BCR2FD

Hi FD owners and enthusiasts.
I've always believed that a missing piece of the FD community is an online vehicle registry to showcase the remaining examples of the quintessential 90s Japanese sports car.
Today I pull back the curtain on the RX-7 FD Registry.
Please check it out and get your car listed. Share the link with friends and other owners and let's get as many cars registered.
The site is a work in progress. Thanks in advance for your input and feedback.

Cheers and Happy New Year to everyone!
https://www.rx7fdregistry.com/proper...-black-r2-0192
This is my car.
(haha, I just realized that the back button doesn't work on this link....oh well!)
Shawn

EREBUS

This is awesome, I would love to see as many people as possible on board with this.

Neo

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Only 6 vehicles registered so far. As soon as I can get to my full desktop, I’ll sign up.
surprised to see an automatic there. Lots of originals still. 👍🏻

c0rbin9

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This is a really great idea and has been needed for way too long... kudos for taking the initiative.

BCR2FD

Agreed that something like this is overdue. I've thought for the past dozen years that we needed something like this. It's taken me longer than I expected to get this put together and it evolved to be better than I imagined actually. We need all of the users of the forum to register to build the most thorough registry as possible!

cloud9

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Evolution of the initiative in my signature. Very nice.

BCR2FD

Did you see the map?
https://www.rx7fdregistry.com/map
From the registry it auto populates based on Google Map data. It's generic (city based) so that as the registry grows there will be a record of vehicles by city/state/area.
It would be nice to get your registrants to add their data to the registry.
Cheers

Neo

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As promised, I registered.

DaleClark

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I'm in . Need to find a picture of some kind.

Dale

Sgtblue

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If I’m not an investment owner or considering selling it…what’s the purpose of a registry other than curiosity?
And is this one differenti than the other one?
—-> https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-gen-gene...please-388436/

BCR2FD

Hey thanks for registering everyone! Great detail on the mods and your stories about purchasing your cars. It's exactly this kind of timeline and historical record that I'm hoping to chronicle and archive. Having a recorded archive of these vehicles will help preserve and enhance value!

BCR2FD

Early this year I purchased Mazdaspeed Miata in Lava Orange. The Lava Oranga Mazdaspeed was only produced in 2005 and only 396 were produced. There is a Lava Orange Mazdaspeed registry online here with history, pics and details on the vehicle. I immediately felt connected to a community. Michael who runs the registry was a goldmine of information, suggestions and advice to assist me in making my purchase. He even found a 2013 video of the vehicle that I purchased, from a Boise ID car lot selling the vehicle at that time. He's been able to put me in touch with the 2 other Lava Oranga Mazdaspeeds in my general vicinity and since then we've met, gone for a drive and had coffee. We're now connected and can communicate when needed.
Anyhow, with respect to the FD community, we all know that our vehicles are special. They are unique, and you see fewer and fewer of them around. How many are left? Well, unless a serious effort is made to try to find, detail and register as many as possible, we won't know.
We own these vehicles because they have some special meaning for us, right? I mean, if it was just about transportation and reliability, we probably wouldn't be hanging onto our complicated almost 30 year old rotary powered mistresses. What's the purpose? Well, the registry I've put together allows us to share all of the foundational details about our cars (model, trim, options) but also more of what drives our passion, namely the modifications we've made, the stories about our car that we want to share, and importantly pictures.
How is this one different than the registry you mentioned set up by Railgun? Well that is simply a list. It is a good first effort but without it being a website per se, it's not crawled by Google so searchability is nil. There are no photos and the data entry isn't consistent or enforced.
I would think that anyone active on these forums has some high-octane fuel running through their veins and isn't necessarily an FD investor, flipper or with an exit strategy on their car but they do enjoy discussing, sharing and being part of the community. That's the reason for the registry.

Montego

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Interesting. I was under the impression that all USDM FD's are twin turbo, have the same power output (no matter the trim), came with indistinguishable badging, and therefore they are all performance models. Even the automatics... So I take it this registry is a count of R cars vs everything else because if one breaks down production numbers per trim they are all on the low side:

PEP auto = 36
Base auto = 535
Touring auto = 1414
PEP manual = 1209
Base manual = 2116
R = 2117
Touring manual = 5961

Turns out any given year the Base cars whether they were auto or manual had the lowest production numbers.

Manny_Apex

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Registered!

BCR2FD

By default getting as many cars registered will document the overall numbers remaining and their current state. The examples of the R cars used in the intro for the Registry is only intended to highlight how rare these cars were at time of production. Now that almost 30 years have passed, it's really anyone's guess about how many remain for each trim type.

BCR2FD

Love it Manny! She's a beauty. Thanks for registering!

madhat1111

I tried doing mine, but it doesn't like my JDM vin.

Redbul

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Same here. Need some RHD love.

c0rbin9

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A lot more registrations recently... nice to see the activity.

BCR2FD

For sure. We need the mods to make the registry info a sticky here so that this thread doesn't just get buried.

Railgun

Much like any other cars that have become or are becoming a rarity, it's a nice to have to keep track of any remaining vehicles. I'd argue the uniqueness of this platform, its status in history, its still relevant appeal, and now its increase in value are all the perfect reasons to keep track. @BCR2FD hit me up around the start of his project. I would have liked to help him more than I did, but as he said...

...keeping in mind I started that thread 18 years ago. I'm not a web designer. It was my basic attempt to at least start to get something going. Someone not long after had attempted to do a far better job than I, but didn't last long. I'm hoping that over time this new site can grow with all the relevant info needed to suit a registry, even grow beyond the USDM. Even if you're NOT an investment owner, the point is there is some history/tracking of the car for nothing more than heritage for lack of a better term.

Needless to say there's a disparity between the thread and the site in that there are far more vehicles in that list than the site. At the same time, I'd be willing to bet that, insofar as owner info, that list is probably 20% accurate at best.

@BCR2FD I'm happy that you were able to get this going. I thought I did register on there once upon a time, but seems I didn't. I'll get on that.

BCR2FD

Hey there, thanks for following up. The site has been live and active for about a year now. There are close to 100 registered cars. I haven't devoted any time to promotion and that's really what needs to happen. I think that the site is pretty decent. Please give any feedback. I'm disappointed that the site hasn't gained more traction. Maybe people don't see any value in it? Who knows.

Redbul

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100 is pretty good actually.

Redbul

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Here is the link again.

https://www.rx7fdregistry.com/proper...-black-r2-0192

TwinCharged RX7

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Doesn't work for me