Down at the grocery store

"PowderHound" (PowderHound) 09/04/2015 at 20:07 • Filed to: None

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Quite clean rx-7

Roadster Man > PowderHound 09/04/2015 at 20:12

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Just beautiful. I like the FD without the spoiler, just like that one. Make it yellow and that’s my dream car.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > PowderHound 09/04/2015 at 22:28

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Quite clean...

Quite freakin’ perfect, would be more accurate.

I still contend this design is one of the all-time greats, and quite near the top of any and all front-engined cab-aftward designs.

PowderHound > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 09/04/2015 at 22:34

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Some of the black plastic and the antennae wasn't there and a hole in its place. But yes other than that it was so nice. Recently registered too, still had paper plates.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > PowderHound 09/04/2015 at 23:03

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Power Antennae are the bane of that era of car... I have had three cars with them, and all have failed, and been prohibitively expensive to repair.

I took them all out when they mechanically failed, and one I replaced with a wire lead taped to the inside of the window glass’ black border, and then put a black plastic plug grommet from the hardware store into the hole in the fender of my old Ford Probe.

My SVX had one that was on it’s last leg when I got it, and when it finally came out, I plugged the antenna grommet with an automotive bodywork push-fastener from some spares that I had, but luckily SVX has dual diversity FM antennas, and still worked with only the glass-embedded one.

The third, I replaced in the Miata with a cheap chinese-made shorty rubber antenna, which barely works for FM, and not at all for AM, it kind of sucks. I should replace it again, but other priorities are higher.

Glass embedded, or other more modern alternatives are far better than failure-prone power antennae.

PowderHound > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 09/05/2015 at 12:30

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I have to stick my hand out the window and manually put the one in my wrx up. My old legacy I think it worked for a week and never again after that. So over power antennas.

yitznewton > PowderHound 09/05/2015 at 21:18

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That FD is like nothing else Mazda has come out with... I mean, I’m an 80s boy and very partial to the FC and NA Miata, but... wow.