Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1980 Mazda RX-7, with Incredibly 80s Custom Paint

First-generation RX-7s aren't uncommon Junkyard Finds, even though the youngest ones are 27 years old now. However, not many full-on early-to-mid-80s custom paint jobs show up at junkyards these days. Here's one I found in Denver last week.
Purple, pink, and gold with pinstripes!
With a 5-digit odometer, there's no way of knowing how many miles this car traveled during its 32 years on the planet. 88,000? 188,000? 288,000? It seems pretty clean, given its current parking space, so the first figure could be the right one.
It's possible that this wild paint job got sprayed on while Jimmy Carter was still in the White House, or perhaps it was applied five years ago. So many mysteries with a car like this!


28 MPG in an early RX-7? Ah, for the days when highway fuel economy was calculated at 42 MPH… down a steep grade… drafting behind a line of tractor-trailers.

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from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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