My old dance teacher once called my gf's FC an integra.

 

I was driving the vert last night, and at a stoplight a kid in a mid 2000's Mercedes pulls up beside me, takes a look at the 7 and says "Nice Ferrari!" ...........................

 

the ****? there is pretty much no similarities to be drawn between the two cars

 

Funny thing about it is that she was born and raised in Japan and has only lived here for about 10 years.

Man law for my dance instructor:

 

the first gen integras SORTA look like FCs, but not really...

 

^ only in the sense that they have pop up headlights

 

There's an old guy around where I live with a beautiful red s5 convertible. It's pristine, original shiny shiny paint, nice leather interior with no cracks. I remember him every time I see him, but it never fails that he forgets me. He is pretty old after all, and I guess I don't give him much reason to remember me. Anyway, I saw his vert parked at the gas station as I pulled in to get gas and beer. There he is, just standing at the counter not buying anything, obviously waiting for something to happen and / or someone to talk to. So in passing (on the way to beer) I say "That's a beautiful RX-7, I fall in love with it every time I see that thing." After grabbing beer, I walk up to pay for it and he starts a little conversation. It went something like this:

OG: You know the great things about the RX-7s are?
Me: What's that?
OG: How FAST they are!
Me: Yea, they sure can be! I've had a few myself, they su-
OG: (interrupting) You know in the original owners manual they guarantee it'll go 140!
Me: Yea, I guess they can get up there....
OG: You know mine used to be a turbo
Me: Nice!
OG: Yea, I had to remove the turbo package because I had A/C installed and you can't run A/C with the turbochargers in there... I've still got the hood and all...
Me:
OG: There's not much difference between the turbo and the non-turbo anyways
Me: You plan on selling it?
OG: Only if you've got $20,000, that's the last one they ever made right there, and they only ever made 300 of those convertible models.
Me: Man, you're lucky.... have a nice night!

The guy was clueless, a couple of times before he claimed that he had sent the whole car back to japan to rebuild the motor and that Mazda had wanted to keep it. All the while claiming to be the original owner...... it wasn't even worth correcting him.

 

^ I'm not gonna lie that story made me laugh.

 

I always wondered, do the people telling stories or "facts" that are this out there, do they really believe they are true? I mean come on. There's no way, either every person like this are just so cracked out or real life trolls, there's just no way someone can believe any of that.

My contribution: My car got rear ended the other day and the ambulance came to check everyone out, the lady in the ambulance asked:

ambulance lady: "so what is that like a 5 seater or something"
me: "uhhh no, it's just a two seater"
lady: "so you and the passenger, and two more?"
me: "haha no, just the driver and one passenger"
lady: "what's in the back?!"
me: "uhh some storage bins"
lady: "ohhhh I see" *giving me an "ok righttttt" look, I guess she forgot how many seats I had since I had a concussion or something

not to funny but it was laughable at the time

 

^ Sorry to hear about the accident.. concussions are no joke, that's how Billy Mays died at first. Then it turned out it was heart disease due to cocaine use... Hope I don't have heart disease! Heart disease is no joke!

Poor Billy Mays.

 

1st Gen Integras look more like Ae86s to me. That was the only reason I had one, That and I couldnt find a 7 to save my life cheap back in the day the lowest FC I would find then was 2 grand plus...

 

Ha! Great!

 

Again, only in the sense that they have pop up lights.

 

Really? I don't find that unreasonable at all. In fact, I find it extremely likely.

 

+1 ^ very likely

ill never forget the time i was looking for something in my FC in my schools parking lot, a middle aged lady walks by and stops behind my car, she stares at the back (where the emblems are still located) for like 5 minutes then looks up at me and asks me if its a honda

seriously? i could understand if i debadged the car or something, or if she saw it from the front, or from like 30 yards away, but she was like 6 feet from the car, looking at the back where it says in large letters MAZDA and RX7

 

First One i got From some chic that said "oh my dad said something like that those kinds of engines are shaped like a triangle".. I replied" something like that"

 

Last week I went to just tires in Fairfax (Far-fax) the tech comes outside and stands in front of my white GXL and starts looking around for a couple minutes, obviously confused. I see my key in his had so I ask him:

Me: White Mazda Rx-7?
Tech: Yes!
Me: Right there! (pointing to the car in front of him)
Tech: OOOhhhh………. I thought that was a Honda.
Me: No! ::PokerFace::
Tech: You don’t think it looks like a Honda Prelude?
Me: NO!

 

Should have been all over her, it took me months to get the concept of front wheel drive versus rear wheel drive to some of the girls I've dated. At least she had some kinda idea of something triangle shaped being involved with an rx7. At least my girl I'm with now knew when she saw my engine that something didn't look right about my motor.

I used to get nice supra ALL the time when the exterior was stock, now that I have a kit on it everyone seems to know its an rx7, even with it debadged. :-/

 

ok so a couple of months ago me and my friends had a small meet in a parking lot, i was parked between my friends firebird and my friends Fiero. A guy who we havent seen in awhile shows up and...

guy: hey, having a car show guys?
me: always lol
guy: oh man! whos NSX is that?
me: where?
guy: (points to my car)
me: what?! thats a rx7 bro....
guy: oh shi....t my bad, its got that rotary engine right?
me: yea....
guy: oh nice keep it old school aight!

wasnt sure how to take it, my friends said it should be a nice thing to be call a NSX >

 

^ Technically he called your car a Honda...

 

I would take it as a compliment if someone called my car an NS-X. I would reply something along the lines of, "I know it may drive like Aryton Senna was involved with the developement, but this is an FC RX-7. 1st Gen drivers were the development process with this one."

 

Washing my Red FC Vert out in the driveway a few weeks ago and a couple of teenage kids in mommy's Lexus drive by with the windows down and radio a bit overstretched. One yells out "I hate Corvettes"! Gave me a smile as I kept on working...

 

^ Did they think your car was a corvette, or was it a compliment?

 

It'a Porsche and it's hilarious and some of us can spell and put sentences together without thinkin'...others? not so sure.

 

Well, seeing as that is a run on sentence, you must be in the "not so sure" crowd. Lol