ProjectR13B

iTrader: (1)

haha i think that applies to everyone that owns a 7 haha

MosesX605

Part of it is nostalgia. My first car was an '82 FB and while it was an utter piece of ****, I fell in love with the uniqueness of the engine, the almost telepathic link between the car and the driver and the snug cockpit featuring a large tachometer in the center of the gauge cluster. I then moved into a cosmetically dismal but mechanically good '79 and proceeded to drive the doors off it. I learned to drive fast in that car and went through scores of tires, three full sets of struts and two engines. It's my toy, my hobby and my passion.

It makes a great noise, it turns very nicely and it makes me look like I know what I'm doing out there on a Solo II course. I have the most fun when I'm in my car, negotiating a tricky corner or going flat out around a fast sweeper and kicking the tail out.

That's why I love my SA.

renascence

Well... for me, my dad owned one back when I was a kid. It was just your standard 85' but I fell in love with Rx-7's then and there. For the past three years I have owned an 83' GSl and it has never let me down. It's not the fastest car out there but RX-7's are sleek and just fun to get behind the wheel of. I mean, you can't beat being able to chirp the tires all the way through third gear without much effort. Who wouldn't fall in love with a first gen. RX-7.

renascence

So very true...

Rotor Nut

For me it started when I was born, My dad had a 81 S or GS (I don't know which one) Being the creative guy he is, took out the storage bin behind the drivers seat and used that space and the space in between the seats to bolt my car seat down ( I wish I had a picture of that). From then the first car I bought was a 79 SA GS for $500 with 57k miles. Then I got my 84 GSL for free (another long story). Now I have two 7's and are looking for a parts car (another long story) and eventually I want a FC and a FD. But for me I can say that besides the fact that they are just fun a a different kinds of cars it was a match made at birth.

elwood

iTrader: (1)

My dad had decided to go car shopping, and one of the machines on his list was an AMC Matador wagon (If memory serves me right). We went to the dealership, which just happened to sell Mazdas, too, and there it was in the middle of the sales floor -- a red '79 RX-7. I stopped, my jaw dropped, and I was imprinted right there -- like seeing the love of your life in the middle of the dance floor. I got to sit in the car and fiddle with the buttons (wasn't old enough to drive).

I've been in love ever since. The first car I bought was an '84 GSL in 1988 -- red, of course.

rotornoob

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first time i saw a 7 i fell in love with it. i was driving my smashed up 93 sentra and living wiht 2 roommates. one worked in a post office and the other one was a student. well my student rommy needed a car pretty bad and my post office buddy knew someone that was giving their car away since they weree moving to a veterans home.

they took me to look at it as i was the only one with any semblance of mechanical affinity, and as soon as i saw it i loved it. i didnt know what it was until i saw the badges on the side and i damn near **** myself....an rx7...the hero of early racing days, a legend in its own right, for free......to my roomy.....

the roomy drove it on moving permits and tried to smog it but it failed miserably. gross polluter doesnt even describe the results. he still drove it for about 2 months and had to park it when the clutch master and slave went out. he bought the parts and had me put them in and i truly fell in love with the car. it had a beehive oil cooler so things were a little cramped but compared to my sentra it was so simple that i wanted to get one for myself.

after a few weeks my roomy decided that he didnt want to dump money in to it to make it pass smog so he sold it to me for $300 ( the price of parts, smog test and fluids he had already paid) and wha la...my first seven.

i rebuilt the carb on it to attempt to pass smog and ended up having to replace the floats after the rebuild due to them taking on fluid. i got it running fine and then i flooded it

i had thought i destroyed it after several attemps to correct the flooding failed and i got a strange substance on my plugs (later i found that it just had too much oil in the chamber and was contaminating my plugs with oil and preventing spark) so i bought another one for $300 from a few blocks away. i switched the carbs and the cap/rotor, got he new one smogged and legal (after i drove it for about 6 mos. illegally) and have been winding it up ever since.

it was just really appealing to me that i would be driving a racing legend instead of my little commuter turned experimentation car ( the sentra saw things through the side windows almost daily due to me trying to powerslide in it...i did get pretty good at handling that car though.....)

so i fell in love as soon as i saw it but it was more of the legend that drug me in and not the looks.

estrada42

I've always liked them. Being a hardcore Datsun guy (I've owned 5 Z's), I love anything with a long hood and two seats. RWD? Ultra light? A unique powerplant that makes 100hp per liter? How can you not love it.

I fell in love with mine becuase it was free and ha d a great interior and a iffy paintjob. It sat for ten years with a cat that more of a rock then a free-flowing exhaust system. Now I drive it everyday and I love revving the hell out of it. When I get too about 5500, mine has a built in smoke screen to hide me from traffic too, how cool is that. Every kid wants a car with a smoke screen, and now I have one. I rule.