The Chainsaw: Early RX-7 Plus Snowmobile Engine Equals Fun…And Tinnitus!

“Well, that was a dumb idea, wasn’t it?” Forget trying to make me feel better after I botched a jump, separated from my dirt bike and augured into the ground like a 160-pound lawn dart. Or that I looked like I had smacked a Japanese Giant Hornet nest with a whiffleball bat but was also stained from head to toe in the juice of a thousand blackberries and that I smelled both earthy and dessert-like. Or that there was a momentary lapse of judgement the second the decision was made to throw a jellyfish at a sibling’s head a tenth of a second before my brain had the chance to find the note card that said, “…but it can sting you, too!” In an age where every boo-boo warrants a trip to the local urgent care clinic and every mistake is a catastrophy, there was that one simple line to smack you upside the head verbally. You had to reflect after that one. Was it dumb? It seemed like a good idea at the time…

Our buddy Kevin is human. Humans make good decisions and bad decisions…that’s just part of the program. His good decisions have led him to a successful career as a YouTuber who gets to spend his days playing with cars in order to financially support himself. We wholeheartedly approve. But let’s talk about those bad decisions for a moment, bud. Flappy-body Ford trucks. A water-logged Triumph so sketch even a tornado tried to intervene. A Nova that looks like a hot dog held too close to a campfire. I might be the “patron saint of automotive lost causes” but Kevin takes it to another level. What most people see as a royally bad call, he views in soft light with Sarah MacLachlan’s “In The Arms Of An Angel” playing in the background. His heartstrings get tugged on and the next thing you know, he’s adopted another one.

As underpowered and relatively harmless as they are by modern standards, first-generation Mazda RX-7s rule. The first gen rotary coupes are wedge-shaped little screamers that weigh in at about three feathered pillows. For their day, they were sprightly enough, posting 0-60 times of about 6.3 seconds and fuel economy that, if you drove it sedately, was pretty fair. If there is one downside: these are virtually extinct on the roads. The last time I saw a daily-driven one was in 1996. Finding one at all is an eye-raiser in 2020. But if you think that the craziest thing about this car is that it exists, then you might want to have a look underneath that extremely funky hood. And while you’ve got the hood open, would you be so kind as to pull-start the engine, please?

Yeah, that’s right. A two-stroke snowmobile engine that’s hard-mounted to the car. Loud? Let’s put it this way: normally we’d be putting up a language warning for this video, but the car does a wonderful job of masking the F-bombs. It’s not like you’ll need him to tell you that this car is f*cking loud.

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