Today’s seller Good price or no data RX-7 is looking to take down a collection of cars, this is it Mazda has to go. Let’s find out if that collectorthe loss of can be someone else’s gain.
Life is full of small risks. One of those bets is the less and less remote chance that the tuna sushi you are about to eat is full of parasitic earthworms. Then there is the option to buy yesterday 1999 Porsche Boxster for only $ 3,500. Yes, it is a super cheap price for any Boxster that is not on fire or full of the sushi worms mentioned above.
The risk may be real, but a cheap Porsche is a cheap Porsche, and any threat of future financial disaster is certainly masked by the attraction that a Boxster can be obtained. That siren song spawned 67% of you to reward the cheap Porsche with a Nice prize. Now, back to sushi. I highly recommend wasabi.
Sushi and its sashimi brother are delicacies originating in Japan. Another wonderful invention of the island nation is the Mazda RX-7. This small sports car debuted in the late 1970s and carried its Wankel motor and sporting pretensions for three generations and almost a quarter of a century of production.
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This one 1979 Mazda RX-7 comes from the first generation and appears to be a real time capsule in a car, looking a lot like what it was when it got off the boat. Damn, I even expected each of the coins on the console have been coined in the pre-Reagan administration to seal the experimental deal.
The car is claimed as part of a collection, but apparently it is not the collector’s pride and the joy of “burying myself in it”. It is now offered with only 68,264 miles on its belt line.
For those of you born after the fact, the original RX-7 – sometimes referred to as “SA” by its internal code – rocked 100-power edition of Mazda’s Wankel 12A dual 1146cc rotor engine. In this car, this is paired with a five-speed stick. ANs is the case for all first generation cars, power is sent back to a dynamic rear axle with single helical spring.
The car is painted in what appears to be factory silver, combined with a black vinyl cab and light-alloy wheels like those of Chromodora. It looks very tidy, although there are few snot in the body. Notably, there are a few minor scratches on the front bumper and what appears to be a small but obvious scratch on the hood next to one of the pop-up headlights. The only other obvious aesthetic issue is a dealer card on the back.
The ad states that the interior “looks like it just left the dealership,” and the photos confirm this statement. Everything seems to be in a new shape, even the crack-free panel and the factory Clarion stereo.
The ad does not investigate the mechanical condition of the car, nor does it offergiving us a peek under the hood. As we all know, Mazda’s first Rotarians had problems with their apex seals. This is less of a problem today with modern spare parts, but the upgrade requires pulling and disassembling the engine completely.
There is also no news about consumables like tires. These, incidentally, are 185 / 70R13s that have five totally inches of side wall making up almost half of its total diameter. If this is not a setback, I don’t know what is.
Perhaps less setback is the Mazda’s $ 9,999 price tag. It is half the cost of the car when new. You would still have trouble finding another one in a condition as close as this one seems to be.
What do you think, is this clean RX-7 with a clean title worth $ 9,999? Or does this old school press require a new version of that price?
You decide!
Reno – Nevada, Craigslist, or go on here if the ad disappears.
H / T to Noah Silverman for the connection!
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