http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mazda...5fTrucks#v4-37


- and that $$ does NOT even meet his reserve!
900 mi - but this Canuk is d-r-e-a-m-i-n-g

(...or I want $12K for mine then....)


Stu Aull
80GS
Alaska

 

all i got to say to him is good luck with that. also, is that REALLY the original shift boot?

 

My 79 LE also has that rubber shift boot

I think its underpriced , but then I just want to see LE's sell as high as they can )))

 

wrong shifter boot that is not the correct shifter boot, i actually purchased one NOS about 15 years back it is not rubber, that is the correct **** and steering wheel, note that the stiching on the wheel is white later years the color got darker. Those are the OEM wheels however I was able to accquire a set of them NOS 2 years ago out of florida. I am a little concerned with the shape of the center cap on the rim for a car that only has 900 miles and was indoor stored though. I have seen a couple of US spec cars with 75k miles on them which is roughly equal to 110k kms that are in this good of shape and with the addition of some NOS tires well you get the picture......

 

I don't believe the mileage claim at all. I would believe 100900 miles on it. I think the odo rolled over. Also why are the pulleys all painted white on the engine? I don't think that was part of the LE package was it? Plus you can't veen see the seat condition. At 900 miles the seats should be near perfect but at 100k they would be ripped and the covers would make sense. I should know

Nice looking LE but more like $6 or $7k for it. He's not going to sell it for $25k, even he meant canadian at $25k its still too much.

 

Considering our dollar is getting pretty close to equal with the US dollar, $25K either way is too much. Why you would need to protect the seats on such a low mileage car is beyond me. If it's been stored and never sees snow or salt, then the seats would look like new too, so why cover them up when you take pictures to try to sell the car. I don't think the odo rolled over, because the shape of the car is too good to have seen over 999,999KM. Hell, it's too good to have seen over 250K km. But even if it is completely original and low mileage, it's still not worth nearly twice the original cost.

 

SA odometers roll-over at 100k (miles or KM depending on the speedo) I would believe that it hasn't seen snow or salt after all it only has 100k kms on it and it is 30 years old at normal driving rates you would be looking at close to 500k kms. I was just saying that it too easy to professionally detail a car with minor touch ups that would cover up the imperfections. If the seat covers are in great shape look at the outer bolster on the bottom of the drivers seat if it is flattened or pushed out you know that days have been spent in this car as opposed to the claimed hours. I also wonder about the amount of wear seen on the leather of the shift **** 900 miles shouldn't have worn it that much. What happend to the original shifter boot?

Although I would love to see it go for 25k that would mean my special SAs are worth a hell of alot more I agree that it won't see it. There was an LE on ebay a few months back with 25k miles on it that couldn't bring 8k and it was every bit as nice or nicer.

 

Is it just me, or don't the front of the strut caps look awfully sandblasted/weatherbeaten for a >1000mi car?

The bolts on the rad cover sheetmetal appear to be pretty heavily rusted, too.

 

I say the maintence sticker on the drivers door with all those checkmarks is a give-away. With only 900 miles, why so any oil changes? I would like to have a close up of that sticker to see the mileage.

Did they really have that kind of cloth on the door cards?

 

lot of 79 engines have those off white pulleys.

yes, but at 900miles the wear from rolling the windows up and down is heavy! on both sides!

all the cad plated stuff, and the plastic under the hood is really nice, so 100,900km seems too high, but too much for 900km?

something isn't right

and the clock's not working, pics are taken with the engine running!

 

to answer the interior question, yes that is the Limited Edition Special interior package, the seats were also done in a similar manner.

 

Would you drive around on 30 year old oil?

What about 20 year old oil? 10? 5?

Even 2 year old oil?

30 oil changes on a 30 year old car even with low milage isn't unreasonable.

 

Yep, mine gets changed every year whether it needs it or not... logged 1000 miles last year, total.

On the other hand, 30 trips just to get oil changed (that's an AMC maintenance-record slip, of a type I haven't seen actually used in decades; AMC having gone belly-up in 1987) would total 900 miles if the one-way distance, storage to mechanic, was only 450/30=15 miles... with nothing allotted for test drives, buying gas, or anything else.

That's only 30 miles a year, on average. You have to drive a stock SA about 250 miles to empty the gas tank. What shape do you suppose the fuel system is in?



I don't recall the stock battery hold-down being cad-plate, either; both my original, and my OEM replacement one, were black-coated. Maybe 79's were different.

Isn't there supposed to be a battery-cable restraint clip on the outboard battery hold-down hook?

 

You guys are all RSI's and should have a show

Rotary Scene Investigators

 

You spend enough time staring at pics of SA's and FB's and you start to easily spot what isn't right.

 

79 pulleys were painted white, as far as the plastic and cad plated stuff looking great, if you search my posts about 2 years back i posted an early 79 (5/78) that had 75k orig miles that looked this good under hood or better and it came from hot and humid texas. That was a one owner that a mazda dealer bought detailed and shows on the showroom floor from time to time.

The rough conversion on 109k kms is 60,600 miles roughly 15k less miles than that one had so it is easily possible

If you guys pull up that thread it has all the pics to document the way a SA should look with the right tiedowns etc.

 

So. will someone END all this speculation and just BUY the damn thing!


Fuel to the Fires:
behold the $39K 79 sparks yellow RX7 (Hemmings posting). I am confident the happy owner still has this sitting in his garage awaiting the Second Coming...

Stu Aull
80GS
Alaska

 

Stu, didn't you create enough stir with the 25K car, now you got to throw ole yeller in there? My later 79's had the creme colored pulleys, Not sure about early ones, I suppose white is possibile. I noticed the lack of A/C compressor and hoses. I thought all limited's had air. Also, does anyone have an opinion on chrome trim ring on the shift surround? Not sure if it's the lighting, but it appears chrome. I always believed this option came in 1980.

 

I don't think the price is super out of the question, if the mileage is correct.

A 1984 VW GTI with 517 miles was just on eBay. Last time I saw it was over $15,000 on a no reserve system. I don't think GTI's are as rare as an LE SA either. I'd say the price should definately be astronomical if it really does have 900 miles, however the GTI I saw was in incredible, showroom condition, with documentation on everything. This has doesn't really have anything going for it in that respect.

 

Banzi the coloring on the pulleys is very near white just a hit of cream in it, when they age and oxidize they take on more of cream or tan coloring ( info like this is what I get from the NOS crap I collect ) A/C was about the only option available on a LE one can only guess and since the installs were done at the port or dealerships that if a car was going to canada it wasn't slated to come with A/C unless the dealer did it.

In answer to you 2nd question the shifter trim is correct the boot is not. You are correct that the silver with chrome ring became an 1980 standard however it was introduced on the 79 LE car.

As for old yeller I don't remember that Hemmings ad however I find it really amusing.

 

Ooh Ooh Ooh... Gotta have it....... Not.... Even with my Hardon for yellow ones and if I won the lottery it wouldn't happen. did I read that right only 347 yellow produced worldwide...... I think I have destroyed more than that and I still have... lets see 5 Spark Yellows now.


Stu you are just plan nuts I would sooner spend 40k on a Cosmo 110s than that

 

Small correction here but I agree the boot looks wrong. The 80 shifter boot bezel was only chromed plastic on the GS models not the base S models.

 

yes the black one was still available in 1980 what i was trying to say is that the chrome ring could only be had in 79 on the LE. However, you did not need a "special" (ie LS/anniversary/limeted) to get it in 80. I probably should have been more clear on my meaning of "standard"

 

Now, that's something I didn't know. Interesting!

Did the same hold true for the chrome trimline on the doors and dash, and the chrome finisher on the door handles, or was it only the shift surround?

 

No the chrome finish on the door panels and dash was the kind of the same no matter what car it was the only different one was the early 79s with the dual chrome strip all the later cars roughly 10/78 build date had single chrome strips the dash one was the only difference and if memory serves me correct it was available in black, drk brown and wine depending on the interior color. as for the door handles ALL 79s came with plastic door handles all 80s and later were chrome metal.

Also I don't want to quote it because I don't have the documents in front of me to reference, but I think that any 80 could be had with the gray radio face plate which would give you a chrome trim ring on the shifter boot, however not all did have it, the only way for me to know for sure is to reference my sales guide and the parts manual. It is a fact that to get the black one the car did have to be a base model, but i believe even the base model could be had with the optional face plate