Not much time left!

The pictures were taken with a Nikon D600 if anyone was wondering.

 

^^$12,850 with 7 seconds to go!!! It was the guys first time bidding in that auction. Swept in for the WIN!!

 

$12,850; won at the end by someone who had no previous bids in the auction.

Bah, no drama at all for the last hour.

 

Crazy, I wonder who the new owner is and where the car is headed to. Lucky guy!

 

is that a color Rotarydude already have?

 

wow 12.8 must be over sticker price, that's a TON

 

Now is when you wait to see if the car re appears or not, indicating that the sale actually happened. A couple years ago another 1980, Tordado Silver car with 6K original owner miles, sold privately (after an unsucessful run on eBay) for $15K. The story was, some guy on the east coast wanted it, to show up his brother who also had a nice 1st gen. It surfaced the following year on another used exotic car website out that way for low 20s! Like this one, amazing studio shots and perfectly flawless. I've lost track of it since then. If you watch, you see these things come back every now and then like friends you haven't saw in a long time. I'm adding the finger to my handful SAs worth keeping an eye on.

 

Banzai is referring to this SA... listed by the dealer at $21K. Did it sell? for how much? No one seems to know.

Of course the trouble with all such cars, at least for those of us that actually like to _drive_ them, is the Big Cache (and matching price tag) is the low mileage. So. Do you drive your $13K SA until its just a nice, used RX7, worth maybe $6K? Or do you park it to protect your "investment" and watch its value crawl glacially upward for the next 15 yrs?

I'll take a loved-and-driven 70+K mi SA and pocket the...$6K+? difference myself.

Of course this theory goes out the window if you compare it to buying a new sports car. But I think we are talking two different sort of owners.

To my peeps here: drive it like you stole it!

Stu Aull
80GS
Alaska

 

The reason these cars keep turning back up for sale is that they are frequently bought not by enthusiasts or collectors, but by speculators who don't actually collect or value the cars for what they are - - they just want to maybe have it for a little while to say they had it, and then try to turn a profit on it without any actual effort.

 

No argument from me on that point in general DD - but would have to think that something more Mainstream would appeal to a money-guy than our little out-in-left-field rotary coupes. I think the guy who plunked the $13k on Goldfinger did so for LUV (OK. Lust)

Unless a Spec-buyer hung on to this for a l-o-o-ong time, by the time you pay auction or consignment fees to resell this, you will be lucky to break even. And that presumes you don't do anything but trailer it home.


Stu Aull
80GS
Alaska

 

I hope it went to someone who will appreciate it. I'd much rather see it show up at a car show or event, or an enthusiast site, than back on eBay, personally.

Unless of course I win the lottery.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mazda-RX-7-GSL-SE-1985-mazda-rx-7-gsl-se-coupe-2-door-1-3-l-/290964026414?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item43beceb42e&vxp=mtr
$12,800 I wonder how he came up with that number? Coincidence?

 

LOL... a Zero-history eBay seller, too; joined two days ago.

Looks like a nice enough car, but jeez, people are lazy. Four pictures, no history - - "Hey, let's ask the same price as that other car that was 5 years older, had lower miles, was a rare color, and was so beautifully documented. Why not?!"

Visible from just these four pix:

One wiper arm nut cover is missing.

One part of the wiring harness has been unbolted from its attachment at the radiator support, and another wire is draped across the top of the strut tower for some reason.

The battery J-hook has been replaced with a non-stock part from Auto Zone.

Hood-prop rod hold-down clip looks busted.

Rear wiper arm is missing.

Rear MAZDA logo appears to be misaligned; Broken pin? Or repaint?

Rear center plastic looks to be shifted to the right, too.

The beading around the sunroof is body-colored instead of black rubber - is this correct for an FB? Every FB I can recall seeing either has black trim on the steel sunroof, or had it removed. This has raised white trim.

It's a very nice car, all things considered, but a $13k car? IMO, no. More like $7k or so.

 

no they all had a black rubber beading, same as an SA.

also the white letter tires, which are ok on a 79, but a GSL-SE came on pirelli p6's!

 

Here is my dream FD! Montego Blue, tan interior, all stock. Only one flaw on the entire car, but it's a big one. Can anyone see it?

My favorite ebay find was the 91 vert with 14 miles! It went for like $30,000. The story went something like... old guy bought it in 1991, drove it home, got ill, died, and the family kept it in storage for 20 years.

 

26 watchers, no bidders.

I'm tempted to offer $500 for it, just to see what happens. Worst case, I'd get "stuck" with it at that price. Darn.

 

I didnt post a link... This would look perfect in my dream garage. My current SA, a MINT 10AE, a 20b powered Miata R package, and this FD... I think my wife would have to park outside. Sorry.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mazda-RX-7-2dr-24K-MI-1993-mazda-rx-7-rx-7-1-owner-rotary-turbo-24-k-miles-auto-rare-sports-coupe-/190886599840?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item2c71ba5ca0&vxp=mtr

 

24k for an automatic? that's about 2x what its worth... Mr i like my Rx7's cheap!

that car looks ok (except the gross 93 tan, there is too much!)

i ran the warranty history thru Mazda, and its got one small oddity,
VIN Status W2 - NO BODY/PAINT WARR.

i've never seen that before, so i don't know what it means. it has had a bunch of stuff replaced under warranty, but none look like they have anything to do with the body or paint. the amount of stuff its had changed is on the low end of average for a 93 FD, its only about 28 items long, probably due to the low miles.

 

My favorite interiors are the tan/black and black/red. Montego Blue is definatly my favorite FD color. You found the flaw I mentioned! No AT!