Here is my latest find up here in Canada, Its a 1971 Mazda R100 circuit car , After searching for 2 years for a shell that I could turn into a circuit car ( As wanted to find a shell so was not destroying another R100 ) When I was told of this one which happened to be 10 miles from my house Found out it had been sitting in a shed for 12 years , Every thing there except motor and box , So rang the guy ,Well he was a little suprised to get a phone call about the car and said to give him a few days , rang back next week and asked what he wanted for it , He responded " It has sat in my shed for the last 10 years and well hell will freeze over before I sell it cheap " Any way after a few more talks with him I went to see the car , After digging through the shed we found the R100 in the back , Trying not to show my excitement as I looked at her and asked how much ?
$1500 I almost fell over ............... Raced to the nearest atm and gave him the cash , One week later I picker her up ,
Its got a full cage , coil over front suspension adjustable camber tops some sort of moded front brakes with cooling tubes from front bumper piped into the back of disk , rx4 oil cooler and large rad , full wiring ( was running a 12a back in the day ) locked diff with extended length leafs re tensioned , so sits really nice , running 13''x9''x240 slicks all round , fibre glass flares molded off a Mazda factory spa race car , custom one piece front , fully striped interior lexan side windows custom race dash , standard fuel tank with massive fuel pump running into a serge tank , custom rear wing .
Every thing ready for motor and box ,
Im going to be running a 10a bridge pp , 48 ida custom intake manofold lightned and re balanced rotors and rotating assembly , to a raceing beat 13b lightned fly wheel clutch and pressure plate , prob a rx4 bell houseing and still looking for a box .
want a factory close ratio 4 speed race box , but if i cant find one will look at a rx8 box
Looking at getting all lexan front and rear wind sheilds from Australia for it
Hope to have it all up and running buy next summer
thes shed I found her in had to cut down a tree so we could open the doors





On the truck on her way home

 

My goodness.... That sht is definitely a sweet find! Keep us updated. But why the 10a? Parts are even harder for that motor to find.

 

Parts are hard to find yes , Im the owner of 5 10a engines and have a whole lot of spares for 10a's so things should not be to bad .Also as im originaly from New Zealand/Australia im I know where to find these parts ;o)
Every one always gets R100's and drops in 12a's and 13b's the 10a is to be different , Im aiming to get 180+hp out of it and as they are rated as 1 litre I should be able to get into a lower rated race class prob the 1600cc class insteard of the 2L class with a 12a setup , With the 10a you can pull mad revs too hope to get 13,000rmp out of mine

 

........... I hate you.................... I hate you................ Oh who am I kidding!! AWESOME FIND!!!! You are my hero, I have always wanted ANY rotary car earlier than my 7. No luck thus far though.... there just doesnt seem to be any for sale anywhere in the tri-state area.....


Does it have any rust anywhere? And does that guy have any other rotary treasures in that garage? I see a diff and some rims in there....

 

The shell is mint only really minor surface rust and a small dent in drivers door other than that it just needs a rub back and a coat of fresh paint , which it will be getting very soon , will keep every one updated with more pictures on my progress

 

Nice find! That thing is ****.

 

Man I am so jealous, I own an R100 but that beauty is hidden treasure
I might be convinced to make some 10A ceramic seals if you are interested. Might be a bit down the road but I could be persuaded Would also depend on whether we have the proper radius wheels for a 6mm seal.
Pm me if you want to talk more about it.

 

 

sweet!!!!!!!!

 

Agreed. Awesome find. Would be great to find some old pics of her racing on the track and know her history. Does the car have any significant racing lineage to your knowledge?

 

DANGGGGG!!! That has to be the greatest (of all time) find ever in the history of old school Mazda rotary cars. Thanks for the info! Can't wait to see and hear more about the restoration of this beauty.

 

man how did u know they made a r100 like this

 

that is a nice find bro veryn nice you lucky bastard LOL

 

Man, what an awesome find.

 

Good to see another classic found thats going to be brought back to its full potential.

 

Damn man, what a great find haha. Wish we had stuff like that happen around here.

 

Purrrty!

 

My father used to race with the original owner/builder of the car, his name is Toivo. Car used to be solid bright red. I have a series of photos of that car during a pit stop running the six hour enduro in Portland OR back in the eighties. Send me a pm and I will send them to you.

 

Toivo built this beauty? He is a very good man, I recently sponsored him with a special deal on some ceramic apex seals. I will have to check back with him on the seals anyhow so this will be something else we can talk about

Definetly send me the pics! I'll drop you a pm with my e address.
Regards, Sven

 

wow....nice find man....keep posted on it...plans sound good.

 

I may have pics of this car too, from portland when it was red and from Westwood during an Atlantice weekend back in 1990. I hope I can still find the pictures!!!!

That car was unique in 1990!!!!!

Joe

 

we all want to see the pics.. dont be so stingy! sweet find

 

What a great find!!

 

oh and ill offer you 2k for it

 

I talked to Toivo today, he is going to send me some more pics of the car at the track. I'll post when I have them.