Hello! My name is Josh and my grandpa just gave me his 1984 RX-7 GSL! He was the original owner, put only 58k miles on it, then parked it in the garage for the past 18 years. The body is in GREAT shape, not a spec of rust! A bit of paint flaking off the front bumper, and mice got into the interior, but after some vacuuming it's cleaned up nicely.

Photo: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/92890/RX-7/First%20Photo.jpg
This is before we washed her up, so she's still a bit dusty and dirty.

Right now she's parked in my friend's garage getting fixed up. The engine is carbon locked to hell, but I'm in the process of doing the MMO treatment to hopefully get her going again. We already flushed the coolant (which was surprisingly clean!) and changed the oil (also in pretty good shape), once we get the engine spinning freely we'll lift the rear end and flush the gas tank. I've got new transmission + diff oil on order, as well as new brake calipers+pads+rotors all around and rebuild kits for the brake master and clutch master+slave cylinders.

Because she's in such good shape, I don't plan on doing much in the way of modifications. I'll probably pick up the Racing Beat exhaust, because the original one is pretty beat up, as well as new struts and maybe springs all around.

 

Josh,

It's good to see another "low" mileage FB get passed down to someone who appreciates it! I'm in the same boat but I'm an old man just like Pops now! I'm thinking that by the time "Boompah" is ready to pass on the 1985 GSL RX-7 he's had since new, my own boy will be old enough to simply get it outright....at least that's the hope.

Thanks for taking the time to register and welcome aboard to RX-7 Club! The more 1stgen folk who join, the better, sez I!

Mario III

 

That sure is a nice FB! I wish mine was in that good of shape when I got it! Welcome to the forums!

 

Very impressive that the mileage is that low

 

18 years, good god you are going to have fun getting that running again. It will be worth it anyhow, these cars are good fun.

 

I am also a new and excited owner of an fb! I just picked it up last night for 150 bucks! No motor, but ill be putting a 302 in it

 

That reminds me of my old GSLSE those things were a blast to drive

 

wow nice mileage, good luck getting it running again. good to see another fellow FB owner :]

 

I usually hate hand-me down stuff, but I wouldn't mind an fb hand-me down at all.