Hey Guys,


I originally posted this in the old school rotary & other forum but it may not see a lot of traffic so here goes.

For fun, I picked up this vintage Mazda gas cap from Thailand, apparently NOS and from a motorcycle. Now I'm pretty sure Mazda did not make any two wheel vehicles and especially motorcycles (I learned they did make a trike in the 1930s called the Mazda Go) but the construction is not really robust enough for automotive purposes. Maybe a Mazda scooter??? Or the micro cars like the Mazda R360????

Any ideas out there or actual sightings?


Thanks!

 

I hope you find out what it is. My local dealership has 5 or 6 of those still in their bags sitting in a box and isn't really sure what they are for. (Although, they had some RX-3 badges in the same box. I picked one of those up for fun.)

To me, with the tabs on the back, they look more like radiator caps than gas caps.

 

yeah they look like radiator caps. you said your dealer has some? I wouldnt mind ordering a vintage one and using it on my SA

 

They wont make a very good rad cap since there is no spring and valve to relieve pressure.

 

oh, I can make it work

 

Ok, it is a gas cap that fits everything from the R360 to Cosmo Sport to probably some of the RX-3,4,5 from the early 70s. And still available for $25:

http://www.irex-jp.com/catalog/produ...roducts_id/314


Mystery solved!

 

If that local dealership still has those would you mind grabbing two for me? I'll pick it up from you at deals gap this year.

 

jim_chung: Nice researching to figure out what it was, and a nice find.

Buggy: I'll see what I can find out from him. Last time I was by was in in August (it's actually a dealership in a small town about 45 minutes away from me, but they are much better to deal with than the city dealerships) and he asked me to check out a box of old parts he had because he couldn't figure out anybody else who would know what to do with them. There was a bunch of random parts like those above, some filters and plugs as I recall, and a number of badges. (Multiple RX-3 badges, I picked up a pair for fun. Apparently one of two Mazdaspeed trunk badges left in the country, so we picked that up as a spare for the Protege.) I actually had somebody else send me a message about them as well, so let me give him a call early in the week, see what he still has, and what he wants for them. I don't mind bringing a few parts to DGRR.

 

Suzuki made a rotary motorcycle

http://www.suzukicycles.org/RE5/RE5-Rotary.shtml