When I flew to Dallas to buy the car, I had with me the visor blanking plates I had already purchased. You see, as low as the roof is, the visors in the car don't serve a lot of purpose except get in the way of my line of sight out the front windshield! Since a lot of Miata owners feel the same way, aftermarket suppliers sell these little blanking plates, that fill the hole left when owners remove their visors. After buying the car, my friends and I stopped for lunch, and after ordering, I went back out to remove the visors and install my blanking plates! Ah, much better! And that ugly yellow warning sticker is gone too!
Next mod was after I got the car home. The car comes from the factory with amber colored front side marker lights. On my Black Mica paint, those side markers just did NOT look good. In such close proximity to the headlights, the new clear side markers look much better, don't you think? The clear lenses came with amber bulbs, so they do shine amber when they're lit.
I still need to remove those clear side markers sometime to smoke them a little - so they'll match the factory smoked headlight lenses.
A week and a half after getting home, I made two more modifications. I removed the little factory meep-meep horn and replaced it with a Nautilus air horn - much better sound, and considerably louder - the latter of which is what justified the expense. I've found that other drivers tend to not see this little car with their quick glances (it's 3 feet shorter than a Camry!), and they come right over into my lane! Thus, the louder horn. And finally, Miatas come with two little hooks in the front "mouth" (where a grille would be if there were one) - they look like tow hooks, but are in fact simply tie down hooks used during shipping, and serve no later purpose. In the Miata community, they're known as baby teeth. Now, they're gone!
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