I've worked on a handful of early rhd fd's, they are ridden hard and put away wet... Yeah alot of Japanese cars are low mileage, but with the way things are in Japan with rx7 owners, alot of those low miles are track miles...After they have been tracked every weekend for 15 years, they rattle, squeak, and creak... All the bushings are pretty much done in the back end and the drivelines are tired..
I worked on an Auction car that was being sent to Hong kong, it was a newer FD, about 98 so, on the hoist is looked like someone took a sledge hammer to the underneath..Top grade auction car though, beautiful car as long as you only looked at the top side..
I think the auction grade is misleading, it can be top grade on auction, but most of them are still piles compared to cars on the private sale lots over there...Watch out for cars that are tarted up with aftermarket parts, the bling is there to distract from the frame rust/buckleling... Japan has its crooks to and they love the car/parts auction sites...
I think in the end, you would end up spending the same amount of money if you just went and found a decent Lhd FD that you could test drive and inspect before hand, instead of buying a rhd basket case and fixing all the hidden damage, and worn out ****..
We keep cars longer here so we tend to fix the little things that wear over time, the Japanese dont, they know its gonna be expensive to fix the whole car come inspection time when the car gets a little older so they beat on it, then sell it...
No different than my Mother in laws Suzuki wagon R, she was told on the first inspection that on the second inspection it would need more parts replace than the car was worth, so she drove the car for just over another year, and did nothing to it for that year, no oil changes, maintenance, nada...About a week before inspection, it went to auction and she bought a new car..Some lucky foriegner bought that car......