I found out about them while flipping through the old 1982 edition of The Complete Collectable Car book. Very nice book if you love cars btw.



Anyway I was flipping through and saw the NSU Wankel Spider, so I started reading on it and found out about odd ball Wankel engine (Incidentally, later on I owned an NSU Prinz sedan with that lawmower sounding 2 piston motor). Started checking out books, reading about it and all then finally asked my dad about them. He said "Oh yeah, the only company that ever made them was Mazda and they had tons and tons of problems with all of them but that little sports car they make...RX-7 I think it is"



I promptly started looking around for RX-7's and of course cause I was looking for one I never did see one till much later and it was driving by real fast. 1st gen, only type I would have recognized at the time. Thought it sounded cool and all that, dad had explained the old Mazda commerical. (Piston engines go boing boing boing...)



Learned all about them (must have been all of 16 at the time) and then kinda forgot as I went back into VW's and became a mechanic and all that (Yeah I'm a highschool drop out)



Many many years later after I was married I was sitting in a Vons parking lot waiting for my wife to come out and saw an RX-7 sitting next to me. I thought "Yeah rotary engines...HEY WAIT I HAVE A JOB AND I CAN BUY ONE!"



Dad got a 79 at auction for $200 a day later. I never spoke to him. Ironic eh?



Anyway, the 79 is but a memory and now I have two 87's and there will be many many more rotary engines in my future. Heck maybe one of these days I'll find an NSU Wankle spider.



Some day.



Rotarydragon

 

It was when my neighbor bought a brand new 1987 RX-7. It was sweet. I wanted one ever since.

 

My dad owned one in the late 80s, 85 base auto. Use to find excuses to go drive it. Like having my friends come over and then having to take them home.

And once i saw what the engine was about and what could be done with them I was forever damned, or blessed. take your pick.

Then I saw the latest reincarnation in 93, and said to myself I need to get one. A few years later, a friend got one, 84 GSL. Then another friend got one, 80. Next thing you know im like, VWs whats that. Now I have 3 cars that I always wished I had and none of them are running, ok the Ghia is running, but VWs 12A equivalent leaves you with a nostalgic, yet empty feeling.

Im just hoping that whatever I do to my car leaves it better than before.

 

1600's are easy enough to come by, in fact it's hard to find a 1200cc. Heck try finding an original 1300cc.



It's not too hard to get peformance out of the VW motor really.

 

I figured it out after I bought my first rx7 (1990 GTU).

 

My neighbor back in 84 got one exactally like the one I have now and then my best friend got the same one, then he wanted to sell it and I scored it off him, been a awesome car ever since!

 

My dad used to own a first gen GSL, and my sister's first car was a first gen. When it came time for me to replace my Audi, I asked my dad to tell me more about the RX-7, and after researching the hell out of them, I decided to buy a second gen. Now I'm on my second second gen, and I don't think I can escape the addiction.

 

I knew somebody who had an RX-7 when I was about 12, but I never knew that it had a rotary. I never heard of the rotary until I got my first car, an 89 GTU, 8 years ago.

 

first one i saw and looked at in 1999. friends older brother has a 94 MBM MINT! i was like what the hell is that !!! launched hard when he left the parking lot! i was like i must get one of those! well i researched and got a broken 88 SE for $200 then bought my 89 GTU then got a 87 TII then a 93 base, junked the 88 SE, sold the 87 TII, bought a 89 TII for $500, sold the 89 GTU, and here i am now with two non running rx7's

 

NEED FOR SPEED 1 SE... lol

Had the 95 or whatever RX7 your could drive there!

Yellow!!!!

Wanted that exact car ever since!!!



lol still got the game still play it! Still drive the RX7... about as close as I can get right now!