacher, Stacey & Cindy Timmerman, Kurt Breitinger and Dave Winkler. Also including Fred [...] . . . → Read More: Breakfast in Edgefield
By Brian the Red, on July 12th, 2010
Date: Saturday, July 17th Time: 7:00 to 10:00 AM Join your fellow Miata Club members for some coffee, a bit of gossip, more coffee, a morning meal and maybe one more refill of coffee. We will meet at 7:00AM at the Circle K at 1132 W Martintown Rd, just south of I-20 Exit #1, for the 20 [...] . . . → Read More: July Miatas For Breakfast
By Patti Wilmoth, on July 3rd, 2010
Once again we had another spectacular fireworks event at Fort Gordon. The Weatherman cooperated and our group consisting of more OTMs than Miatas left the Cracker Barrel at 7:03 for the slow drive to Fort Gordon. Carnival rides replaced our usual spot so we headed to the center of the field and [...] . . . → Read More: FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGANZA
By DESDA2T, on June 20th, 2010
The day started out rather comically as our designated breakfast spot wasn’t open yet for business, and an alternative down the road was closed altogether. We ended up at Dunkin’Donuts in Aiken before being led by Brian on a backroads jaunt to our designated rendezvous spot. And behold, we had 6 cars, count ‘em, six!! [...] . . . → Read More: Ridge Peach Festival – Saturday, June 19, 2010
By DESDA2T, on June 20th, 2010
The night lived up to expectations even if the play on the field didn’t: the Green Jackets trailed the entire came, ending with a 4-1 loss but the 6 of us managed to survive the heat & spilled beer; Autumn even ended up with a T-shirt! And we were treated to a gorgeous top-down drive [...] . . . → Read More: Green Jackets Game – Thirsty Thursday, June 17, 2010
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