The result of an uneventful evening’s tow mission last night sees my track-spec TX3 finally join the other one in their permanent new home.
aka, Operation: Moneypit.
These two cars alone have cost me infinitely more in time, money and sanity than all of the others combined…
And I’m still determined on resurrecting the black one. What on earth could be wrong with me? No, wait, don’t answer that.
Choiceness! Ewan’s (of hayatonka.com) Celica recently made an appearance on one of the Minkara blogs I browse regularly. Looks like these photos were taken in the parking lot at the 2011 Nagoya Nostalgic Car Show. Very cool to see the Celica making the rounds and attracting a whole heap of attention over in Japland.
Definitely turning heads.
Especially with this setup “lurking” under (and over) the bonnet! (more…)
Ah, the things you find when searching for RX-7 memorabilia on the internerds!
Back in good ol’ 1985, owning a Mazda RX-7 meant Serious Business. So serious, in fact, that the official RX-7 Club of America produced its own line of contemporary clothing, including a very swish John Player Executive jacket for the guys, and a whole range of fashion accessories and publications.
Best worn with Ludicrous Shades, Your Best Pornstache, and Judas Rockin’ Priest blasting out the stereo!
RX-7 Fashion '85! Pastel and big hair galore.
...and rocking jackets with nothing underneath.
with thanks to Foxed.ca – home of the largest collection of out-of-print Mazda manuals.
Kicking off 2012 with an update on everyone’s favourite savanna banana!
Progress on the two-seater conversion has been excruciatingly slow. So slow in fact that I’ve been considering just giving up completely and rolling around with four seats and a “dodgy” WOF.
But lo and behold – towards the end of last year I found a listing on ebay for the elusive rear storage compartments, and immediately hit “buy now” as I was fairly sure I wouldn’t get another chance for an eternity. After some to-ing and fro-ing between myself and the seller, and a couple of long distance phone calls, I convinced him to sell me the rest of the rear interior parts, and he seemed to understand exactly which items I was after, so fingers crossed he a) actually goes thru with the deal and b) sends all the parts!
of course the next hurdle is getting all the items to NZ without spending a metric crapton on shipping!
Like rocking horse shit, with the lids intact, and even the keys!
Got back from holiday this week and none of my friends seemed interested in hanging out, so I went down to the lockup and started readying the RX-7 for the eventual 2-seater conversion.
Springs, over-rated?
I finally got around to doing something to the height of the Sunny coupe. I borrowed some spring compressors (as seen on the lower right of the shot) and played around with the fronts. I got it down about 2½” in the front which is still about 1″ clear of the tyre, before turning on the rear and taking about 1½” out there which has lowered and evened it up (previously the rear was a bit lower). There’s not really any more to take before having to alter the shock absorbers, which I’m not about to do in a hurry. Money spending will be done on the 110, not the 310.
-Michael
