New FD owner

[cjp]

Hi, I had been thinking about buying an RX7 for about 18 months and have found the guidance on this forum invaluable.

I wanted a factory spec unmodified example, so have had a 2001 Type R Bathurst R imported from Japan.

I have had it for a couple of weeks now and it has exceeded all my expectations, the ideal midlife crisis car!

[boosted]

We are usually a lot friendly than this so sorry no welcome post! Welcome to the club!
Your only down the road from me I\'m in Westbury!

Get some pics up.

[clive]

Welcome to MRC :Thumbs-up

Look forward to reading and seeing details on your Bathhurst.

[cjp]

Boosted, I started my working life in Westbury as an Aprentice for Blue Circle in 86. It was quite an intense experiance straight from school, winter days spent knee deep in chalk slurry at the quary by the White horse, summer days in the kiln house.

The Bathurst is my first proper performance car and my first RWD since the 78 323 1.4SP that I had when I passed my test. I am keeping my Mazda3 diesel for day to day use.

I found a copy of Brian Long\'s RX7 book about 5 years ago and rekindled my interest in the cars. When the time came to buy a sportscar, I thought about a lot of different cars, but kept coming back to the RX7. It\'s design focus and unique power train really appealed to me.

The Bathurst has done 130,000km and has some stone chips and slight wear on the drivers seat bolsters. It came with the hand book and extensive service paper work, all in Japanese of course. It came fitted with 17" RS type wheels instead of the standard 16" ones.

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Quite a few of my mates are ex Blue Circle was a big employer locally until shutting down....I had a tour around on a job interview for a maintenance engineer position about 2 years before it closed. I got offered the job but took another. An impressive site no less and i could help thinking id be rescuing tyres from the kilns for track days!

Car looks stunning i would be very happy having that in my garage!

Need to get it on the Japfest MRC stand next year i think.

This site has a wealth of info on here and loads of friendly guys.

[fil_auto]

That looks very pretty