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Old Mar 31, 2008 | 09:02 PM
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looking for pics of persimmon red 7's

as the title says. persimmon red is color code R7 and i'm looking for some pics of some 7's in persimmon red!! its not a color that is very common so it will be neat to see how many people post.
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 02:07 AM
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i haven seen any in persimmon red but mines in sunrise red
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 08:11 AM
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Lets ask "Simmon"
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 09:13 AM
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All the first gens I've seen in red are sunrise red, what year was this color code available? Would be cool to see
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 09:45 AM
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https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...=persimmon+red
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 06:42 PM
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good thread! i remember that car!

82transam, i beleive the color was only available in 1984...
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 06:55 PM
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An old car of mine. Sold it a few years ago to a gentleman in NY.
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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 06:56 PM
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beautiful car!!! do you have any higher res pics?
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Old Apr 3, 2008 | 07:51 AM
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anyone else think this was kind of a rare color?

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I heard they were one year only. That old car of mine had a brown interior, but it was so clean it actually grew on me. I wish I had higher resolution pics.

Supposedly persimmon means "japanese fruit" ??????
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Old Apr 3, 2008 | 08:04 AM
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i dunno what it means.. what i do know is that is a beautiful car you had. do you have any more pics of it?
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Old Apr 4, 2008 | 12:23 PM
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The car in that thread is mine BUT the color is a Land Rover color.

That was before I knew much about color options on the 7. I wish I went with this red though.
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Old Apr 4, 2008 | 02:54 PM
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chris, you bought the car from Rotaryhaven?
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Look what popped up on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1984-...em300214292373
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Old Apr 7, 2008 | 11:10 AM
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That is a nice car......The ad confirms that it was a one year only. 1984. My old car was a GSLSE just like this one.
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Old Apr 7, 2008 | 11:44 AM
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that ebay listing really is a nice car ,

thank god it doesn't have the red interior . two tone grey is OK , but black would be awesome in that car.
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Yea black interiors are the best looking IMO, too bad 84/85 never had a black interior, why they didn't offer one I'll never figure out.... Gray is nice too though.
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Old Apr 7, 2008 | 01:38 PM
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the interior on that ebay car looks more like a gray than a black
but that car is in beautiful shape.
however that oval hunk of metal on the front bumper needs to go it just doest belong on a 7
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Agreed that logo thing on the front plate mount is hideous... And the interior is Grey, they didn't have black offered for those years, I was just saying it would be awesome in black.
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chris, you bought the car from Rotaryhaven?
No I did not.
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Old Apr 8, 2008 | 02:24 AM
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if the car werent in CA i'd buy the sucker. why are all the good ones so far away?
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Originally Posted by mazdaverx713b
if the car werent in CA i'd buy the sucker. why are all the good ones so far away?
pretty soon your sig list is going to be too big for you to reply to anything
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Old Apr 8, 2008 | 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by mazdaverx713b
if the car werent in CA i'd buy the sucker. why are all the good ones so far away?

Cause cars don't rust away out there like they do for us over here...
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pretty soon your sig list is going to be too big for you to reply to anything
my sig won't allow me to add any more of my cars. if it did, it would look like this:

80 Leather Sport 61K solar gold. 5spd
84 GSL 55K sunbeam silver 5spd
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85 GS 150K ocean blue 5spd
88 10AE 96K new engine in
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Old Apr 8, 2008 | 10:05 AM
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Cause cars don't rust away out there like they do for us over here...
i know and i'm in a fight with the tin worm every winter over here in OH. my 85 S is a rust bucket. but since its being restored, i'm taking care of all of the rust issues. i'm done with the bins and the all four wheel wells. i'm moving on to the floor and i'm almost half way done there. thats why southern and western cars are the way to go.
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