well, I put away my summer car for good today
 

it snowed :( this is a sad day. at least i got my snows put on the FRS

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Just use that as your winter beater and save the FRS for when it skyrockets in value!

I don't know about an FRS ever skyrocketing in value, but why would you drive your more expensive car in winter, exposing it to salted snowy roads, instead of the old beater?

For GOOD, or for the Winter?

the value of this car goes up every year, while the FRS goes down, however I do have a beater RX7 that i COULD drive in the winter, i'm saving that for parts

this car was about 12K NEW, and is worth about 7K now, hows that for holding value :)

no beater here, this car is rust free, has never seen salt, and rarely rain, and only has 55K on it, did i mention its from 1984?


i bought the FRS when i also owned an S2000, the FRS was always supposed to be the daily driver/winter car. i've since replaced the S2000 with 2 RX-7's

more expensive to me means nothing, its the rarity, its hard to find a 1st gen RX in this kind of shape, i wouldn't want to ruin that


just for the winter, she will be back when the salt is clear :) in buffalo, when winter comes, it seems like its for good haha

see also, damn near mint interior, only thing that bugs me is the top of the door cards, which i will be re-finishing over the winter

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Never thought for one second that anybody would take that statement serious!

Drove my 03 Lancer through 5 southern Ontario winters (don't get much more salt then we do) and sold it to a guy down the street that has driven it ever since. The car is still pristine and looks like it rolled off the showroom floor yesterday.
So are we saying that Mitsu makes a better car??????
Modern cars don't take the same shit kicken from the weather that vehicles up until the late 80s did.
I can look out my office window this very second and see many 10+ year old cars with no sign of rust.
New paints, metal alloys and rustproofing techniques help make a huge difference in rust resistance.
Is it great for them? Well no, but they won't rot to the door handles in 3 or 4 years like the old ones did either.
Besides it is a <$30K car so if it rusts in 5 years I will throw it away and buy a new one (or something along the same line might be bored with it by then anyway).

i did the same with my 04 STI, bought it with 6K miles, drove the hell out of it in the winter, 5 years later it was still fine, no real rust other than surface rust underneath the car, i buy cars to drive them, unless its a classic, they i drive them when they are nice out, hell I even drove my S2000 in the winter a good bit

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Looks like you may be able to save the material from the panels and just restretch/secure it?
The more original you can keep it the better I would think.

Of course I would never drive that in the winter!

i'm planning on covering the top with something else that matches, its pretty faded and doesn't really match the rest of the interior anymore. though i never thought of just re-stretching it and seeing how it works out, maybe i'll give that a shot

Are they really worth that much? I'm pretty sure I've seen a ton of FCs in fine condition for very little money... I'm talking like $2k-$4k...

Fc's are the bastard child, most people want FB's or FD's, the 1st gens hold their value well if they are mostly stock(no stupid mods) and not rusty, luckily mine is almost stock(a few driveability mods and reliability mods) has no rust, and really low miles. i've already been offered more than 7K for it by a few different people, they just aren't around in this shape anymore

that being said, i bought my first FB rx-7 10 years ago for $100, took me another $300 to get it running, but it was a rust bucket, the values have a wide range based on condition, that and a lot of people just dont realize what they are worth when its a car thats been sitting in a barn for 20 years


here's the current trend for the rx-7 pricing, http://www.hagerty.com/valuationtool...port?vc=864892 nice slow rise since 2007 :) mine isn't perfect, but i'd say its somewhere between a grade 1 and 2

Doesn't the FB not even have independent rear suspension? I guess the FC is less popular because of weight?

Exactly. As much as I love my car I bought it as a DD fully expecting to drive it in the winter. I put 4000 miles a month on it so am not worried about devaluing as it will be worth squat when I go to trade it anyway. Now of course if it was a weekend only, heavily modded or my second or third car that would be a different matter.