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5400-Mile 1981 Mazda RX-7 GSL | Bring a Trailer

I wonder if any of the Ohio guys know the owner?

 

So few miles. Lots of little quirks: door pulls from the metro-bus, inverter (?!) installed in the engine bay, and is that a center channel speaker behind the front tag?

 

Looks like fog light/cover? Can't see other side past lic. plate bracket.

 

That rear spoiler looks hideous on this.

 

I think those are fog lights with covers and the rear spoiler is a bit much.

The custom door pulls and the stereo setup actually spoil the interior a bit.



I see aftermarket stereo and mixer in the console and another mixer on the left of the console under
the dash. Whats that? I also see some extra red/green wires coming from the battery back to the
firewall for what purpose? Stereo or alarm?

 

Took me awhile to find that inverter. That must be where the extra wires are going. I think
someone used to park his ride and plug stuff into it when they partied! That or it was for
the light when working on the car (which I doubt because he had a mechanic change his
oil consistently).

 

I think the dual eq setup is for front and rear. Back in the day, I recall lots of eq/amp combinations.

And GSLforme is right, I looked at other shots and the box behind the front tag is indeed 2 boxes: foglights with plastic covers.

 

They looked familiar,installed quite a few sets of fog lights on new Rxs. Dealership accessory add ons,some came from Mazda sold thru parts dept. The ones on this car i think are Marchal,if one i'm thinking of, the cover flips up with a hinge on top side of lamp for use and flipped back down when not in use. Cute but not effective,quality wasn't that good,reflector +bulb holder used to rust out from water entry. Installed lots of Bosch Fog lamp sets which were much better made and had a well designed lens. Still have a set on my daily driver. That spoiler does indeed look out of place on that car. Had a Boss 302 Mustang i used to eat KFC dinners off the rear spoiler while at car shows. The one on this car is big enough to hold a turkey dinner +all the trimmings.

 

Its up to $5,500.00 with 2 days to go. Kind of what I expected but a little more really. Surprised its
getting this amount of bids. Good news for any of us I suppose.

 

I talked to the owner a month ago. He bought it from one of his customers for $10K. He's willing to sell it for a loss to buy a house. I would be interested if not for the speakers and the door pulls in the panels. The spoiler can be replaced by a smaller one. He said it runs and drives like a new car. I believe he said he owns a couple of car wash/detail shops.

 

Well, I assume he has a reserve on it and theres little more than 1.5 hours left and its still at $5500.00.

Unless his reserve is really low, it probably won't sell.

 

$8250 with 14 minutes left

 

Ended at $10,500. I don't know what there fees are but he didn't take too much of a loss if any and probably broke even.

 

Wow! Absolutely unbelievable. Good for him and us. It looks like 1st gens are starting to be collector
items.