... so a dealer has held this car for nearly 12 months

If your friend's S3 is nice, clean and stock, I could be interested. Where is he now?

 

Guys thanks for your comments much appreciated .

cheers
michael

 

I suspect the car has had a respray and may have been in a bingle , hence the time lapse between manufacture date and actual registered date , i am tryng to locate the original owner and speak to them .

The dealer is a nice guy but i know for a fact he loves to make a huge profit on resales he probably picked the car up for $ 37,000.

My friend lives in Melbourne but hes coming up to retire here on the Goldcoast around April , the car is original /stock and not used much as he has 5 other toys including WRX STI .

cheers
michael

 

Michael, check the service books, it'll tell you everything you need to know.

 

Better yet, use the service book to find out where it was serviced and call them. Not only will they be able to give you more detail on what's gone wrong, they should remember the car itself. When you service 323's all day, rx-7's tend to be memorable

 

I have a 00 RZ Limited for sale in NZ.

1 of 175 ever built and has the Carbon Recaro racing seats make me an offer cause i'm keen to get rid of it.

 

Yes... very tasty ... but can it be registered in Australia?

I think not, unless it is a personal import. Even though you might get import permission (as Mazda did not import them here themselves) you'd have to get the car fully engineered for ADR compliance ... and it won't comply without quite a few (expensive) mods, I'd guess.

I'm also guessing that's the source of Ezzy's bastard child drag car :D :D , as you can only import and use them for racing/rallying

 

Well its been over here for over a year. So it should be pretty easy to bring over. My mates just took there S7 FD over with them with no hassels at all.

Here are some pics

 

VERY tasty... but that's the thing, you'd have to bring its NZ owner (who has owned it for the last 12 mths) over with it... and God knows, we've got enough here already! [j/k]

...of course, they wouldn't have to stay too long..... I think...??

 

Maestro

Nice ride but out of my league i have budgeted for around $35,000 to- 45,000 for an Australian compliant car .

cheers
michael

 

its an import/for parts only, so cant be registered , the 13BTT and its drivetrain came out & into an aust spec S2. the one we got still have pretty straight body/shell & full leather interior. picking up the 308/gearbox this weekend, looking at the blower setup atm, as soon as its done, it will have a new paint job

 

Still reckon you should have gone for a 20B. The world has enough blown V8s :p

 

But why a 308 over an LS1? That's just crazy!

 

I agree.

 

They're cheap

 

Check the VIN.

Should be JM0FD1034-10000076 or similar

This would make it an Aussie delevered Series-VII. The fact that it was first registered in 99 is testament to Mazda Australia's ripp-off-the-rotary-customer policy as it sat around for a couple of years before the RX-7 was announced as "discontinued" in late 98 causing that minor? rush when they where doing them at $79K. ($10k off regular)

Here are the official Series-7 sales from Mazda Australia. When the same car was under $50K in Japan, you can understand why they hardly sold here ($89K)

1996 = 37
1997 = 54
1998 = 21

Much better "value for money" is a Jap spec "series-8". Contact me personally if you are serious about saving cash on one.

Now, if you think 294NM of 13B-REW torque is cool. Try 402NM from a 20B-REW Cosmo.

No wonder I love those cars.......................

REgards

 

David you are spot on the VIN is..JMOFD103400100087 .

My eldest son gave me the same advice as far as the jap spec series 8 being a far better proposition , thanks for your advice .
What sort of $ are you talking about with a series 8 from japan ?
cheers
michael

 

Dude you could own this beast for that.

Its a series 8 280ps with the highest Pwr to weight of all the RX-7's

Also the Factory seats are worth a cool $9000 from Mazda

Oh and its the only one outside of Japan to the best of my knowledge.

 

Or you could buy it and get DMRH to sort the compliance for ya

 

There's a white series 8, 30,000ks for $40k in today's SMH

 

Thanks i will check it out

cheers
michael

 

Timbo

Searched online cant find the add for the white series 8 RX7

cheers
michael

 

The only s8 you're going to find at that price is either:
* unregisterable
* auto RB model
* comes with free telegraph pole in the passenger seat
* all of the above

There's a mob in WA that bring in absolutely flogged s8's could have something to do with them.

 

im 99.5% sure they are imports :o

http://www.rpdata.net.au/cgi-bin/mvm...rs&condition=*

http://www.rpdata.net.au/cgi-bin/mvm...rs&condition=*

there is another place, just can think of the name now, will do a search for you later on

 

Saw it in the classified section of the paper ... don't know if it's online at drive.com.au .. but if you buy the paper