This is the long drawn out story of David Orlo (V8kilr on the RX7 Forums) and the Mazda RX-7.

I received my drivers license at the age of 18 in 1998. My mom took me shopping for a used car on a strict budget of $750, The reason I didn’t get my license until I was 18 and the reason for the strict budget was the fact that all of this was coming directly out of my own pocket. My parents wouldn’t pay for anything including my license so I had to do it on my own. We shopped around for a few days and I thought it was hopeless because I couldn’t find a single thing that wasn’t a big boat from the 70′s or a worn out Ford Tempo. In a last ditch effort i decided to check out the stock at a couple junk yards and there she was, a 1984 GSL Brown on Brown.

At the time I thought I was getting a V6 and didn’t learn it was a rotary until I actually got it home and started working on it.

Eventually the rear end blew out in that car due to lack of rear end fluid and I bought another, This second RX was a 1983 or 84 GS that I painted primer grey and then primer black. I believe this was the same RX7 I drove to Jeremy’s house in Kentucky where I bought my 4th RX7 to part out. My 3rd RX-7 was a 1986 GXL fully loaded blue on blue which I picked up from a low budget used car dealer. The car didn’t run and needed a new computer which at the time I didn’t know when I purchased it for a meager $200.

When I came back from Kentucky I sold the 1986 RX7 because the water pump went and it started overheating which caused internal engine damage. I purchased a 1984 GSL Brown on Brown Leather in great condition for an incredibly low ball price due to the fact it wasn’t running. I had a trick up my sleeve though because I knew I didn’t hear the fuel pump which meant the fuel relay was shot. After I purchased the car I simply clipped the relay wire and drove it home. I later sold the black primer RX7 and kept the Brown 84 for a daily driver.

From here some of the other purchases become hazy, I purchased a 1990 GXL Blue on Blue which I restored to near mint condition, This was the second to last RX7 that I sold in 2003. While I owned that car I purchased another 1990 GXL Blue on Blue for parts. I purchased a 1983 and a 1984 for parts on an 83 RX7 that I was restoring. A good friend of mine was able to find the most beautiful non-modified 1990 GXL I have ever seen, it was Red on Black interior with 40k original miles. He blew it up in the first week with Nitrous because he is a jackass so I bought it for parts. I kept the Brown 84 GSL as my test bed for parts I was making such as ignition systems and EFI conversion kits, it was the last RX7 I sold in 2003.

After I sold all my RX7′s and parts I still had the 1983 I was restoring. I purchased one last Second Gen for the motor in late 2003. I didn’t want to sell my last 2 RX7′s and because I sold them in December I took a huge kick to the nuts on the price. I told myself I would never buy an RX7 again.

If you have been keeping count thats 11 RX7′s in 5 years, more than 2 a year.

Skip ahead to present day 2010, My wife was talking to a co-worker one day about a car he wanted to get rid of. He said it was an RX-7 and it caught my wifes attention. My wife and I have been together since 1999 So she knows the whole RX7 story and my history with them. After talking to this co-worker and sharing my story with him he decides I can have the car for free. This way I get to own another RX7 and can stick to my word of never buying one again.

So there it is, now you know the history behind David Orlo and Mazda RX7′s. You can check out the 1988 2nd Gen GTU that was given to me in the Projects section.

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