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Yeah, this sounds good to me - date dependent of course

Cool! I was so glad to get it out there. There\'s a whole story behind getting the RX4 up there... i\'ve been meaning to write up some notes and post on here... I will do so shortly!

I\'m sad to hear that this was the last Rotorstock. And sorry I couldn\'t make it but I managed to break my wrist so i\'m hoping i\'ll be forgiven. Driving the RX4 is kinda out atm.

Car culture is a funny old thing. I\'ve chatted to Clive about it but I used to do RX7 club stuff back in the pre-internet days (feeling old now!) and I was definitely in a minority for wanting to get my RX7 on track or talk about what the engine could achieve. But that was many years ago and over that time the culture did change, more rotaries got on track, prejudice against them became less and more people wanted to own one, maybe it\'s peaked for now but don\'t lose heart, the culture will shift again soon and a new and exciting era will dawn instead.

Thanks to Clive and Lisa for everything they have done over the years, there\'s a lot that\'s been achieved thanks to them.

Terri

RX4 metal boot/tail cover (sits between the rear lights)
RX4/929 Scuttle panel
Some panels (bit rusty though :/)

From my personal spares. Only selling a handful of bits as i\'m trying to raise a few quid to pay for the engine rebuild! Collect from Sussex preferably.

PM me with any offers please

Thanks

Terri

Lovely car Clive, can\'t wait to see it in the flesh sometime! Mine is on the road too now, although still loads to do on it, i\'ll get some updates posted soon.

If anyone\'s interested, Wheeler Dealers are doing an episode tonight on an RX7 FD. My RX4 and a few other rotary specials will be on there too (probably including me making a total ass of myself!) on Discovery @ 9pm 31st March 2014.

I just posted a request in the Wanted section, I missed this old school area so sorry for duplicating.

I\'m urgently looking for a pair of early 13B housings (with the water seal recesses in the housing rather than in the plates). If you have anything, please could you drop me a message. Thanks!

Terri

Deluxe had a radio, super deluxe had a rear window de mister in addition!
Your welcome to pop over Terri and see the race car.
Regards
Carl

Wow! Rear window demister eh? New fangled tech stuff hehe

Thanks Carl, i\'d love to. I\'m moving house in about 2 weeks and after then i\'ll be quite near to your place and i\'ll give you a shout so I can pop in.

Dad\'s old racer was originally a Celebration model, i\'ve still got the centre caps from two of the wheels from it. They make nice paperweights in the office for now

Cheers :Thumbsup!
Iv also got a lot of the centre consol as well as the arm rest and radio surround spare

That\'s great Steve, thank you. If you don\'t mind i\'ll definitely give you a shout about that!

Just had another look through your thread, you\'ve done an amazing job, brilliant work. I\'m going to draw on this for motivation for when I inevitably lose the will to live with mine hehe

Cheers Steve, thanks for the tips. There is a lot of underseal on there, i\'ll get her on the spit in time and see how solid she really is. Ooh wow a spare screen??...  Your RX3 looks mint btw!

I\'m trying not to think about the blue RX3 we had sat in the garden for so many years and gave away (well, pretty much anyway), I heard that the shell was scrapped but the interior was all kept, kicking myself now! That one was a super deluxe too. Mine is a Deluxe, i\'m not sure what the differences were.

I\'m looking forward to working on all those little bits, I have one seat and some door cards, the upper part of the centre console but not much else but i\'m not in a hurry. i\'ve got the RX4 to be getting on with first as well

I belive the rx3 your talking Bout at CRls is that exact one. However it is now a pearl blue as me and my dad had it up here and removed all the for and damaged bits and have it a good paint job.

It looked like it had been rolled at some point as the rear roof line by the top of rear window were squashed in. Sorted that though as I spent a couple of days getting the sale back. I would have that car in a heartbeat, just needs an engine and gear box

Grant, really so pleased to hear that it\'s still around. So, is it still at Carl\'s? Would love to see it sometime! Do you have any pictures you could send me at all? It\'s been a few colours in it\'s time, it was white originally, Dad sprayed it the lime green (see where i\'m going with mine, from the white to the green? .

Dad orignally found the car 3 cars high in a scrap yard but found very little wrong with it, repaired it and built a race car. Yes, Dad did roll it actually, throttle stuck open down the hill at Lydden, rolled 6 times. Funny how racing was back in those days, the marshals lifted my poor Mum over the armco, gave her a fire extinguisher (although I don\'t think there was any fire) and sent her off running down the track to deal with it! Crazy stuff.

The front quarter was wrecked after that crash, but Dad and Mark Hales got one from another of Dad\'s RX3, welded it back up and made it back into a race car. I\'ve got quite a few pics of this car back in it\'s first life, it\'s a big part of my rotary history. When i\'ve got round to scanning them, i\'ll put them up.

Cheers Clive, good to hear you found something cheaper in the end! I will be needing a screen for the RX3 at some point but it will be a while away I think. But I\'ll def bear that in mind, thank you.

Yes that was prod saloons back in 76, 77 I think. This was in the days of John Brindley, Wendy Markey, Gerry Marshall, Tony Lanfranchie, Ron Freeman... It seems that Dad\'s race car is still around, it was sold to Mark Hales and then turned into some sort of beast with big arches, I am wondering if it\'s the black one on Carl Hayward\'s website? Dave Nixon seems to think it probably is...

Yes, I have a few pics of your FC Clive, a couple taken at Jimmy\'s and also Billing.  I used to love the wheels you had on it. I guess I fell away from the RX7 OC in about 2000 so that sounds about right. Pre or at least very early internet days more or less haha!

The RX4 will be first on the road, it should be going for an MoT in a couple of weeks or so, so will hopefully see you around sometime

Wait until you start looking for interior parts. They\'re stupid prices

I see there\'s stuff on ebay for stupid money from abroad. I\'d love to put it back to original but prices are silly

I would start saving for a windscreen straight away. I believe Clive paid 900 euros for a spare for his rx4!!! Probably better getting a heated lexan one made. IF yours king a race car?

As for the green, its your car paint it how you want. If it was me I would give it the metallic green treatment. Same shade but with a bit of sparkle. Lol. However flat colours are nice and easy, AND CHEAP.

Wow, yeah that\'s a big price for a piece of glass! Guess i\'m expecting such things along the way... hopefully not too many of course This car will be a road car.

I do like the flat colour for this one, partly because i\'m thinking metallics for the RX4, but it\'s really early days and i\'m a long way off of the paint shop time and I might change my mind by then lol