Hello from Austria

[MisterKane]

Hello guys!

My name is Gernot, I'm from Graz/Austria and I'm wondering about not stumbled over this forum earlier.

A few years ago, my only intention was to get a sportscar and my student's budget said "take a japanese one!" That time I didn't know the 1st gen RX7, just the FD. Once, someone offered a very rusty FB in a forum for japanese cars, I saw the pictures and I fell in love. So I started searching for a cheap better one - hardly to find - so I bought two "bad" ones for restoration of one. It took about two years to get the body ready, but the engine didn't work, although i overhauled the carburator and ignition. I didn't know anything about the rotary engine and its special problems, but I learned it the hard way.

Because of my works on my first RX7, I got to know a Mazda mechanic who tried to sell his FB for years, but much too expensive. As i told him of my dead engine, he offered his RX7 for much less money than just an used engine and the painting for my "old" one would have cost, so I took the chance in january 2011 and bought my happiness.

The car is stock except the 15" rims and the paint, which I had to get used to, but now I really like it!

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Greetz,
MisterKane

[ian65]

Hello guys!

My name is Gernot, I'm from Graz/Austria and I'm wondering about not stumbled over this forum earlier.

A few years ago, my only intention was to get a sportscar and my student's budget said "take a japanese one!" That time I didn't know the 1st gen RX7, just the FD. Once, someone offered a very rusty FB in a forum for japanese cars, I saw the pictures and I fell in love. So I started searching for a cheap better one - hardly to find - so I bought two "bad" ones for restoration of one. It took about two years to get the body ready, but the engine didn't work, although i overhauled the carburator and ignition. I didn't know anything about the rotary engine and its special problems, but I learned it the hard way.

Because of my works on my first RX7, I got to know a Mazda mechanic who tried to sell his FB for years, but much too expensive. As i told him of my dead engine, he offered his RX7 for much less money than just an used engine and the painting for my "old" one would have cost, so I took the chance in january 2011 and bought my happiness.

The car is stock except the 15" rims and the paint, which I had to get used to, but now I really like it!







Greetz,
MisterKane

Hi Gernot,

welcome to the forum, that's a very nice 1st gen you have there,

glad you joined up

cheers,
Ian

[TOOL]

Welcome mate. Good to have another contact in Austria.

[RamoNZ]

Schönes Auto!

[Lucky]

Very nice ! Welcome along

[codge]

Hi There. Is It Green?

We call that colour 'Mushy Pea' over here on this Forum.....and we love it to bits. It's suddenly appearing on new cars here as well.

Only the Series 1 UK cars (early 1st Generation) seemed to come in "Mushy Pea Green'

[Lucky]

I think the Great British Chip Shop might be the only place in the world that sell mushy peas, Dave. You may need to translate that one

[MisterKane]

Hi,

no, it's not really green, all in all it looks like cyan. Depending on the incidence of sunlight, you can see several nuances between green and violet. Here, we call it Flip-Flop- or interference paint.
That's far away from any stock colour. You can see it quite well on this picture of last winter (there are no scratches, just ice ):



I think I know the colour "Mushy Pea" - a friend's '79 SA is painted like that. In Austria and Germany, it's a very rare colour and it was only available for the Series 1 of 1st generation RX7's here as well.

[myatt1972]

Great looking car Gernot, welcome to the forum.
Paint looks great, we would call it "pearlescent"

[ian65]

it might be a trick of the light but that green that we saw on the series 1's really suits the s2 /s3 shape...... never thought I'd say that

Really like your car Gernot, very smart