Cheap '92 Roadster S-Special anyone?

"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
03/16/2018 at 04:34 • Filed to: None

Just got this one at work and played with two days ago... Lots of fun as usual, if we except the hubcaps that tend to fly around when the car is driven hard haha (Lost two in the video... ). If any Opponaut wants it, it’s $4500, shipping to a port in the US or Canada, or anywhere really, included. I was kind of thinking about keeping that one for myself for a few months as I’ll be selling the RX7, getting the Lancia and this car had about 1 year of shaken left... but my boss canceled the shaken without telling me :(

It’s 99% S-Special stock... Bilstein suspensions, LSD and BBS wheels. Steering wheel and shifter are not original though.

Anyway, here is the usual video on the car, test driven on Mount Rokko and a couple pics to go with it ;)

Not cosmetically perfect, but rust free and mechanically SUPER good.

DISCUSSION (11)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Flavien Vidal
03/16/2018 at 06:05

how much are the caps?

and more importantly given the car is 25years old now, are they still available?

Flavien Vidal > pip bip - choose Corrour
03/16/2018 at 06:16

If you check the video, I caught them haha... Got the car with one cap missing though... And they are standard BBS caps, nothing special...

Now that you can import 25yo cars you’re shopping? :D

pip bip - choose Corrour > Flavien Vidal
03/16/2018 at 06:20

vehicles imported so long as they meet certain criteria less than 25/30 years old are legal here in Australia, so long as they’re RHD

i did see you found the one in the video that came off. just thought they might be hard to come by

Flavien Vidal > pip bip - choose Corrour
03/16/2018 at 06:26

Up until now they had to be on the SEVS register... so if it wasn’t on that list, you couldn’t import it... That’s why MCM had to resort to such a crazy build for their Mira. It wasn’t on the list of legal imports...

Starting 2018, things are changing though ;)

https://www.finder.com.au/australian-car-import-reforms

Mazda Roadster were not on that list and couldn’t be imported into Australia until now... FD RX-7, ok, but only the last version... and other weird stuff like this

pip bip - choose Corrour > Flavien Vidal
03/16/2018 at 06:33

years ago there were imports of the Eunos Roadster.

Flavien Vidal > pip bip - choose Corrour
03/16/2018 at 06:42

By dealers when the car was new... I’m not sure when the SEVS list was enacted, but at least from 2000 (last update of imports laws into Australia) until 2018, it was impossible to privately import a Eunos Roadster legally into Australia.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Flavien Vidal
03/16/2018 at 06:44

they were only sold new in Oz as a Mazda MX5, the Eunos variants were used imports from Japan.

Flavien Vidal > pip bip - choose Corrour
03/16/2018 at 06:45

Surely all imported before 2000 then

pip bip - choose Corrour > Flavien Vidal
03/16/2018 at 06:51

unsure about that honestly, you could be correct.

Stapleface > Flavien Vidal
03/16/2018 at 09:59

Curious question, if you would know. Since the Miata has always sold in the US, if someone wanted a JDM model would they still have to wait the 25 years? Just spitballing here, but say someone wanted a RHD NC. Could that be imported or would it still have to wait? I’ve always kind of wondered this about the US import ban.

Flavien Vidal > Stapleface
03/16/2018 at 10:01

Wouldn’t work as it’S a RHD car which would be considered as a significant enough modification so that it would void the original Miata crash test results and void the “it’s the same car” argument :)