I swear the rest must be in Maryland, Virginia, and Jersey.

 

i've seen one red one and one silver one in CT

 

So if there are only 3,300 FD's left what happend to all of them? I would think that there would be more than that still left.

 

It could be at a junk yard or been recycled.

 

ObliqueFD, why would you think that. Tons have been wrecked. Some are track cars that wouldn't be registered. The guy I bought mine from said he talked to 2 or 3 guys who buy them for the track, wreck em or blow engines and then use or sell the parts. The one guy had been through something like 10 cars. Not to mention how some people have trashed these cars. How many cars are long term projects sitting in someones garage for 4 years with a big hole in the engine bay. That barely counts as an FD you could see on the street. I don't see there being anyway there are more 3500 on the street and perhaps 400 or 500 purpose built race cars--no registration. God knows though how many are in varying states of disrepair without registration, that are probably going to parted or scrapped eventually. What a waste. Compare that to Porsche who brags (at least a few years ago) that something like 65% of all cars they have EVER built are still registered.

 

I guess I just didn't realize all of the possibilities.

 

if you assume a 5% yearly wreckage rate then there's about 8309 FDs left. you think 5% is too high/low?

7% drops the number to 6717

 

Which do you have? :-)


1993

Base Model - Auto Transmission
Silver Stone 58
Montego Blue 72
Brilliant Black 109
Vintage Red 151

Total-------------------------------------------------> 390


Base Model - Manual Transmission
Silver Stone 266
Montego Blue 319
Brilliant Black 418
Vintage Red 731

Total-----------------------------------------------> 1,734


Touring Model - Auto Transmission
Silver Stone 187
Montego Blue 244
Brilliant Black 258
Vintage Red 430

Total-----------------------------------------------> 1,119


Touring Model - Manual Transmission
Silver Stone 824
Montego Blue 954
Brilliant Black 1015
Vintage Red 1775

Total-----------------------------------------------> 4,568


R1 Model - Manual Transmission
Competition Yellow Mica 350
Brilliant Black 638
Vintage Red 1177

Total-----------------------------------------------> 2,165


ENTIRE 1993 YEAR TOTAL -----------------------------> 9,976


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1994

Base Model - Auto Transmission
Silver Stone 4
Montego Blue 50
Brilliant Black 16
Vintage Red 14
Chaste White 26

Total-------------------------------------------------> 110


Base Model - Manual Transmission
Silver Stone 22
Montego Blue 116
Brilliant Black 48
Vintage Red 60
Chaste White 54

Total-------------------------------------------------> 300


Touring Model - Auto Transmission
Silver Stone 26
Montego Blue 105
Brilliant Black 42
Vintage Red 59
Chaste White 63

Total-------------------------------------------------> 295


Touring Model - Manual Transmission
Silver Stone 118
Montego Blue 516
Brilliant Black 235
Vintage Red 248
Chaste White 276

Total-----------------------------------------------> 1,393


Popular Equipment Package - Manual Transmission
Silver Stone 74
Montego Blue 323
Brilliant Black 150
Vintage Red 159
Chaste White 203
Pearly White 1

Total-------------------------------------------------> 910


R2 Model - Manual Transmission
Silver Stone 83
Brilliant Black 156
Vintage Red 156

Total-------------------------------------------------> 395


ENTIRE 1994 YEAR TOTAL -----------------------------> 3,403


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1995


Base Model - Auto Transmission
Silver Stone 2
Montego Blue 10
Brilliant Black 5
Vintage Red 7
Chaste White 2

Total--------------------------------------------------> 26


Base Model - Manual Transmission
Silver Stone 6
Montego Blue 23
Brilliant Black 21
Vintage Red 19
Chaste White 13

Total--------------------------------------------------> 82


Popular Equipment Package - Auto Transmission
Silver Stone 4
Montego Blue 16
Brilliant Black 9
Vintage Red 5
Chaste White 2

Total--------------------------------------------------> 36


Popular Equipment Package - Manual Transmission
Silver Stone 34
Montego Blue 101
Brilliant Black 62
Vintage Red 69
Chaste White 33

Total-------------------------------------------------> 299


R2 Model - Manual Transmission
Silver Stone 16
Brilliant Black 18
Vintage Red 23

Total--------------------------------------------------> 57


ENTIRE 1995 YEAR TOTAL -------------------------------> 500

ENTIRE 3rd GENERATION TOTAL -----------------------> 13,879

 

It is a sad topic, but since I've joined this forum I've seen countless "totalled my FD" threads. The bright side is if we could get a solid verified number it would definetly bring the value up when selling the car.

 

Interesting.... I can see only 3500 left that registerd. I have seen about 15 in the Federal Way, Seattle to Bellingham area in Washington St. and thats about a 130 mile area. They are diffinetly rare. I have one of 430 witch I think is not bad. But thin again I am also just happy to own one.

The hard numbers on running FD's would be nice to have. And I wander how many of those are worth owning I have seen alot of flat out trashed to the max FD's (lord have mercy on those bastards, I hope they burn). To kill a peace of art like a FD is only justifiable by death.

 

ttb, I think a 5-7% totalled rate per year makes sense, but what about fires, grenaded engines, expensive turbo repairs and other issues we as enthusiasts see lots of, but we repair. These things cause the less enthusiastic to part out the car or send it to the boneyard.

 

BTW, what is the deal with the one Pearly white car, versus the rest of the white Fds being chaste white. Someone add something not so chaste to that white paint?

 

my car is a 94 pearl white PEP, i think, what is the paint color code number on the other "white" rx-7's could it be that i have the only pearl white rx-7?

 

That car is in Irvine California at Mazda's headquarters. I dont believe it will ever be sold.

 

since these cars are becomming so rare, shouldnt the value be going up? wonder what they will be worth 10 yrs. from now?
93 red auto touring here.

 

I always thought cars decreased in value as they grow older. Don't get me wrong, the FD is surely in the same category of being a "work of art" like Superman Issue #1 or something. But just don't see cars growing in value as a comic book or something.

Hehe, I'm hanging onto Magic: The Gathering cards, hope they'll be worth something later on. I got some cards in 1995 that were worth $4-5 and the last time I checked, they were still worth $4-5.

 

The 'popular' cars and trucks EACH sell over 240,000 units annually in the States alone. Ford and Chevy pickups sell over 500,000 units combined, annually.
Annually.......!

Puts it all in perspective, doesn't it? The total imported to the U.S. (or was it North America?) was between 13,800 and 15,000 depending on what figures you use.
The total FD import over the 3 model years is only about 6% of ONE of the popular cars for ONE year!

This one of the reasons we all cringe when someone totals one of these cars. And why some get irate if it is just some punk that is like, "Dude...so I was, like racin' this Civic and you know..we were doin' like 130 on this side street when this kid ran out chasin his cat and I had to swerve and hit this tree, man...it was sick! My car is like...you know...in pieces...but Hey, I'm okay and lookin' to get another one of these badass cars....but this time I'm gonna mod it up you know and get like 500 RWHP and lower it and put some 20s on it....you know...."

 

Looks like Silver Stone is the rarest 94/95 color, other than the Pearly White with 1 made.

I guess that's why it was so hard to find a SS 94 Touring.

The CYM is still the color to have..........I'm still lusting after Damians track car.

 

2-Rotor, thanks for the clarification on the pearly white. Its odd to see a factory color with only 1 car painted that color.

 

I'm a little confused...are those statistics saying there was only ONE pearl white RX-7 produced?

-C

 

Your paint code is PT the same as every other white 3rd gen. PT is Chaste white

 

Well I have seen a few at Cal Poly Pomona, and I have driven past a house in Clairmont that has about 2-3 3rd gens and couple of 2nd gens and some first gens. Now thats a rotary family but I have never stopped to talk to them.

 

I think most of the 7's are migrating to the Eastern US.....Delaware is starting to eat em up.....I think we have about 20 in a 50 mile radius of my house

 

More on Pearl White...

I have seen a pearl white RX-7 at a dealership in Durham, NC; with a gold package (not for sale, at the service dept). The paint and pin striping exhibited normal wear for a 93/94 vehicle. It's possible that it had been painted, but being that this was 6-7 years ago (the car being fairly new), I doubt it.

I know there are at least a couple people on this board who say they have pearl white paint; suggesting perhaps the fore mentioned statistics are incorrect.

-C

 

how about supras? how are theydying out in comparison to our Rexs'?