1st RX-7 to make it to Cherohala Skyway Overlook

[My5ABaby]

It's a pre-production FC made in 1985. It was originally given to a factory racer for Mazda (Holly knows his name, I forget now), who could not register it in California. He sold it to Jim Downing in 2001 (?) who was able to register it and drive it. It has been mostly garaged or under a cover its whole life. As seen in one of the pictures it has about 17,000 miles on it.

It has a mis-mosh of FB and FC parts (note the dizzy) and seems to be similar to a Euro spec FC (tail light design, dizzy, etc.). There is a weird exhaust tube, possibly for afterburn? The interior has some strange features also. There was a weird button on the passenger and driver side (pictures is passenger). I did not push it, but I'm guessing it's for the headlight squirters. If you look on production S4s (and maybe S5s) there's a dash indentation there but nothing there. Picture 2 shows how the intake hose went down lower near the airbox than on S4s. It's a small difference but noticable (at least in person, pics not a good angle).