Hey,
I just saw another rare sighting of a first gen RX-7 here in my town Rockford, Illinois. The car was at Sandy Hallow road, and it looked like thewy had just bought it because it had temporary plates and was coming out of an area were there is a collector cars dealer. The car looked just like mine, Tornado silver, around the year '81.

If the guy is not already a member of this forum, i hope he will be joining us.

Let us know if this was you i saw on Monday September 20, 2004. Around the middle of the day.

I need to contact as many local guys here so we can meet and start a local club.

See you guys around!

 

First gens are rare around our parts, have you seen at the bone yard?

 

You guys should go to blackhawk farms this weekend we'll be there with our car for the solo 1 stuff with midwestern council. you guys could even take your cars. its like $100 for the entry fee i think. PM me if you guys go or just want to come check out the races.

Ron

 

First gens are rare in Chicagoland.. I did see a nice and clean 2nd Gen in the Loop last week-end parked on upper Wacker. If you are looking for a 1st gen in a junk yard I dropped an 80 off in Aurora to get it out of the yard. It was my parts car..

 

Actually there is a 1985 RX-7 Special edition in a local yunk yard. It still has the rotary in it. Not much seemed to be missing.
According to the attendent the reason it was yunked was that it needed the clutch!?
The funny thing is that someone tried to open the hood using a crow bar or something like that. I guess they didn't know where the hood realease was. The hood release worked fine when i used it.

Yeah, hope we can find a local place to meet here one day. Anyone know of the Byron Dragway?


Myc1972

 

I sighted another FB RX-7 today at Mulford and SpringCreek today, near Chritian Life high school. The car was black in color.

I got some more pics of my car by the way....here you go guys!

 

....i forgot to ask if anyone can make tose pictures smaller for me so i can use them as my Avatar.

It would be much appreciated! Thanks!

 

I resized them, but need your email address so I can send them to you.

 

Thanks 1stgen4life!

I sent you my email address by PM.

Thank you!

 

yea i saw one a long while ago in bloomingdale when i was on my way 2 school it was the same color as your's 'myc1972' an it had temp tag's on it, very nice lookin, yea they are rare 2 find up here...but man back home all u see are 1st gen's mostly 12a's

 

all the FB's around here are goin to the bone yard for stupid reasons too....i feel bad and im pretty sure seeing an FB wil be like seeing a UFO in a couple years

 

he is on the forum but i cant remeber his name

 

you probably saw mine in spring creek and mulford..I have a black FB

 

Cant wait to get my hands on a 7 Fb or Sa I really dont mind...

 

Awsome! Nice to contact other local RX-7 owners. Am hoping to start a local club here in Rockford so we can meet and chat and check out the cars we have. It won't matter what generation they have. It would be neat to see all the different kinds toghether. I see that at DQ they have classic car meetings on some mondays. It would be cool if one had them for RX-7!

Great knowing it was you i saw, and i hope to keep coming across more

Myc1972


Thanks to all the guys that reply to my posts!

 

A friend of mine with his greyish GSL-SE just drove through Rockford a few weeks ago. You may have seen his car.

 

actually my brother almost bought the car that you have...it was for sale over on Kishwaukee right? There is still a red one there that is for sale, but it needs a carb. Id be interested in getting to gether with some people...i know my bro would. Talk soon!

 

Faye x7 told me he had a bro in the club, with an RX-7. I kind of had a feeling
it was you

Yeah, i bought the car and the salesman told me that someone had been very
interested in buying it before i came that day. It must of been your bro.

It would be very cool if we could get a local club going and do some meetings

Hope to see you guys soon!

Myc1972