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Mazdas first production car on ebay!

Old Dec 16, 2003 | 01:39 PM
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Mazdas first production car on ebay!

Check this auction on ebay. It is a 1960 Mazda R360 Coupe. It was the first Mada production car! It featured a 360cc V2 aircooled motor good for about 16Hp and was available with an automatic tranny (very rare for an early Japanese car of this displacemant). They were built from 1960-1964.
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length 9feet 9 inches
wheel base 69 inches
weight 838 pounds
Maximum speed 53 mph
fuel consumption about 60 mpg
fuel tank 4 gallons
brakes 4 wheel drums with alfin cooling
suspension- independent with rubber blocks (instead of springs)
WOW what a find!

check out aution # 2449017684
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Old Dec 16, 2003 | 03:04 PM
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Have you ever seen a Subaru 360? I got to ride in one once. I had to promise the owner that I'd give him a ride in my rotary powered vehicle.
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Old Dec 16, 2003 | 04:14 PM
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hmm, that thing looks a llot like a subaru 360. Pretty neat piece of history.
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Old Dec 17, 2003 | 12:09 AM
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my parent's neighbor has a subaru 360. cool little clown car. i was thinking about making an offer and bring it home in the bed of my REPU but new parts are not available. officially the 360 was never imported by subaru. a guy imported a bunch of them and sold them on his lot. very slow seller. towards the end of the run he was trying to get rid of them 3 for $6000!!!!!!!
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Old Dec 17, 2003 | 06:01 AM
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I bet a 360 would do better powerwise if it were upgraded to 654.
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Old Dec 23, 2003 | 05:54 PM
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Wow, that is a cool little car!
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