hey guys welcome back to what's in the band today I've got a very special car
probably one of my favorite Mazda models I've had a couple myself this one is a
really fun example so let's see what's in the band
coming up
beautiful series 178 JDM rx7
all right we're here with Mark and his beautiful 78 series one Savannah GT
absolutely beautiful Matt thanks for coming out thanks pal tell us a bit
about it so you I heard you bought it as a shell yeah bought a bear she'll
probably gone back seven years now yep needed a lot of work just get body
cut off it that sort of thing yep it was rust free which was a bonus
yep and yes slowly pieced about together yep
I can imagine these garden mirrors weren't the easiest to find no I've ever
sought out of Japan yeah at a 50 procced
yeah Yahoo Japan yeah through streeter yep be imported for me yep but um yeah
you can't have a savanna without oh they amaze and makes a mate for sure I love
how you got the stock wheels on mate yeah find a set yeah real ones machined
out to fit over a series to just we're in yep
cleaned up nice yep Oh what sort of bad drama line you got me you go to twelve
oh yeah twelve a bridgie yep yep yep doing they give us a look sure hey Nazi
tyranny
that's a claim right so I got rid of a lot of a wise yeah as much as I could
but yeah a lot of it's still standard cooling systems a bit of an upgrade
commission system yeah coil overs from Ektron yeah not yeah remember right what
couple years ago Polly bought some struts off me to do that conversion yeah
yeah I don't want a hiccup the original series one struts are head these guys
probably don't know if it when you can't ran ahead I think I had four sitting in
there yeah in the shed now got none so like they're savanna Meeker yeah
unfortunately I didn't have many many rare parts but they're all long gone now
everyone's filtered me up the MN beautiful car
yes still trying to piece together some savanna interior yeah obviously you had
nothing when I got it so I noticed on your bill thread online that I think he
painted it yourself yeah gave it a spray up myself
yeah first card painted base base clear yeah I come up alright yep you can't
complain I'm looking at it in person and it's absolutely beautiful mate thanks to
credit especially for you first time yeah it's do you do any more paint job
site hahaha no it's good to have just have a crack yourself and you know just
like Rockies is how you learn yeah on it classic rotary with the weather
yeah yeah being a Kiwi I love me always love you big pulse yeah most emojis babe
yeah no more juice but I've got hot wise for it so this thing no IGAs yeah that's
good to see some of you guys won't know but little things like the body line
rubbers almost impossible to get so it's good that he's got the correct body
rubbers on he's got the Safari mirrors like he just explained is pretty
impossible to get in Australia 78 I believe some 79s were technically like
a Japanese import so we can actually call these JDM because they are they
were made for the Japanese market and you put it into Australia some of the
features were I'll run through it quickly some of the features were JDM
delivered rx-7 take guard mirrors then master australia welded the guards up
and defeated them on the door but if you have a 78 series one you can feel under
your guard and you can probably feel the plate that beaver bobbed or weld it in
some of the little quirks like the bonnet stay you'll see that it connects
up to the bay there I was delivered connects up the other way around till it
latches down here and hooks into your bonnet a couple other little features
that are quite noticeable are the number plate lights they're chrome on JDM
versions and I think just black on a spec all jdms have a badge right down
there again master Australia bought those two little pinholes up but if you
feel actually inside your hatch you should be able to feel two little holes
in there yes so there's a few little quirks instrument classes a bit
different I think they had different interiors which is like hence teeth to
get these days just because yeah I don't know is this really hard the lower lips
were metal so you'll see the Masters have like a little subtle
on the front guards they're all metal I think the later ones could be plastic
but besides that oh yeah the guard guard badges are a bit different
I think you had Sivan and badges only on one guard for some reason yeah yeah feel
the blinkers as well yeah so you've got all the JDM spec fender blinkers and the
actual orange covers in the front bar so I suspect have a combination of orange
and clear and clear yep so you've got the full orange which
is super cool so for the past that you're able to get and stuff you've done
quite well yeah nice long road when you restore one
you can it's almost impossible to find everything exact but how you've done it
with the guard mirrors all the little hints of JDM stuff mate it's a perfect
career it's a real credit to you man congratulations thank you very much
beautiful car and a lot of people that know me know that I love Series one rx-7
so this is probably like a build like this is probably something that I would
do spot on and have this like my car that I keep in my dream car we're just
talking about that before that all in mind building another JDM version so
it's a real cool to have have you in today man
thank you I get to see one that's really well done sorry so yeah we're going to
whack a camera in the car and then we're gonna take you down the beach because
it's a beautiful Melbourne day or something and do a couple cinematics and
stuff like that and give you guys a very sound of the mighty Bridgeport you
reckon one day you will turn to the dark side like rocky right maybe maybe
Kiwis love their ports I'm surprised it's not like monster or yeah I've got
the peepee in the shed yeah they love their 10k ships all right I'm gonna end
this here let's give you one last look alright next I will be cruising
my mother doesn't like against testify
you know you can
don't be in a state register but I can see well yeah you gave to me had he hit
on hearts three Savannah cook yeah hopefully original just beautiful and
after I took every control