I've seen moonroofs, surfboard racks, hatch covers. Anybody? (Pics, please!)

 

5.5L washer fluid tank.

i was refilling my washer fluid, and i had dumped most of a 4L jug in there and i was thinking "damn i must have a leak or something!!" so i checked and found nothing, so i poured more and more in, eventually using the entire bottle and a bit of the next bottle. looked in my manual and found out these things have an optional 5.5L washer tank.

 

HAHA I ahd the exact soem prob! lol

 

my friends and i all have this cell phone type antenna on the top of the back hatch glass. No cell phones inside, but we all have the same mysterious holes on the passenger side of the stereo surround.........Mysterious.

 

those holes are from a CAR PHONE with a cord, there was one in my car before my grandfather gave it to me, the antenna at the back is for the phone.

 

My 86 had NO COMPARTMENTS!! Its weird, no back seat, it does have the rear fiberglass box, but were the lids would be is just blank flush covers under the carpet. YES its original. I'm selling the carpet (parting whole car) so if someones interested in a stealth stereo in stall this would be cool.

 

my car has the hooks for the hatch cover, i think someone threw the cover away in the car's previous life, too bad for me...

 

I have a red hatchback cover....offers?

 

Base, Luxury, and some early Sports did not get the compartments in 86.

And if you want another weird anti-option, you couldn't get automatic tranny 'verts in 88.

 

It was a Sport, I have'nt seen any other Rx-7's without the compartments yet, but I knew it was a anti-option (as in the bins would have been the "option") in 86.

 

Absolutey not true.
I bought a auto 88 Vert new.
It was the first Vert off the boat at the port in SC.

 

hmmmm... whats the VIN?

perhaps it was just no auto-s in CA, but everything I have for lit says that none were made until the 89 model year.

But the 88 model year was a very long production (7/87 through 12/88)

 

DIRECTIONAL TURBINE WHEELS!!
Thats right.... we all know the TII style turbine wheels... But I LOVE the fact that Mazda used 2 different directions, so the right side of the car would match the left side!!
Not like Ford Probes, where the wheels on one side rotates backwards than the ones on the other side.

My factory tape player in the GXL had an electronic spectrum analyzer, complete with pre-set EQ settings! Funny on a tape player, and not the CD player!!!

Hmm, what else...
Factory forged alloy spare on some TII's are pretty cool...
As for weird options? Completely useless back seat, and oh, that whole wankel thing is pretty strange!!!

 

the key hole light on my vert's door is preaty cool. I'm not sure how many models came with this feature but it sure makes finding the hole alot easier in the dark (wish my lady had one, hehe).

No tilt on airbag steering wheels in some cars?

Was there an option to get a different colored top for the vert? Maybe a tan color?

My vert came with a four bolt spare. But it looks identical to the original mazda one. Maybe it was from a base.

 

I can get back to you on that.
I still have the car, in storage, at a warehouse in FL.
I have a FL trip planned for September.

When the car was unloaded, the dealer didn't want it.
He was afraid he couldn't move it because of the stock market crash, and mini recession going on.
At that time there was no (known) reason not to get a auto.
I got the car for dealer cost. If memory serves me (I am getting older) it had a sticker of about $23K and I got the car for about $20K

 

No tilt wheel, no sunroof in my 91 (only 91 I have seen yet w/o sunroof!!!), no LSD, power everything, 1pot calipers, security system from factory. Weird combination right?

 

my 86 base had the phone dial alloys, cruise control, and am/fm/cassette as its only options. no bins, no ac, no sunroof. actually if you want wierd options they were going to offer the t2 in 2 levels, the loaded one that we got, and one without power windows, ps , the big radio, sunroof etc. thats why power steering is an option on an otherwise loaded car. they also were about to call it the gt, and in fact some must hve slipped out the door that way because the parts are available.

mike

 

where at in FL?

And I'm not sure of werid things in my 88 GXL... I havent really thought about it.

 

Man, I want that surf board rack! Where can I get one? I don't even skateboard...

Oh yeah. The tall arm rest

There was a post here a while back that had all kinds of scans from the Mazda brochures. I was reading it on my girlfriend's dialup. I am home now on my DSL and can't find the picture post. Anyone have the link for what I'm talking about? I don't even remember what to search for

 

i forgot about the tall armrest! you can still get those, pm me for the ##'s they are hard to look up

mike

 

Oh yeah, I thought of one. No arm rests ? That's what bothers me the most.. I'm used to arm rests.

 

Another Navy town; Jacksonville.

 

Ah I EAT THIS STUFF UP

- Exterior Hatch Handle
- 2 tone paint jobs
- Turbo II GXL seats (lumbar & 8x adjustable)
- Headlight squirters
- Areo A Mazdaseed front lip & sideskirts
- Convertible rear 6.5" subs (whaaa??)
- Glass Moonroofs (4 different manufacturers now)
- Hatch cover snaps in non hatch cover models (GTU-S).
- Mazdaspeed "flat" rear spoiler (a la 2nd gen eclipse)
- Engine heater
- 86-88 style cargo cover
- 89-91 style cargo cover
- 2+2 seats in the wrong models
- 8 different styles of logicon lights & surrounds
- the "gold" windshield glass in the 10th AEs
- 10th AE white 88 style Turbo II wheels
- 10th AE embroidered front nose braw
- 10th AE embroidered seats
- weird wheels not found on OEM cars
- 86 dealership installed turbos (USA models)
- Euro spec turn signal/running lights
- J-spec FTP lamps (vs USA lenses)
- candian spec stuff (like the USA saftey standards aren't enough)
- factory installed electric radiator fans
- weird dealership foglamps
- "tinted" vs "non tinted" 89+ round tail lights
- why mazda starts with square rear lights & goes round in the 2nd & 3rd gen cars
- bike rack, sky rack, luggage rack, etc..
- convertible trunk luggage racks

 

I was looking through a brochure for options, they had a ski rack attachment that went up the rear hatch glass, a rack made for roof mounting windsurfing boards, TONS of specially designed rack systems...

I got a few options

 

The strangest option I've seen so far is factory rear seats in a 10thAE.

One of the guys here has an 87 TII with the scooped steel hood.