Forget your polite British roadster fantasies—this Sunbeam Alpine is not here to sip tea and discuss the weather. Nope, this one’s been possessed by a Mazda 13B rotary and screams like a chainsaw at a bee convention. Backed by a 5-speed manual and a narrowed 9-inch Ford rear end, it’s basically a Tiger that spent […]
This next car comes as a tip from Rock On who writes: Not my first choice for a rotary engine! I think that isn’t entirely fair, because I think that a lightweight British classic 2-door convertible IS the right car for a rotary swap because the torqueless spinny wonder is properly matched to something without […]
File this next car under: Tell me the e-brake doesn’t work without telling me the e-brake doesn’t work. Oh yeah, also put a note in the file that says something like: Tell me about an awesome engine swap but don’t include a single photo of said engine swap. Find this 1974 BMW 2002 with Mazda […]
The second generation Mazda RX-7 was known as the FC and over 270,000 examples were built in Japan from 1985-1991 for worldwide consumption. The FC was, of course, powered by a Wankel rotary engine and featured the athletic reflexes matched by few cars in the 1980s. If you can live the eccentricities of the odd […]
This next car comes as a tip from JB1025 who writes: Just don’t see many of these from the mid 70’s too bad for the automatic but owner has a 5 speed to go for extra green $$$$$. Personally, I think it is funny how much these look like the similar vintage Isuzu I-Mark. Find this 1976 […]
The Toyota Starlet KP61 generation was the first and only Starlet sold in the US Market and in 1985 it was replaced by the Toyota Corolla FX-16. Unfortunately, the FX-16 that replaced it was a front drive un-fun box, but the Starlet was setup with proper rear wheel drive…not that you could tell with the 3 […]
Over here on “this” side of the Pacific Ocean, it is easy to associate the Wankel rotary engine with Mazda’s sweet RX-7 sports coupe…but over in the land of the rising sun, there were a few other cars that got the spinning apex seal roaster, like the Eunos. Find this 1991 Mazda Eunos Cosmo offered […]
You know what is my favorite combination of attributes for a classic car? Fast, loud, & rusty? Nope. Close, but no. My favorite is rarely scene (rare and rarely scene aren’t the same thing…), common parts, and reasonable price. This next car hits those points because — when was the last time you saw an […]
I’ve been really blessed in my life, so I try really hard not to make fun of others who maybe haven’t been. But sometimes a tipper sends something in that presents so much gold that it makes it really hard. Find this “Bad @$$ little kit Car custom GT-40 w/mazda RX-7” for sale in Vancouver, […]
Remember when Mazda purchased the rights to build the Volkswagen Beetle and started shoving 13B rotary engines into version that were setup from the factory as Baja racers, and then Donald Trump was sworn in as president. Wait…that stuff didn’t happen? It was just a dream. But you were there…and you…and you… Find this 1969 […]