MetalMat
Diamond Member
Lets start from the beginning. Originally I bought the car in September 2001 right after my Mitsubishi Mirage (The hot tamale) had a freak accident. I bought it for around 1,400 It was an awesome car and lasted me for quite a while with very little problems.
However, 2 years later in early septmber 2003 a bunch of bad stuff happened in one week. A tree fell on the windshield and busted it up, A rock hit the drivers side window and shattered it, and worse of all the compression on my enginer went kaput (stupid APEX seals). However I loved the car and wanted to try and fix it, so instead of junking it I parked it at my friends house and worked on it during my free time. In october 2003 I bought a van for 500$ nicknamed "VanterA", which to this day I am still driving.
Fastforward to March 2004. We finally got the RX7 to start! However, it was not idling at all and we had to hold the gas down all the time while we drove it around. At this time though, I was pretty broke, very busy with school, and decided to let my friend Rob take over the RX duties for a while.
Fastforward to June 2005. At this point I had not seen the rx7 for about 6 months, because a tarp was placed over it and it was just chilling in Robs yard while we worked on his 1979 RX7 Rob's RX7. Anyways, my friend Ant comes up to me one day and asks to buy my car. I tell him exactly what is wrong with it, and since he is a good friend I sell it too him for cheap under the condition that I can drive it around when it is fixed This thread is involved with my decision to sell the car to him.
Enter July 2005, Ant finally does some work on the rx-7 but first has to get rid of the bees. Not knowing how many there were he puts on a bunch of fencing gear with blankets so he wont get stung. He said that as soon as he touched the tarp it started vibrating like crazy. He removed it and there was a huge honeycomb on the drivers side with an a$$ load of bees! Here is a pic of about just a quarter of what was there BEES!!!!!! Anyways, after a while he founf out that the bees were not stinging (I guess these honey bees were dumb or something) so he and Rob kicked the hive down and honey went everywhere! Here are some more pics:
Honey comb on the floor
After a bunch of the hive was kicked
Current picture of car as of July 2005
Anyways, so far so good. I hope Ant can get it running and in good shape :beer:
However, 2 years later in early septmber 2003 a bunch of bad stuff happened in one week. A tree fell on the windshield and busted it up, A rock hit the drivers side window and shattered it, and worse of all the compression on my enginer went kaput (stupid APEX seals). However I loved the car and wanted to try and fix it, so instead of junking it I parked it at my friends house and worked on it during my free time. In october 2003 I bought a van for 500$ nicknamed "VanterA", which to this day I am still driving.
Fastforward to March 2004. We finally got the RX7 to start! However, it was not idling at all and we had to hold the gas down all the time while we drove it around. At this time though, I was pretty broke, very busy with school, and decided to let my friend Rob take over the RX duties for a while.
Fastforward to June 2005. At this point I had not seen the rx7 for about 6 months, because a tarp was placed over it and it was just chilling in Robs yard while we worked on his 1979 RX7 Rob's RX7. Anyways, my friend Ant comes up to me one day and asks to buy my car. I tell him exactly what is wrong with it, and since he is a good friend I sell it too him for cheap under the condition that I can drive it around when it is fixed This thread is involved with my decision to sell the car to him.
Enter July 2005, Ant finally does some work on the rx-7 but first has to get rid of the bees. Not knowing how many there were he puts on a bunch of fencing gear with blankets so he wont get stung. He said that as soon as he touched the tarp it started vibrating like crazy. He removed it and there was a huge honeycomb on the drivers side with an a$$ load of bees! Here is a pic of about just a quarter of what was there BEES!!!!!! Anyways, after a while he founf out that the bees were not stinging (I guess these honey bees were dumb or something) so he and Rob kicked the hive down and honey went everywhere! Here are some more pics:
Honey comb on the floor
After a bunch of the hive was kicked
Current picture of car as of July 2005
Anyways, so far so good. I hope Ant can get it running and in good shape :beer:
