When you buy window cleaner and paper towels by the gross because of the constant oil slick on your windows.

 

you know your a 1st gen owner, when you sit and look at it for 9 months, just because it looks good.. who cares if it runs.

 

you know your a 1st gen owner when there are always little problems with your car that you should fix, but they don't always have anything to do with how it runs, so you never get around to fixing them. eg. headlight problems

 

You know you're a 1st Gen owner when you take the muffler off to **** off the ricers

 

You know your a first gen owner when there are wires roaming around your engine compartment and you have absolutly no idea what they're for.

 

You know you're a 1st Gen owner when:

• You switch off the vent fan at stop lights
• You treat the Air Con Switch like a boost button
• You select recirculate on the vents when you stop
• You only drive with the window open if the wind is right
• Your new passenger asks what that smell is when you turn the heater on
• You have to open the door at the toll booth and parking ticket dispensers

Sorry if some of these are done, I haven't read all 40 odd pages yet

Rgds
Roland

 

-When you take it for "just a little spin up the street and back" and then it turns into a 5 mile extraveganza, of WOT and being retarted because you havent driven it in almost a year.
-When your girlfriends dad says, so did that piece of **** make it here again, and i continue to tell him hell ya, that thing wont die.
-When you walk in the door, and the first words your sisters mother-in-law says is, whats that piece of **** doing in the drive way? And then I say, hey at least it runs like new after a week and a half of friggen around with it.
-When you ask your girlfriend if she'll be rid of you if you spend more time/ money on the 7 then on her. Or when she comes over and you dont move out of the 7, she has to sit on your lap while your in it or get in the passanger seat.
-When you have to determine wether or not its worth it to drive it around with a license plate but its not registered under it. or drive it without a plate at all. (I do it the odd time, and it turns out the black 7 I got a year ago is still registered in Quebec, so theres no way in hell its being saftied. Plus, i might be getting a real nice one under 100k on it and awsome condition, so my friend tells me, but thats another story.)
Jus thought id add that last little bit.
If i repeated one and or more, sorry, i forgot what all was said in here, i read all 40 pages but that was days ago.

Rotary for life!

 

You know you're a 1st Gen owner when you tell a passenger in a different car to "Lift up on the handle when you close it to lock it"!

 

when the guy down the street complains that your truck is to loud and you tell him that the truck dosent run.
when you return a missed call and tell the person that you couldnt get the phone because you were playing with your Wankel.

 

TOO TRUE!!!

Rear wiper, antanna, slowly leaking front tire, cloged windsheild sprayer . . .

 

You know you're a first gen owner when...

your starter dies and you push/pull the car with your left foot, pop the clutch with your right foot, then close the door and go cause you never had to leave the drivers seat to do it.

Yes, the starter in my newly acquired FB died at the mazda dealer today, and yes I did this in public with no assistance(she was still warm). I was happy to have such a light car today Sorry if that's lame, but I'm new to the community and was truly glad to find I could do this myself, lol. Starter is ordered and in route

 

I got a new one....

You know you own an FB when you crash your car into a wall, and only the wall got hurt (you got away with out a scratch)

and....


You know you own an FB if the last time you got rear ended at high velocity, the van that rear ended you has the FB rear end inprinted into their front bumper lol (true story)

 

you know your a first gen owner when you have a wiring harness tucked away in the enigne bay (for a raining day i guess) and when you start looking closer nothing is even plugged in, so you decide to remove it and then the car wont start.

Happend last weekend had to wire the coil and j109 by itself, oh well its still going

 

u know ur a 1st gen owner....
when u check ur oil level weekly or in severe cases daily to make sure it hasnt dropped.

 

u know ur a 1st gen owner...
when u drive around with the lights up, sunroof off, and sunglasses on, on a hot sunny day to look cool.( not that we dont look cool anyways)

 

u know ur a 1st gen owner...
when ur driving ur girlfriend around, ur car turns off at a light and tell her it will be five min. open the hood and plug in the big vaccum line from the intake to ur aircleaner that came off and take off like nothing happened. then tell her i gotta fix that.

 

when you stop noticing the smell

 

You know you're a first gen owner when...

You spend your last $1200 to buy and register an FB...from another state

...then you make your fiancee quit college, get a second job and skip lunch breaks so you can afford to work on the car all day

...then you tell her "No I can't get a second job! I'm too busy working on the seven!!!"

and on a related note

...You know you found a great girl when she already owns a seven and doesn't
leave you for all of the above!!!


(PS I'm getting a second job soon, she will be finishing finishing college and she's not skipping meals...anymore lol)

 

^^^ That is it!!!! I dont notice any more, but a mate of mine who hadnt been in the 7 for 3 months got in and went "i love the smell" i didnt even realize lol

 

does she have a sister??? I am soo glad I'm not the only person who does these things!!!! I imagine heaven to be an actual community of regular people but they all own rotories. I know what you're thinking...how r we gonna haul things...thats what the REPUS are for!

 

You know you're a first gen owner when...

...there is a 2 1/2' metal rod stuck down besides your passenger seat that is just long enough to hit the starter solenoid
...your starter solenoid has dents in it from being hit by that 2 1/2' metal rod
...you swear to yourself you are not going to go around corners any more and kick the tail out, and do it anyways
....you are 38, could afford something else, but nothing makes you smile quite like the SA or FB (I have both)
...the people glowering at you for making all that noise suddenly break into a smile then they see it is an RX7 then ask you what kind of Porsche it is.
...you chuckle at setting off the alarms in the Metro station when your SA lets off its gleeful end-of-drive backfire
...you laugh outloud as people in the same Metro station scurry for cover thinking they are being attacked by terrorists
...you leave that poseur in the 1995 BMW 325is in the dust coming out of a corner
...you look forward to on-ramps and off-ramps
...you look at those days working on British cars as training for owning a first gen RX7
...there is no such thing as staying up too late to work on the car

Live Free, Drive Rotary!

Keith

 

You know you're a 1st gen owner, when the rest of the RX7 owners are amazed at how you can drive your car so often........................

 

You know you're a First Gen owner when you see a notebook or index cards from Bridgeport Office Supplies and quietly chuckle to yourself

 

you know you're a first gen owner when you race some kid in a hopped up grocerie getter and when they get to third gear you're barely out of first.

 

what smell?

Actually my girlfriend told me the inside of my car smelled horrible. I never knew before she told me.

And I was the one that had the "mint" interior out of all my friends.