Young people have no idea …

[tea and ease]

My mom got an RX7 in like 1986. It became my car less than 10 years later. It was fun but man it had so many problems. I literally had to keep pliers in the car to clamp down on a tube to keep the engine from flooding when starting. That worked every time, though. I don't know how we figured that one out in the days before Google. You never knew if it would go or not! So many things overall were wrong with it, outside of that flooding issue. It taught me how awful it is to have an unreliable car. We eventually just donated it after it was broken down in the parking lot of my college apartment. I wonder if a car like that at that time wasn't exactly designed to last more than a few years.

Did yours have bucket seats? How in the world did you get car seats, especially in the 80s, in that thing?

Late to answer so apologies there, but yes, bucket seats in front. Bought a modifier kit to add a "back seat" into that car
to accommodated two car seats in theory. We were young, stupid and didn't want sell to our brand new car. I was pregnant but didn't know until birth it was twins when we bought the RX7.

So we modified it. Which was stupid because my husband had a recent model SAAB, which we sold first to buy the Celebrity Wagon I've spoken of here. So I had the Wagon, he had the Mazda for about a year. Which we sold modified for another SAAB a year later. I just needed a cool car.

Fast forward 16 years, I got that cool car in a Jaguar XJ something. Minstrel Blue. Prettiest car I ever drove and any one driving it looked their best.