Out and about in the RX-7, on a beautiful summer’s evening, in search of catharsis.
what do you go home to?
…and somewhere quiet to snap a photo or two.
Archive for January, 2013
Random snap: On a fine summer’s evening
January 27, 2013
Authors’ Cars: AW11 interior goes black, ain’t never going back.
January 3, 2013
Happy New Year to all retro-classics readers 
You know you have a good daily when the damn thing just keeps on soldiering on and on and on! Apart from needing to change a front right wheel bearing/hub carrier for a WOF, the last year of AW11 motoring has been relatively trouble-free. This car has just ticked over 242,000km and really exemplifies the meaning of “reliable daily driver”!
So over the holiday break I decided to give the MR2 a bit of attention and swap over the black interior that’s been lurking in the depths of my shed for over a year. This entailed gutting the whole cabin on what seemed like the hottest two days of summer so far, and then spending another two days of re-assembly. The results were worth it in the end though!
Goodbye tacky smurf/electric blue.
With the black interior I guarantee the cabin temperature will be a thousand times worse while sitting in the sun, so I should probably re-gas the A/C like I said I was gonna… (more…)
