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    Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    We can't stop here! This is Rust Country!


    Nice Price.

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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    If this car is running with its original apex seals, it might be a Guiness World Record qualifier. If not, it might worth the price.


    Yeah, it does look like a malformed Maverick. But compared some of the yawn-inducing sheet-metal Mazda shoveled our way in the 80s and 90s...it's very cool.

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    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    I say nice price. Consider what it has going for it: 13B, 5-speed, 2-door pillarless hardtop body, insanely low miles, period correct coloring and upholstery, rare...


    Ughhh...Must...Keep...Checkbook...In...Pocket...

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    Well, shoot - I thought I'd be the first one to say "Vega." Anyhoo, there it is. A Vega with an even more headache-inducing engine, if there could ever be one.


    I'd still jump at it. Nice Price!

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    Not for me, but I voted nice price. The steering wheel plus the Frankenstein stitching on the gear shift boot, the sexy-time velor--what's not to love?
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    Image of General Halfshaftery General Halfshaftery
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    What the hell, that dashboard looks pretty modern. Change the materials and gauges and it would be right at home in a new car.


    [jalopnik.com]

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    12/08/08

    @General Halfshaftery: that is an awesome steering wheel!
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    I voted nice price, and am apparently not alone. Truthfully, I wouldn't pay that much for it, since for the same money, there are cars that I would rather have, but for a true fan, you'll not find a better one. I've never priced out parts for an RX-4, but I'd venture a guess that you wouldn't be able to restore one to this level for under $18,500, and even if you could, a car can only be original once.
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    I have to lean towards nice price. You'll never find another one like this again, and nobody could reproduce it unlike most high buck muscle cars. But I'm admittedly a sucker for pre-85 Japanese iron (or tin depending on who you ask).
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    Geez, are any of these cars ever worth what the seller is asking? This one's nice and all ('cept for that cat vomit velour interior) but who wants a mazda-built celica poseur, especially one of the uglier big-bumper cars? Wouldn't you really rather have a nice RX2?


    Admittedly, this comes with the 13B rather than the earlier Luce's 12A, but still that's one heavy mother. And there's still that interior . . .


    Crackpipe.

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    12/08/08

    @graverobber- My Yugo Nova!: My backyard mechanic built up a hot-rod RX2. He ditched the Wankel (...and cue Mazda guys crying... now!) and put in a built-up Ford 4.0L V6 with a junkyard turbo that he removed off of, and I quote, "something Japanese". That is one of the very few cars that actually scared me, and scared me a lot. I suspect its 0-60 time would have been in negative numbers, because he took me for a drive, and when he launched it, I'm fairly certain my eyeballs got sucked into the back of my skull.
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    12/08/08

    @graverobber- My Yugo Nova!: It's worth that much to someone I'm sure.


    Give me a 76 Celica fastback, please.


    but yea, nice price.

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    12/08/08

    @creamed_corn: I don't know about that much to someone, but I guess they can put whatever price they want on it.


    BTW, didn't these things have thermal reactors for emissions control, with a secondary tailpipe and molten-lava spewed out the back end?

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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    Does it really deserve an Antique plate?
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    12/08/08

    @Triborough: Are you kidding?
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    12/08/08

    @Gearhead_42: No.

    It just seems a bit too new for antique status.
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    12/08/08

    @Triborough: The "antique" threshold is usually 25 or 30 years old, so '76 and rare, yeah.
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    12/08/08

    @Triborough: I've got a '78 Fairmont with antique plates in the DOTSBE queue.
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    Image of MerkurScorpio MerkurScorpio
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    That really is a sublime example of a car that is all but absent on today's roads. Show condition in every way, shape, and form. It's also probably just as reliable as the best vehicles out today (maybe more so), so without hesitation, I'm going to say nice price.
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    12/08/08

    @MerkurScorpio: Rotary engines aren't the most reliable,& expensive to fix when it goes wrong.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    The piston engine gos, "@#$%#@$%%&#@@**^". The Mazda engine goes, "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......I need oil..."


    I voted nice price anyway.

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    12/08/08

    @johnnyichiban: I El-Oh-El'd a that one.


    And agreed, nice price. $18k is nothing for a low mileage, mint condition vintage compact. Think about it, if it were a mint condition Honda CVCC, we'd be saying, "where do I send the cheque?"

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/08/08

    @johnnyichiban:
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    Here it is folks, your "Nice Price" winner. That is amazing.

    If this were an original Fiat or Triumph would there even be a question?

    I'll answer that, "No!" If I had $18k to spend, I would be hard pressed to decide between this and a 3rd gen Rx7 for the money.
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    12/08/08

    @Gearhead_42: Damn,$18k for a 3rd jen RX7,didn't realise Japanese cars are so expensive in America.
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    12/08/08

    @layabout couldn't give a f**k: Well, remember that we only got that one 3 years before Fordza yanked it from the US market... I still rank the 3rd gen as one of the most beautiful cars ever made.
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    12/08/08

    @Gearhead_42: Yeah,the RX7 is a beauty. So are US RX7's directly imported as rhd,or were they made lhd for the US?
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    12/08/08

    @layabout couldn't give a f**k: All US RX-7's were left hookers.
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    12/08/08

    @layabout couldn't give a f**k: Well, this one cost 5800 wing-wangs in 1974, when a new Chevy could be had for about $3500. I'd say if the odometer reading is for real, this is a decent price for a museum-quality piece of Japanese steel.
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    12/08/08

    @layabout met the real Santa: I'm struggling to remember if anything has been officially imported to the US as right hand drive.


    Whereas some makers get away with selling only LHD cars to Brits, Japan and the UK basically have to build LHD versions of their cars if they want to have any presence at all in the world market.


    Wait... you guys shift with your left hand? Does that mean it feels like someone else is doing it?

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    12/08/08

    @A strolling player got SMACKed:

    I think the early MG TC was RHD before they sold enough to justify the conversion, and Subaru sold some RHD Legacy wagons in the US for rural mail carriers.
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    12/09/08

    @slowjoecrow: ...and the Daihatsu Charade was also offered here for mail carriers. Like a retard, I passed one up on eBay a few years ago, still kicking myself for that.
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    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    The velour interior is sublime.
    $18.5k seems a little high but not total crackpipe territory.
    Thanks for finding a more challenging NPoCP car, this one is great.
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    12/08/08

    @SlowMo: This one ALMOST seems reasonable by NPoCP standards. Makes you wonder why it has such low mileage. You know, the house that won't sell because everybody knows a mass murder took place there?
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    12/09/08

    @timtoolman: RTFA, bub.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    12/08/08

    In reply to Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 1,427-Mile Mazda RX-4 For $18,500?
    Crackpipe price,but still a cool looking car. It's aged very well.
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