In North America, talking about early 1970s Mazda pickups will include an assumption on the part of most car nuts that you are talking about the Rotary-Engined Pickup, known as REPU among its fans. Due to their competition history, and being the only rotary-engined pickup ever built, they have a relatively high survival rate (for an old compact truck) and are prized by fans. But what many of those people may not know is that Mazda also sold a standard internal-combustion engined pickup, the B-series, which lasted until 2009 as a badge-engineered Ford Ranger. The second generation model was introduced in 1965, and this 1972 Mazda B1600 is available in Clackamas, OR, with the opening bid at $1200, no bites yet, and 5 1/2 days to go.
Archive for September, 2013
The ICEPU – 1972 Mazda B1600
September 17, 2013Change Your Name To Mikkola – 1988 Mazda 323 GTX
September 17, 2013Mazda was one of few manufacturers to sell a World Rally Championship homologation model in the US market – the lack of interest in the WRC here being the main reason other participants like VW and Subaru did not sell their homologation specials here. Although for more money you could also get the Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 or a Toyota Celica AllTrac Turbo, this remains the most affordable and (anecdotally) most common of these cars. Find this 1988 Mazda 323 GTX Turbo for sale in Fairfax, VA with bidding at $1652 and only 8 1/2 hours to go.
The Anti-E30 – 1987 Maserati BiTurbo Si
September 16, 2013The BMW E30 3-series of 1983-91 is currently filling the niche of affordable used sports sedan. However, in the time before Mercedes was trying to be both sporty *and* luxurious, and before Lexus and Infiniti were a glint in their Daddies’ eyes, there still was some competition, however feeble. And two of those competitors were Italian – the more fully-developed Alfa Romeo Milano, and the somewhat quality-challenged Maserati BiTurbo. This 1987 BiTurbo Si is available in Shingle Springs, CA with bidding at $2475 and only 2 1/2 days left to go.


