i was wondering what this means? there was one on my brothers FC and then there is this one on his FB that he bought a few weeks ago.

 

As it says, Mazda won the IMSA GTU Manufacturers Championship with the RX-7 from 1980 thru 1987.
Those were updated every year, and affixed to the window on all cars. Many people scraped them off, while others were proud to display the racing legacy of their car.

 

And some guy on this board said he was going to do a limited reproduction run of those IMSA/GTU stickers and never did despite getting quite a bit of material from a lot of different members here in this Forum......I still got my money waiting on this sticker. Attempts in the old junkyard to peel/slice/scrape these stickers off the glass like registration tags just destroys them and I really have no intention of replacing that whole quarter window just to get that sticker on the car...

 

i had this same question almost 4 years ago. you'll find a lot of answers in the thread i started. here's the link: https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...light=imsa+gtu

 

to whoever the dude is that is remaking those, i'll take one too.

 

Never seen one on an FC......got any pics of it?

 

It was alien rx7....he let the thread die apparently because his sources never got any file good enough to do the sticker or maybe they weren't as interested in doing it as he was led to believe...here's what ray green contributed...



I'll pull it tonight and rework it on Adobe to get the resolution the alien wants, clean up the edges for a real circle and get rid of the car domain intrusion....we'll see what happens next....maybe a full court PM blitz on alien?

 

That is some classic **** right there. You dont see that sort of thing on a ford probe

 

I've seen them on FC's before. Im not sure, but my '85 may have one on it...i canna remember.

 

i dont have any direct ones of it i dont think. i will look through the old PC for some pics if i have any.

 

the rear 1/4 window is not hard to pull out.. i beleave its only a few 10mm bolts

 

not sure how late they had them on the fc's, my 86 had one, i found the 2 half moon peices of backing paper for it under the carpet too

 

That's a nice looking sticker you got there Mar3...Oh yeh it's mine! I can email you a tiff file with better resolution and missing the cardomain logo, if you like. I might even be able to get a better photo if I can get the light just right.

On getting out the rear quarter window, I don't think it is that easy, ie not just a couple of bolts. It's glued in just like the windshield and you have to saw it out using a piano wire. Even the pros say this is a tricky laborious procedure that only works about half the time, as often as not the glass cracks.

I'm attempting to do this now in preparation for taking out a windshield for reuse and I've already put a chip in my practice window, a right rear quarter window. I want to try out a few other techniques but so far I have concluded it's a labor intensive and delicate bitch.

But if I get it to work and I get my windshield out successfully, I do have the left side rear quarter window and it does have the sticker on it (the one pictured above, I do believe) so if anyone is really determined to get an original sticker, pop me a message.

Here's the photos of the stickers on my other cars:







Ray

 

I went out and took a pciture of the one on my newly acquired 1985 GSL, it's the best one yet:



Here's the link to the whole set:

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/479957/5

 

i have pulled windshelds b4 it sucks lots of work... ahve 1 person inside the car and 1 person out side the car... i used like 3 guitar strings also i found it was alot ez'er when i got a small small nail/ peace of metal got it hot with the torch
and pushed that under it to make a hole... it just melts a place to get the string thru so you dont put an uneven psi on the winsheld and crack it

 

The last one was the best one....that's the one I'll create the high-res jpeg with...

 

it went up to 90 as that was the year of my bro's FC

 

This is one I have from a 90 Vert. Still un-peeled! = )))))

 

Ughhh, I want one so bad too. I have all original (almost mint) 83 GSL and the one of the 2 previous owners got the car tinted and there is no more sticker there. I love that sticker.

Somebody get to it and make these if you know how to

 

I wonder if there is a kind of tool made or that could be improvised that would allow you to continuously heat a small nail or something similar so that you could use the hot nail to work your way around the entire windshield? Maybe a modified soldering iron or something like that.

I'll probably be out there guitar stringing my windshield and the rear quarter windows this weekend if it's warm, I hear it goes better on hot days. Time to get rid of the brown carcasse. Suggestions welcome!

Ray

 

for reference thare are no bolts holding the window to the frame, just the adhesive. there is one 10mm bolt under the rear quarter triangle.