Heres little information about me.
My first FC was an 87 Base model, I got it from my brother when I was 15. He had rear ended some lady and messed up the front, and he left for college so he couldnt fix it.


I had it painted blue the summer before my senior year of highschool.


It only had the two sets of wheels on the car for about a month, then I realized how stupid it was.
Anyway, I rear ended a girl who caused a four car accident on valentines day of my senior year. She told her insurance company I cause the accident, then I faxed them the police report which my car was not included on, and all the pictures I had. I only had to pay for her bumper, which she never had replaced. She totalled that black buick too.




After that I got a new bumper, painted it primer black, and fixed the hood in between the headlights and painted that primer black. It didnt look too bad. I then got some s5 tails for it, put some suede FD seats in and put a Black TurboII spoiler on. The car also had a bunch of suspension stuff, it was a blast.
Then I taraded it in and got a Volkswagen GTI, and planned not to mod it and just to use it as a reliable DD.
The idea to not mod it lasted a few months.
Heres waht it looks like now, and I'm not going to tell you about it sicne this is an FC thread.


Then in october of last year I tried to sell the VW to buy my Dream FC. I came pretty close, but I realized it was stupid to sell a reliable quick turbo car that gets near 30mpg city and decided to just buy a cheap FC and fix it up.

I bought this Gem in January of this year plannign to fix the rust in the floor.


It's a great runner, but I uncovered a lot more rust than I anticipated it it was going to be money to fix it right. I still have that POS and am parting it.

I started looking for another FC, found a few that were too expensive and some that were too far away. I really wanted a TII, but I found a Local member here thinking of selling a GTUs. I jumped and went to check it out. The guy is really cool and he has 3 other RX-7's including a Black On Black GTUs.
The red one I was looking at didnt run right, but I wanted it. I bought it, and brought it home and checked the compression. The rear rotor has no compression and I'm thinking it threw a seal.

I just used some cleaner wax and then waxed it today. The paint was very faded, and is still pretty dirty. The towel I was using was just about black when I was done. It really needs to be buffed, and polished.
I snapped some quick crappy pics as it was gettign dark when I finished.
I'll take more later, I promise.


The datestamp on these pictures is wrong, I didnt set the date on my camera yet.

Hope you all enjoy, I have to go coook dinner now.

-Ian

 

What lip is that one the first FC when you got it painted?

And that gti looks pretty cool. Nice 'timeline'

 

That lips is off of an early 90's Mazda 626. I did a writeup back in the day.

Here it is.
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...hlight=626+lip

 

Man, I wish I had the money to do that too. There are tons of FCs out there just waiting to be sparked back to life!

 

nice find on the new car