LateApexFabrication

A customer of mine recently purchased this car and we are planning on bringing it back to life and its fire breathing goodness. a brief history on the car. This car was supposedly the FIRST Rx-7 in the states. Built into a race car and raced for awhile then changed ownership a few times. Then the car sat behind someones house for awhile. An old business associate of mine acquired the car and..............it sat. Now finally a good friend of mine purchased the car and a full restoration is in he works.

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craaaazzy

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your pics don't work

KansasCityREPU

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What's the VIN number say??? No VIN no proof of prominence. My lord, looking at the pictures there seems to be no original sheet metal. That thing has been hacked.

Fixed the images for you.





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craaaazzy

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were the rear fenders replaced? hard to tell from the old pics but it looks like they were molded originally. love that widebody.

LateApexFabrication

Got the car back from the blaster yesterday and it turned out pretty good. No real rust just lots of damage from racing.
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Jimbo II

Awesome!

Will follow this thread with interest.

LateApexFabrication

Bought a parts car for afew parts that were missing and this car has good rockers that will be going onto he race car. The rest of the parts are for sale. Ill list it in the classifieds [IMG][/IMG]

KansasCityREPU

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Here is a link to the early RX-7 vin numbers. The vin's of the first 1979s imported started at 5000

https://www.rx7club.com/1st-gen-non-...gistry-830345/

lx_machado

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Oooo nice!

Looks like a great project! Please keep us updated.

Frankenmazda

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I second that! Love widebodies!

DreamInRotary

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My three reactions to this angle:


Need more pics! Will follow this with great interest, love the IMSA widebodies.

LateApexFabrication

Made a bit of progress the last few days, stripped the donor car, cut out the rockers, got one fit and welded on the car.

Heres a pic of how the rockers looked before, pretty hammered




The new rockers being fit


And the almost finished product. Needs to be sanded and metal finished and the rear trimmed to fit the larger wheelhouse.

DreamInRotary

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Some good work going on there, will be nice to get it all painted up as well. I see the custom rear setup - must be for a bar to the rear diff? Look sweet man!

woodmv

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Nice work! That's a nice professional setup you have there - very good!! I wish my garage were that big and that I had a rotisserie in there (superjealous!).

LateApexFabrication

Thanks guys lots more to come, yes the rear suspension is pretty custom. It has a speedway quickchange rearend and a cool 3 link setup with a watts link.

thielepr

John Finger is my local Mazda delarler here in Greenville, SC. He got a few interisting cars in his collection (old mini copper with an RX-8 engine) and he just ran with Mazda on Thunderhill with the speedsource mazda 6

Supe

I'm already in love with this thing! Be very interested to see the rear suspension setup as its going back together.

Magnus Berglund

Any update on this?
/ Magnus