I don't seem to be having much luck with finding a DD/occasional HPDE toy at all at the moment.
The longer term plan is to wait until my 911 and my house in the UK are both sold and then hunt for another 911 that's going to get some mild tweaks, but for the time being I'm looking for a Miata or an E30 to tide me over at least until the end of the year.
My preference would be a Miata, I've had three already so I know what to look for and can do the common repairs myself. An E30 would be the second choice, that way I wouldn't need to source a hardtop as well, but I haven't really got much experience with them - the ones in the UK were always too grotty.
In both cases, I'm looking at the local-ish craigslists, with the occasional peek on eBay and a regular look on Bimmerforums. I've got wanted ads up on Bimmerforum and on CL down in Sacramento (there aren't a lot of Miatas up here), both to no avail.
So far, I've mainly found heaps, the few good cars tend to get snapped up quicker than I can move (I can't just drive to Sacramento after work, it's 2-3 hours each way so I'm mainly stuck with looking at vehicles on the weekends) or are a lot more expensive than expected (or overpriced).
Anybody got any suggestions where to look or do I just need to be more patient, which isn't easy given that we're now down to 2 running and legal vehicles and probably one if I can't get new tires for the Corvette within a month or so.
Of course the alternative is to open the wallet wide and say "aaaah", the finance something but I'm really, really opposed to that. I have a house payment and a rent payment, plus we're trying to get out of debt, so the last thing I need is more debt.
