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heres a better photo, if you want me to take off the center horn cover and get a picture lmk, i think maybe the red on those bolts around the horn were painted by the previous owner
heres a better photo, if you want me to take off the center horn cover and get a picture lmk, i think maybe the red on those bolts around the horn were painted by the previous owner
Those are painted for sure. Looks like a clean car otherwise, very much like mine, minus the 99 spec bumper. If you dont' mind me asking, who did you go through for importing, and what was the cost landed?
Attached are photos of my grade 4 Bathurst X from USS Nagoya. The previous owner already tastefully upgraded to 99 spec front bumper, wing & tail lights as well as some information i can contribute on the bathurst X spec taken from the book “I love FD3S RX-7”
@RotaryNoob420 Can you take a picture of the page thats partially showing on the left in the bottom picture?
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Those are painted for sure. Looks like a clean car otherwise, very much like mine, minus the 99 spec bumper. If you dont' mind me asking, who did you go through for importing, and what was the cost landed?
I had a friend bid on it for me, i won it during the first covid lockdown, lots of cars were selling cheap before everything shot up. $13,500 shipped, originally i was buying the car to flip but i couldnt let it go. Has some little issues though, headlights wont pop up, tach was broken, idle was weird even after replacing plugs & wires, & compression was a tad low. In the process of a streetport rebuild/borg warner & overhauling everything.
sick! But technically its not period correct, rite? That decal was just on the 96 models?
The book mentions the 95's have unique badging, I don't imagine Mazda would have changed the decals from one year to the next on the B-X. The only differences are I think the ones that are already known. Black cars had one set of decals, and white had another. Everything I've looked at points to BB 95's having that decal. So it should be period correct, unless some marketing material proves otherwise, but I can't imagine Mazda would redesign the logos after 95 and then use the same ones for the remaining B-X model years.
The book mentions the 95's have unique badging, I don't imagine Mazda would have changed the decals from one year to the next on the B-X. The only differences are I think the ones that are already known. Black cars had one set of decals, and white had another. Everything I've looked at points to BB 95's having that decal. So it should be period correct, unless some marketing material proves otherwise, but I can't imagine Mazda would redesign the logos after 95 and then use the same ones for the remaining B-X model years.
so you have seen a BB 95 B-X with that decal? I wish we could see a bb 95 b-x and what decal it has from factory. Because id rather have the all red b-x decal that comes on the CW cars, but i dont want it to be incorrect period wise lol
Interesting find but Im going to end up making my own, the burgundy color decal shown on the CW in the book.
Pretty sure that's the one he linked you. If you don't mind not having the correct decal for the car (like if you personally like the CW decal more) then more power to you. Just wanted to clarify.
Pretty sure that's the one he linked you. If you don't mind not having the correct decal for the car (like if you personally like the CW decal more) then more power to you. Just wanted to clarify.
Well it could be wrong both way, maybe the 777 95 bx’s only had that burgundy decal with cw & bb’s or maybe in 95 they were using that red & gold decal.. no evidence proving either unfortunately… can we reach out to mazda or something lol
@SwappedNA Sorry for being late to the party on this, but I did a grade search on your car using Mazda Japan's tool and got the following results confirming it is indeed a Type R Bathurst X, one of 777 limited - see below (translated from Japanese):
@SwappedNA Sorry for being late to the party on this, but I did a grade search on your car using Mazda Japan's tool and got the following results confirming it is indeed a Type R Bathurst X, one of 777 limited - see below (translated from Japanese):
I stumbled across that tool myself not long after I made this thread I want to say. I appreciate you linking it though.
The "Base:: Type R Bathurst" puzzles me though. I think I have indeed seen reference to a 1995 Type R Bathurst, elsewhere, but otherwise have not confirmed its existence. The parts manual seems to indicate the BX was based on the base Type RB and makes no mention , that I can find,of a Type R Bathurst.
There is also a mysterious reference to a Type RM.
The "Base:: Type R Bathurst" puzzles me though. I think I have indeed seen reference to a 1995 Type R Bathurst, elsewhere, but otherwise have not confirmed its existence. The parts manual seems to indicate the BX was based on the base Type RB and makes no mention , that I can find,of a Type R Bathurst.
There is also a mysterious reference to a Type RM.
(RM might be a winterized version.)
There is the July 1995 model Type R Bathurst X with 777 limited edition - the brochure is shown directly above. This is the one referenced in the Spirit R brochure and the Brian Long book. This was a 255PS model.
Then there is a December 1996 Type RB Bathurst X with 700 limited edition - the brochure was posted by Akomix on page 1 of this thread. Unlike the version V and version VI Type RB, it was a manual transmission model, not automatic and had the top power rating at the time, 265PS. This is also shown in the Spirit R brochure.
They are similar visually and in terms of features. But you will notice that the B pillar decal is slightly different between the two.
The Type R Bathurst X is a version 3 based car so chassis number starts with FD3S-3xxxxx
The Type RB Bathurst X is a version 4 based car so chassis number started with FD3S-4xxxxx
as well as some information i can contribute on the bathurst X spec taken from the book “I love FD3S RX-7”
