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Hello RX7club members, my name's Daniel, and I reside in British Columbia, Canada, where the women wear yoga pants, and I can barely afford to fill my tank with gas. :P

For the last, 3 or 4 months, I've been slowly gaining my passion back for cars. When I was in high school, I used to dream about muscle cars, read about them all the time, would go to car shows, was on the school drag racing team. Unfortunately, I had a terrible automotive teacher, that sort of ruined my passion for cars. Granted, I still loved them, and always enjoyed seeing nice cars around, but I wasn't passionately thirsty for more knowledge about them. Driving has always been something important to me, nothing relaxes me better than being on the Highway heading in the direction of all those places where there are less cold grey buildings, and more tall beautiful trees.

My first car, and I'm sure you will all be a bit jealous of this, was and is a 2003 Pontiac Sunfire, sedan. Pretty cool right? Not exactly the most reliable car, certainly not very fast, it looks alright, but I dislike how bad my engine is, as far as burning through oil like crazy.

So I run into an old friend of mine from when we were kids, and in high school. We had lost touch, even though we were only living about 4 blocks away from each other. I saw a girl driving a Supra when I was walking into a Walmart one day, so I slowed down my pace so I could talk to her. Girl driving a Supra? Come on, doesn't get any better than that, unless she plays video games too. So I turn around to ask her what year it is, and there is my buddy, so we hang out a few days later, and I get to drool over his Supra, and talk to him about his R32 GTR, which is one of my dream cars and definitely the first to add to my garage if I win the lottery or move up in the world.

My passion for cars feels like it is coming back, a flickering inside me, a flame struggling for oxygen. Then, he takes me for a spin in his Skyline... Sadly, he had decided to sell it, but still, it is one of the most amazing cars I have ever sat and gone for a ride in. I can barely find words to describe how impressed I was... I've never wanted a woman as much as I wanted his car.

The flame ignites. I start searching for cars for sale, just to see what is out there, but I am living on my own, and with the bills and rent, and it being right after Christmas, and my hours at work are reduced, I can't afford anything that I would like to have. We meet for coffee one night and he tells me he saw a Supra for $1200, MKIII, and if he can get it for $1000 or less, he'll buy it for me as he is selling his daily driver civic and then I can just pay him off as I go, because I have been looking at civics with GSR motors but they aren't really exciting me.

No reply from the person with the Supra, another month or two goes by, and haven't found anything for a decent, or in my case I really needed an incredible price. I work at an automotive parts and service facility, not naming which one exactly, but one day a customer comes in and is asking me some questions. He tells me he wants to paint his Rx7 black, which will of course look awesome. I tell him that my friend, who just sold his Skyline after purchasing a second Supra, had it painted for an excellent price and the guy did an awesome job. I get this customers name and number, and pass it along. No contact from the painter, he must be busy, but the customer comes in a few more times. Then about a week ago, not even, he tells me he is going to scrap his first RX7, cause he's done with it and doesn't want it around any more. He has been using it for parts, albeit not that many. I suggest parting it out or selling it on Craigslist instead but, he says he doesn't want to spend the time doing that, then proceeds to tell me I can have it if I want, at what first sounds like free, but I would pay him something anyway.

So now, I'm all excited about acquiring this 1986 Mazda RX7 NA. I don't know much about the RX7's, I know the basical principal of how the engines work, I know that they look amazing, and they rev very high. I tell my friend and he can't believe it, he is excited too, and tells me it would be a perfect project car, which I also agree it would be, so I decide to take it. Sunday, I borrow the work truck, I buy a reciever and ball for it, rent a U-Haul trailer and head out to Chilliwack to get it. I get there and it is red, underneath a lot of green, mossy like substance. None of the glass around the vehicle is broken, and I'm already aware it's missing a fuel pump, it has 3/4 of the original alloys on it(and 4th we took off and swapped for the doughnut tire so it would be easier to push it onto the trailer). The instrument cluster is missing but at this point, I don't care. I drive it back to where I live, my first time driving a truck with a trailer behind, and I would say it went fairly well! I drop the car off where I'm parking it for now, swing by work to tell them I will keep the truck overnight and return the trailer in the morning, then go back to where the car is parked so I can give it a wash, even though it's 10pm. I find a hose, only long enough to do half the car because the longer hose does not fit my detailing sprayer. I start, and can't believe how this green stuff is coming off. My front windshield, beautifully smooth. My hood? Now much clearer, half of it still grimey, the other spotless(but in need of a high definition cleanser to remove anything stuck on it as it appears it has some wax or polish on it). I go home, go to work the next day, then return later that day after getting the key for the car(because he forgot to give it to me when I picked it up) and the transfer papers. I go back to where it's parked, after 10pm, and I'm there until 2am cleaning my car, this was last night(Monday night).

I call around for a fuel pump, and an instrument cluster. He had said the other day when I was picking it up, that he has some other stuff, like the back seats which he had pulled out of it, and a spare engine. So he is giving me a spare engine along with the car, and he will give me the instrument cluster back, I guess he doesn't need it. I don't want to say what I got the car for, but it was a VERY good deal. It does need love and it will be a project, but I'm more than just excited to be starting something like this. I am in love again, and maybe I'll be able to cruise with my friend in the summer, if I can get it road worthy in that time.

I was originally searching for a previous answer in the forums to the question of, would 255/35/18's(with the correct bolt pattern for my 4 bolt rx7) fit or would that not be a good size to have/would it rub when I turn?) and I do know it would put my speedometer off, but only by a little. Then I saw the post, "Grumpy Old Bitch" I believe it was. A guy, living in B.C., that basically got his car in the same sort of situation I did. Not to mention, same generation of RX7 and both of us got smoking deals.

I am excited to learn about these wicked cars, possibly work on the engine myself, and make this car something that I'd be proud to drive around in.

If you read all of this, give yourself a pat on the back, really... I don't think I'll even read this again to proof read. :P Here are a couple pics. More on my phone which I will get later, of it after it's fully clean(however seals are green still in some spots and I need a good brush to get into those places but it was just a wash of the body the other night, it was dark out both nights and I have very little light so I was using a LED work light.

misterstyx69

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I am in Ontario,
..Where overweight women wear Leopard printed Yoga pants...when they walk it looks like two Cheetahs fighting over a Dead seagull!
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