OK so here are the pictures. Take a look and a guess!


http://s969.photobucket.com/albums/ae176/g3none/RX7/

That is really sweet. I have never seen a rear seat in a 1st gen.
Kinda strange to have a build date of 1980 but the other sticker says it conforms to regulations applicable to 1984 model year new motor vehicles.
Especially sense build date plus 1 equals model year.......usually.
I.E. build date 1980, model year 1981. :scratch:

That is a Euro Market car. RotaryDude will be able to tell you more about it. It has Euro-Spec front turn signals (back by the doors), Euro-Spec power mirrors, headlight squirters (I had a Danish car that I sold to one of RotaryDude's buddies that didn't have them), and it has the same injection molded rubber spoiler that was on my car.

It also has the same clock.

Post the VIN and we can give you a year. It will be "SA22C____________". This is considered a S2 car. The main difference between the S2 and the S3 is that in the US, the S3 cars switched to a "JM1FB____________" VIN, whereas the rest of the world still had SA22C through 1985.

Sa22c00651061

Here is my old Euro Spec car:

http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/i...o%20Spec%20FB/

I can't remember if it was Dutch or Danish, but it was one of the two.

you can buy the underhood stickers, they don't mean much

Looking at the pictures the guy who imported in was Ludwig Binkert... If you google his name... A bunch of German sites come up.

Now I am no Cagney and Lacey, but one could surmise that it was imported from Germany!

Sweet - thanks for the pics! This further helps support my guess that I have a Euro Model car.

I'm betting Switzerland, actually.

The serial number (Sa22c00651061) puts it well after the serial number range that ended S1 construction. The '80 parts fiche shows the last month of production for S1 cars (September of 80) started 629954, and production counts had already ramped down to only about 500 S1's built in Aug. of 80. No way they would have burned through another 20,000+ numbers in September.

So your car was probably built sometime in the last 3 months of 1980 (which would explain the import date), and was built as an honest S2, Eurospec.

Side mirrors are also distinctively Eurospec. Stu's got a set on his car.

The emissions sticker cites conformance to US EPA regs for a car years later in build but of the same basic design, so either the stickers were replaced when the car was imported to the states, or maybe the hood isn't original to the car.

Great find. Be interesting to see how much of the car's history you can reconstruct... maybe there's a customs record of when it was brought stateside?


PS: "Ludwig Binkert" of Switzerland has a Facebook page. From the pic, he looks old enough to have maybe had a -7 in the 80's. Maybe you can shoot him an inquiry, including the pic of the car, using google translate or bablefish?