Third gen Values seem to have cooled down???
09-15-15, 03:51 PM
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Eats, Sleeps, Dreams Rotary
its pretty sad that my friday evenings consist of replacing/upgrading things. i absolutely love it though. got a new air compressor setup in there now along with some tunes. i got that poly coating on the floors. its awesome in there. now i am decorating the wall with rotary things. My wife got me some stuff for my 40th bday a couple weeks ago. she knows me well.
i cant stop playing with the ride height right now...completely obsessive.
that was one of the bummers with the car i got. Everything and i mean everything has been changed. its done. so now i may need to finally get a black one and do a single turbo conversion. i dont know. i cant imagine owning a stock one.
i cant stop playing with the ride height right now...completely obsessive.
that was one of the bummers with the car i got. Everything and i mean everything has been changed. its done. so now i may need to finally get a black one and do a single turbo conversion. i dont know. i cant imagine owning a stock one.
Matty,
No doubt it's super frustrating to find people to work on this car but at the same time half the fun of owning this car is working on it LOL.
The car is not only a great driving instructor but also an automotive shop instructor because most of us have to drive hours to find a shop to work on it so we are forced to fix it ourselves which in turn teaches us all sorts of things we never would of known about this car and cars in general. It's also so fun to modify that we can't leave it alone
The more we learn about it and the more times we fix it ourselves the more love we generate for the car. Sure we love the way it looks, sounds and drives but eventually we love everything about the car because we know everything about the car. All it's little quirky problems and solutions to those problems increase the bond
You can't have great joy with out great sadness and the FD provides plenty of both.
In other words you can choose the merry go round or the roller coaster. In the car world the FD is no doubt a roller coaster LOL
PS Currently prices are as high as they have ever been and will only go higher as the supply continues to dwindle so I believe the mechanic issue is already priced into the market.
No doubt it's super frustrating to find people to work on this car but at the same time half the fun of owning this car is working on it LOL.
The car is not only a great driving instructor but also an automotive shop instructor because most of us have to drive hours to find a shop to work on it so we are forced to fix it ourselves which in turn teaches us all sorts of things we never would of known about this car and cars in general. It's also so fun to modify that we can't leave it alone
The more we learn about it and the more times we fix it ourselves the more love we generate for the car. Sure we love the way it looks, sounds and drives but eventually we love everything about the car because we know everything about the car. All it's little quirky problems and solutions to those problems increase the bond
You can't have great joy with out great sadness and the FD provides plenty of both.
In other words you can choose the merry go round or the roller coaster. In the car world the FD is no doubt a roller coaster LOL
PS Currently prices are as high as they have ever been and will only go higher as the supply continues to dwindle so I believe the mechanic issue is already priced into the market.
09-15-15, 03:54 PM
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Eats, Sleeps, Dreams Rotary
Agree on investment for long term, but not on a car like this it's MHO.
We collect them for beauty, passion, track use, pride, etc., but not as an investment.
My money is sure (all is a gamble) to bring in more than this car.
How many people buy a product that loses value instantly driven out of the lot?
I don't see collectible cars or collections going public any time soon (being sarcastic).
The RX7 is not a GT3.
We collect them for beauty, passion, track use, pride, etc., but not as an investment.
My money is sure (all is a gamble) to bring in more than this car.
How many people buy a product that loses value instantly driven out of the lot?
I don't see collectible cars or collections going public any time soon (being sarcastic).
The RX7 is not a GT3.
09-15-15, 03:58 PM
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Hey, Chris. It's been a long long time since we talked. Not sure I understand everything you were saying to Natey, but, if someone was thinking of putting one of these away as an investment (and people are always doing this in reality for whatever reasons) for 20 years and you ask whether they'll be there then, it may be unintentionally a bot of live for today for tomorrow you may die. Anyone who makes long term investments has to assume they or their children or wife or parents would get the benefit if they died. Even if no one benefited, its hard not to want to plan for retirement. Not saying its a better investment than something else, but its not wrong to invest for 20 years.
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I am not Chris, I wish I had his wealth of knowledge and experience.
He tunes my car and fixes what I can't do at home.
BTW, I saw there the famous or infamous RX7, that Peter Farrel built for you.
The one you re-did the whole interior with Alcantara and all Autometer gauges.
09-16-15, 08:55 AM
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its pretty sad that my friday evenings consist of replacing/upgrading things. i absolutely love it though. got a new air compressor setup in there now along with some tunes. i got that poly coating on the floors. its awesome in there. now i am decorating the wall with rotary things. My wife got me some stuff for my 40th bday a couple weeks ago. she knows me well.
i cant stop playing with the ride height right now...completely obsessive.
that was one of the bummers with the car i got. Everything and i mean everything has been changed. its done. so now i may need to finally get a black one and do a single turbo conversion. i dont know. i cant imagine owning a stock one.
i cant stop playing with the ride height right now...completely obsessive.
that was one of the bummers with the car i got. Everything and i mean everything has been changed. its done. so now i may need to finally get a black one and do a single turbo conversion. i dont know. i cant imagine owning a stock one.
And you are right every FD nut needs at least two
09-16-15, 06:39 PM
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Eats, Sleeps, Dreams Rotary
I loved my 83 gsl. I started looking for a gslse recently but reality set in. That is, the cars are just slow. So now I may be looking for a turbo2 anniversary. I don't know. I am sure I will end up with another fd when all is said and done. We'll see what fritz is able to come up with. I am not in a rush.
09-16-15, 10:29 PM
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You will get the 16 to 28 year olds to whom the Fast & Furious films are like their age group's Bullitt. They will grow up to have jobs and kids and in 20 years time, they will show these films to their kids and say this was the hot thing when I was young.
When they get into their 40's, 50's and begin to be financially better off, they will seek out the hero cars of their youth, just as the baby boomers went after the Mustangs and Plymouths of their youth and the prices soared.
Gen X & Y will be the ones to go after the NSXs and Supras, RX7s, etc in another decade or so.
There is already that hint of 90's Japanese supercar nostalgia trickling into things like video games right now- I've played Forza Horizon. The Japanese nostalgic cars are put on a pedestal in that game, with engine swaps, etc. And we have the new Need For Speed game coming out in the last quarter of this year. And it has the BRZ, Supra, RX7 at the front of its advertising, with Rocket Bunny kits on them, deep dish wheels, etc. Cultural consciousness is beginning to be more accepting of the Japanese stuff. Its affordable. More so than a Ferrari, and easier to live with. Kids can buy them and have easy performance. In 20 years, those kids will want to collect a piece of youth by buying "My old NSX back again"
When they get into their 40's, 50's and begin to be financially better off, they will seek out the hero cars of their youth, just as the baby boomers went after the Mustangs and Plymouths of their youth and the prices soared.
Gen X & Y will be the ones to go after the NSXs and Supras, RX7s, etc in another decade or so.
There is already that hint of 90's Japanese supercar nostalgia trickling into things like video games right now- I've played Forza Horizon. The Japanese nostalgic cars are put on a pedestal in that game, with engine swaps, etc. And we have the new Need For Speed game coming out in the last quarter of this year. And it has the BRZ, Supra, RX7 at the front of its advertising, with Rocket Bunny kits on them, deep dish wheels, etc. Cultural consciousness is beginning to be more accepting of the Japanese stuff. Its affordable. More so than a Ferrari, and easier to live with. Kids can buy them and have easy performance. In 20 years, those kids will want to collect a piece of youth by buying "My old NSX back again"
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