"daender" (daender)
02/08/2014 at 10:45 • Filed to: None
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"daender" (daender)
02/08/2014 at 10:45 • Filed to: None | 1
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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! The owner's been able to track down the RX-3's history in the US during it's IMSA time but can't find any history or what happened to the car during its early days racing in the Japanese Touring Car Championship against Celicas and GT-R's. Oh, and the old 12A is ported and rated to 270 hp at 9000 rpm.
The current owner is sanding it down but he noticed there's a faint red-blue stripe hidden under the top layer of paint. It might match the series-1 RX-3's posted above in early-70s JTCC racing. The theory is that the car is a series-1 RX-3 that was updated to a series-2 nose and fender flairs since the car was owned by a US Mazda dealer during its IMSA racing days after coming over from JTCC and wanted the car to match the current models for sale.
The owner's at a fork in the road in restoration, he can either revive it as a historic JTCC car if he can find its correct history or leave it as a IMSA RX-3 monster. If it goes the JTCC route, then the massive fender flairs have to come off for smaller period-correct ones, smaller-width racing wheels, and the IMSA-rated roll cage comes out. Which route would you take, smaller but more historical JTCC or the bigger and meaner IMSA look?
Harrison Voorhees
> daender
02/08/2014 at 11:50 |
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KnowsAboutCars
> daender
02/08/2014 at 16:36 |
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I'd try to keep it as much as possible in as is condition and make it drivable.
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daender
> KnowsAboutCars
02/08/2014 at 16:53 |
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That's an neat option but I'm not sure if it'd be allowed into historic racing events.
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KnowsAboutCars
> daender
02/08/2014 at 17:08 |
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It might not be allowed to race but it is one of a kind time capsule in this condition and if it's restored it becomes just another restored vintage race car.