Be True

I want it to be true so bad. It’s not even about the car; before last night I had no interest in getting another car. It’s that delicious fantasy of getting more back than you put in, like that dream where you put a quarter in the vending machine and it spits out two and then you do it over and over again.

The Mazda Miata has come a long way so I wasn’t surprised when, just for kicks, I looked at for-sale ads and found they are not terribly inexpensive. I’ve been thinking about getting a “project” car to fix and resell so I sorted the listings by price. I found a beautiful 2006 Miata in perfect shape with about 4k miles with an asking price of $3700! I’ve been emailing and calling the seller to verify whether the price is a typo, but I’ve not heard anything back. I’m ready to take the train 115 miles out to pick up the car, but what are the chances this ad is legit? He won’t be calling back, will he?