The opposite of the "I wrecked my car" threads.
02-03-05, 10:12 PM
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The opposite of the "I wrecked my car" threads.
With all the threads about kids wrecking their cars these days, I thought you guys might want to see a car being put back on the road.
Here's my car as bought...no engine or trans., ratty interior, but straight and plastic-free body:
Engine bay getting re-done:
Painted but no clear yet:
Cleared and awaiting reassembly:
Please ignore the Protege5 wheels; they are just for rolling the car around.
Here's my car as bought...no engine or trans., ratty interior, but straight and plastic-free body:
Engine bay getting re-done:
Painted but no clear yet:
Cleared and awaiting reassembly:
Please ignore the Protege5 wheels; they are just for rolling the car around.
02-03-05, 10:34 PM
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Good Stuff
You and TurboJeff must be cut from the same cloth... hehe
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The first picture looks like the RX-7 boneyard in Ottawa.
Is that a Canadian FD?
You and TurboJeff must be cut from the same cloth... hehe
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The first picture looks like the RX-7 boneyard in Ottawa.
Is that a Canadian FD?
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02-03-05, 10:36 PM
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Man that's AWESOME...you did a great job on that paint. It looks really good, can't wait to see the finished product. How much did you pay for that first pic up there? I love seeing threads like this!!
02-03-05, 10:48 PM
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very nice...nothing better than seeing a messed up FD brought back to life...keep us updated...i'd definitely like to see it completed...btw, where did you go to get this car? what's with all the FC's in the background...was it a rx-7 junkyard/graveyard?
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02-04-05, 09:57 AM
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Looks awesome, man! How much longer until she's back on the road?
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02-04-05, 12:26 PM
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I think the car may have been on Ebay before. It came from a place called RX7-Heaven which was in Memphis TN, then moved to Dexter, MO, and now they are back in Memphis again. I paid $3,000 for the car as it appears in the first picture, and I think by the time it's on the road and "done" I'll have about $9000 in it. I've never owned an FD before so I thought the best way to do it would be to rebuild an entire car so I'll know all about it. A new street-ported engine is getting delivered to me soon and I'm restoring the interior with new upholstery from leatherseats.com and door panels from another car that had 60k on it. For now, it's just going to get the stock front end becuase I'm not really into most of the bodykits out there, except the Mazdaspeed ones, which I don't want to pay for.
Thanks for all the support guys.
Thanks for all the support guys.
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Well... 4 Year later it's still not done. But there's been more stuff done to it.
I moved from Missouri to Kentucky, and work on the car has been slow, but the interior is in:
And I'm putting my suspension on (Tokicos and Eibachs):
I'm hoping to get it on the road, finally, this summer.
I moved from Missouri to Kentucky, and work on the car has been slow, but the interior is in:
And I'm putting my suspension on (Tokicos and Eibachs):
I'm hoping to get it on the road, finally, this summer.
