Jan 1 1994

1984 Mazda RX-7

Purchase information such as VIN is long lost.

I remember owning this vehicle and enjoying it quite a lot, but it’ll take some research to know roughly when I owned it.

Some time after learning about the only production vehicle with a non-standard engine, I set out to find a decent, and not abused sample of this car. I found this 1984 Black on Red RX-7 for sale in the paper, I believe roughly $1,500 at the time. No ghetto mods in here! It had a manual sunroof that you could pop-open in the front or completely remove. Ahhhh, sunroofs.

The car ran smooth for the time with the rotary, it was pretty impressive. The engine was a lot of fun to rev up while driving, you never felt it doing so, it did not shake and torque itself. The car handled and drove much better than the larger muscle cars I had been driving. This Mazda definitely got me hooked on the smaller car types, they are just a lot more fun to drive. This thing was especially low to the ground by nature. It was not lowered, it was just naturally a small car.

Owning a non-standard engine was entertaining in a lot of mild ways, for instance, having to discuss with the DMV that I could not check any of the “how many cylinders” boxes on the registration form.

After a while the exhaust connection near the catalytic converter produced a hole that just lot…louder. These vehicles do not sound good at all with their exhaust exposed like that, I certainly don’t understand why people put noisy exhausts on them int eh first place; the natural sound of the rotary is not pleasing by any means. Very harsh and tinny. And piercing.