Miata as first car? Suggestions?

[JPolen01]

Feelings not hurt. Just saying, "bad luck" and "was 100% lied to about the origin of the second motor" are two different things. Turns out it was a quality-unknown junkyard pull that had a bad crankshaft - I was told it came out of a customer's car and only had 60k miles on it. The CELs and overheating all came from that. The motor lasted 2k miles and died as Packer pulled it in to Delta V after he bought it.

I hope you got your money back from that purchase.