Original owners
Original owners
I picked up my RX-7 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri in early January 1979 and I have owned it ever since. I was wondering if there is anyone out there who has owned one for longer than that. I know there may be a few older RX-7s, but how many are still with their original owner after all these years?
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79RX7 wrote:I picked up my RX-7 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri in early January 1979 and I have owned it ever since. I was wondering if there is anyone out there who has owned one for longer than that. I know there may be a few older RX-7s, but how many are still with their original owner after all these years?
thats going to be hard to find but i have two 79 , the second one the owner dies and the spouse sold it to me is all original and my 1st one is modified both of them were aurora white but i painted my turbo RX7 ( Ford mustang white )
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When I sold my 79 Rx-7, a guy called who is the original owner of the first Rx-7 sold in Colorado.
He bought it from the dealer with 7K on it and still has it. (I verified this with a guy who worked at the dealer then and remembered the car.)
Now he's restoring it. He had a couple of other very cool cars, too, including something like a 1925 Rolls-Royce.
But January, 1979? I bet 2/3 of the folks on this forum weren't born yet!
It's great you still have your car. Congratulations!
He bought it from the dealer with 7K on it and still has it. (I verified this with a guy who worked at the dealer then and remembered the car.)
Now he's restoring it. He had a couple of other very cool cars, too, including something like a 1925 Rolls-Royce.
But January, 1979? I bet 2/3 of the folks on this forum weren't born yet!
It's great you still have your car. Congratulations!
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There is a guy here in town, a retired AF officer, that bought the 3rd RX-7 sold in town and he still has it. He's not on here though, I think he's in his 70s or 80s. He comes to the meets sometimes though, when I call and invite him haha. I saw him driving on Peterson and I chased him down as we were walking into the BX haha. He's a really cool guy and I love his stories haha.
speedjunkie wrote:What?! I lived in Cape from 1990 - 1996 Are you from there?
No, I am not from Cape Girardeau. I was living in Houston at the time, and the dealers were demanding - and getting - up to $14,000 for RX-7s. A friend put me in touch with Weiser Motors in Cape Girardeau, who sold me the car for list price. I picked it up on the way home from an overseas trip via New York and St. Louis, and drove it home to Houston. I had never even test driven an RX-7, but figured that I could sell it for more than I paid for it if I did not like it. Obviously I did like it, as I still have it.
I don't think I'll ever keep a car that long. I get bored too quickly. And yea, I wasn't born for another 4 months after that, lol.
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