So I went to Lime Rock yesterday for vintage european and japanese sports car show. Naturally, I took my 79, and of course, was the only RX-7 there. The only other Mazda was a 323 gtx AWD turbo. There was about a dozen Z cars, tons of MG's, Triumphs, Austin Healy's whatnot- but only a few Jap cars. I got the best spot of all though- right on the start/ finish line. I also took a walk around the track with my dad. He didn't even want to bring the because he thought it wouldn't make it the distance (about 80mi. each way) Well, made it there and back with no problems, averaging about 23 mi/gal.

It was a pretty cool show- a lot of people came and talked to me about the 7 and how they used to have one, or something like that. In some ways, it was cool being the only 7 there.

Anyway- here's some pics

 

Awesome! :icon-tup: Man, that looks like it was a blast. And a nice clean looking Rex there, too.

 

Looking very sweet man.

I know what you mean about being the only RX-7 in a show! lol But people do ask a ton of questions about it!

 

Nice looking car man.Way to go getting the best spot.I love the SA's especially in white.Maybe someday I will head over to CT,and we can get together.I am planning a local MARX-7 club gathering pretty soon at my place,if you are interested.I actually brought my 79 to a large local car show last night,and I was feeling really wierd being maybe the only Japanese car at the show.I felt out of place,but who cares,I got to park in the show,and walked around looking at the other cars.I didn't see anyone really looking my car over very hard,but then again I was chasing my 3 year old around,and making sure he didn't touch any of the muscle cars.Thanks for the pics.

Chris

 

nice, that's definately a nice, clean lookin 7. and marx-7, eh? communist-mazda lovers, or something along those line? lol anyway, nice lookin 7, looked like an awsome day for some car-showin.

 

Sweet shot with the Lime Rock sign in the background, make a nice poster print.

 

MARX-7 is the Massachusetts RX-7 owners club.That is funny that you picked that up,I had never thought of it that way.


Chris

 

love it, looks awesome!

 

i love your car. i hope mine will look as nice when im done with it. it was nice talking wiht you there. how much was you RB set up?

 

Thanks, talking to all those people about it was pretty cool, espcially being the only one there and all.

the set up cost $600 + $50 for shipping. Now, I believe the system for the SA's are $650 + shipping. The prices keep going up!!

 

Nice SA and pictures. Lime Rock seems like a nice track from what I see on TV.

 

Beautiful track, hope to race there this year but LRP sure does have some crazy sound restrictions different from SCCA rules.

 

Here is an in-car perspective of Lime Rock from Todd Buras in the Pro Spec Miata series last year.

http://specmiatavideos.com/Race%20Vi...8_05_prosm.wmv

 

Yeah, Lime Rock is beautiful.

No one can race there on sundays due to sound restrictions so they usually have a car show. That weekend was the Rolex GT series race. It was pretty cool walking through the paddock and watching the various race teams working on on their cars and practicing pit stops. Someday, I wanna race there.

 

Nice pics!!! did you get alot people asking you questions?

 

Nice car...nice pictures. Sounds like it was a lot of fun. I remember taking my '79 to Elkhart Lake in Wisconsin a few times shortly after I bought it...fun times.

Your signature is made even funnier by your mispelling of "Wankel" LOL

Rich

 

An extremely nice looking car, and right next to the Porsche. I gotta love that Everytime I go somewhere and a Porsche is there I gotta park next to it.

 

yeah there were tons of older porsches there- it was cool seeing one or two, but 20 of them just got boring.

yes, a lot of people asked questions about it. Just about everybody They had a guy interviewing people going around with a microhphone that broadcasted over the entire show, and he even interviewed me too. Except he kept calling the rotor a "rotor piston" ugh. My car is in pretty good condition, but nothing like some of the "concourse" restorations there, but still a lot of people inquired about it. I talked a long time to an older guy who had one when he was younger.

And just about 100% of the people that walked by stopped to look at the rotor, or take pictures of it. It's an excellent display piece ot have infront of your car.

 

That's pretty cool... your car standing out in the crowd. Lime Rock is a beautiful track. I was watching a replay of that race on SPEED earlier today. Several racers who were there like Bill Auberlin are former RX-7 pilots

 

That rotor infront of your car is NICE!! That's a great display for the only rotor piston car there