ok i have always been told that there were no turbo verts in america from the factory. today this guy said he had a 91 that was turbo from the factory. he seemed to know what he was talking about but i dont know if he was bs-ing me or not. he said they only made like250 or 300 of them. anyone know anything?

 

all japanese fcs were turbo...is it righthand drive? I'm sure you would've picked up on that right away

 

look at the vin:



jmifc331 is na coupe



jm1fc332 is turbo coupe



jm1fc351 is vert



jm1fc352 is vert with airbags

 

Thanks for the vins!! I wondered that myself. There is a Turbo Vert forsale in Florida and its supposidly factory correct. It was a promotional car built be mazda for a commercial back in the early 90's featuring James Garner. He WAS asking 12K for it its still for sale almost a year later but the price is down to 7K.

 

its very possible they brought a few in for stuff like that and testing, but IF they did its prolly under 15-20 cars. you'll notice they dont even have a vin for a turbo vert...



what you are looking for is factory correctness, things like make sure the hood hasnt been changed, put it this way i did a t2 -> gtus swap and i made sure EVERYTHING under the hood was correct, even the zip ties. the only way you could tell it was a swap is by looking at the hood hinges.... but if you see things that arent right its prolly a backyard job

 

hows this? not an FC guy, but is there a big difference in the hood hinges?

 

no, you need to see if they changed to a turbo hood

 

i didnt actually see the car. he said he had some injector probs and it was at the dealer for like 8 mos. when he went to pick it up it was gonna be like 8000 bucks so he told them to keep it. if i would have seen it i would have been able to tell.

 

thats some storage bill



it all sounds like bullshit to me

 

Yeah something is fishy there..