The car first came as a surprise to me when I returned from New Zealand in 2019, and so my journey began. In 2021 I encountered my first major learning curve and first stage of the build when I was in a car accident which left the driver side door completely caved in, rear and front guards also with major damage. The car had sustained damage in multiple areas in the past and it was time to get out the bog and paint, for weeks in between school and work me and my dad sourced a new door. He taught me how to bog, sand and hammer my panels back into shape. We then painted it a primmer black which is how it remained for months. In August 2021 my car said hi to a curb and bye to my old wheels and I was forced to get a new set but didn't have the money to get genuine wheels. In November 2021 we painted the mx5 and the wheels went on and flares were also added. In the beginning of 2022 the plan to build a rotary mx5 began. Slowly I was sourcing parts, researching and trying to create as much of a plan as possible to build the car. I rebuilt the engine myself in April of 2022 as I was wanting to give myself the motivation to start the process however we still had no idea what gearbox to use. In October of 2022, after lots and lots or research, we finally discovered that a Series 1/2 bell housing would bolt straight to the NB 5 speed gearbox. The mx5 had a significant oil leak at that time too so in the beginning of November the engine came out and the build began. By the end of January we had custom fabricated the subframe and mounts and by the end of February the engine was in and it was on to custom fabricating the exhaust which was a very long process. Finally, on March 17th, liquids went in and I had finished the electrical work. After a long journey for my dad and I we finally started the car up for the first time and I cried so hard, it was such a relief. However then came a very stressful time where we were having issues with the clutch and getting it driving. It did not look possible without removing the whole engine, subframe and exhaust, undoing all our hard work just to get to the gearbox. Luckily after a few weeks and eliminating everything we decided to check the master cylinder which was new and shouldn't have had any issues. We replaced the master cylinder and instead of using the rx7 one we had, we got the stock mx5 one and it worked. There we had it, by April I had a running and driving 13b full Bridgeport mx5.