Hello everyone!
After lurking on here for years and searching for a RX-7 I am finally able to make a build thread post! Per the title I have purchased Halfspec's 7. I had been following his build thread for years (located here:
http://www.norotors.com/index.php?topic=70.0 )and always said if that dude ever sells that thing I NEED it. LOL So I was the one to get to him first, but another member on here beat my offer and purchased it. Lane gave me a opportunity to counter and was really cool about the whole deal but I was tapped out on my budget. After it sold I had serious remorse and e-mailed Lane and said if the time is right give the new owner my name and contact just in case
About 2 weeks later I get a PM on here from the new owner and we started talking and anyway I moved my budget up and purchased the car from him. By this time the car had made it to Charleston about 9 hours FURTHER from me here in Iowa so I had to have it shipped.
Car shipping - WHAT A PROCESS, well it is for something reasonable. When you go to some of these sites to request a quote you must get put on some automatic thing because my phone started to blow up with texts and calls non stop! I picked a company but they couldn't ever get to the pick up so I had to switch gears and got another company to pick up. When they did they arrived at the sellers house like 4 hours late in the evening (10-11pm) and it was off. Took over 6 days to get here but it arrived in perfect shape, not even any water marks, just dusty so they must have drove it in sunlight only
For those that don't know I had been searching for a RX-7 for many years about 8 to be exact. I am picky and I wanted one with a near mint black interior and I wanted a 95 for no reason other than to keep some resale and add to the uniqueness. I then stumbled on this site and Halfspec's thread and there I was patiently watched behind the scenes for updates! Over the years I knew this car was the one. In fact I was bugging my wife about this exact car many years ago, to which a eye roll followed.
Fast forward and I was still yipping about the car and she knew I wasn't going to stop HAHA.
So I am elated to say the least. This is the "one" for me. I have only EVER seen 2 FD's in the upper midwest. 1 was running the other was a shell. So they are rarer than rare up here. I have a history with modifying cars like most on here, I wont go into a ton of detail about those but this will be my first 'toy' the others were all my functional transportation, I now rely on my '16 F-150 SE for that. That said, and Lane can attest I am a FD NEWB beyond belief I was caught up trying to find one, I never put the time into understanding the idiosyncrasies of them. Lane has been very helpful so far but to those that may comment don't assume I know what your talking about! LOL I will get up to speed eventually but in the meantime I appreciate any and all 'tips' or tricks that you all have learned.
I will do a driving impression and some pictures thread in a while, this week I head out on a 4 hour drive with the car, and I'm so excited to spend that much time in it. Can't wait! So far only having it for a day I have put 60 miles on it and one WOW describes it! More to come!!
