Today’s seller Nice prize or no dice RX-7 wants to clean up a car collection, and this Mazda has to go. Let’s see if that collectorThe loss could be someone else’s gain.
Life is full of small risks. One such gamble is the less and less chance that the tuna sushi you are going to eat is insanely full parasitic worms. Then there is the option to buy yesterday 1999 Porsche Boxster for only $ 3,500. Yep, that’s a super cheap price for any Boxster that isn’t on fire or full of the aforementioned sushi worms.
The risk may be real, but a cheap Porsche is a cheap Porsche, and any threat of future financial disaster is certainly masked by the pull that plagues an available Boxster. That siren song prompted 67 percent of you to reward the cheap Porsche with a nice price. Now, back to that sushi. I recommend a lot of wasabi.
Sushi and his sibling’s sashimi are delicacies that originated in Japan. Another wonderful invention of the island nation is Mazda’s RX-7. That small sports car debuted in the late 1970s and carried its Wankel engine and sporty pretensions through three generations and nearly a quarter of a century of production.
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This Mazda RX-7 from 1979 comes from the first generation and appears to be a real time capsule of a car, looking just like when it rolled off the boat. Heck, I’d even expect every single one of the coins in the console to have gotten a pre-Reagan administration to seal the experience agreement.
The car is said to be part of a collection, but apparently not the collector’s pride and “bury me in it” joy. It is now offered with just 68,264 miles below its beltline.
For those of you born after the fact, the original RX-7 – sometimes referred to as the “SA” for its internal code – fluctuated a 100-horsepower edition of Mazda’s 1146cc two-rotor 12A Wankel engine. In this car, that’s coupled to a five-speed stick. As is the case with all first generation cars, power is being sent back to a simple coil-sprung rear axle.
The car is painted in what looks like factory silver, and that is combined with a black vinyl cabin and cool Cromodora-style alloy wheels. It looks pretty neat, although there are few boogers on the body. Notably, there is some small crumbling on the front bumper and what appears to be a small but obvious scratch on the hood next to one of the pop-up headlights. The only other obvious aesthetic issue is a dealer plaque on the back.
The ad states that the interior “looks like it just rolled out of the dealer,” and the photos confirm that claim. Everything looks like new, right down to the crack-free dashboard and the factory Clarion stereo.
The advertisement does not address the mechanical condition of the car, not even the offergive us a look under the hood. As we all know, Mazda’s early rotaries had problems with them apex seals. Nowadays that’s less of a problem with modern spare parts, but updating does require pulling and disassembling the engine completely.
There is also no word on consumables such as the tires. By the way, that’s 185 / 70R13’s have a full five inch sidewall covering nearly half their total diameter. If that’s not a legacy, I don’t know what it is.
Perhaps less of a throwback is Mazda’s $ 9,999 price tag. That is half of what the car costs new. It would still be difficult to find another one in as good as new condition as this one appears to be.
What do you think is this clean and clean RX-7 that’s worth $ 9,999? Or does this old school rotary need a new spin on that price?
You decide!
Reno, Nevada, Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears.
H / T to Noah Silverman for hookup!
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