This year, I decide not to tag along because I can’t shoot and drive the M3 at the same time. It looks great! Onto NYCįrom our special meetup in northern New Jersey, many head into New York City for some photo ops. The holiest of BMW M cars, on Japanese wheels. Of all the Eclipses, the second gen is the best looking. A 370Z with rally lights is not something you might see every day. It’s given an easy platform for so many to jump into the scene. The Mirage, or Colt, is probably more rare than a 3000GT at this point. These exhaust outlets are actually fake, but the sound is real. “Sacrilege!” you say? I think it’s just plain cool. “Stock” JDM Silvias and 240SXs are pretty much impossible to find. DSM cars are becoming so rare, only a single second-gen Eclipse was there. Shout out goes to the lone 3000GT (I always find one), and random 90’s Mitsubishi Mirages at the show. By the way, if you want to know which NSX is cool and which isn’t, ask how many new ones were there (zero). The typical Subie and Evo team take over a section, and expect plenty of Honda power. ![]() ![]() Nissan Z cars, mostly of 350 and 370 vintage, also stop by. Plenty of Nissan Skylines, including the vaunted R34 (not yet road legal), show up. What else shows up at 7’s Day?Įverything, Imagine stepping into the garage of Grand Turismo, and you get the idea. They tell me these Mazdaspeed wheels are impossible to find. We first met up at a local mall, then traveled up to northern New Jersey for a show before the show. I can’t say I blame the show runners for setting it up that way to avoid the nonsense that can come with these types of events. If you’re hyper-local, you’ll know where the spots are from my images, but it remains invitation-only. This year, the show started with various meet up points throughout the tri-state. Like all your best buds celebrating your b-day, the RX remains the focal point, but so many exotic machines show up. It’s grown beyond a showcase of RXs and become a full on import show. And while 7’s Day happens all over the country, in NYC it’s particularly eventful. After all, at the Fall Cruise it’s usually just BMWs, and most brand shows keep to themselves. We could end this article here and call it good. ![]() Some heavily modded cars add to the variety on display. These always pop up, even though they aren’t legal yet. Fast and Furious may have made that orange Supra famous, but Dom’s ride of choice was an RX. Still, the car generated a cult following, and the last FD generation was particularly popular. It’s why you might more commonly see an RX-7 with an LS V-8 engine in it. The rotary burns oil as a natural byproduct of the way it works, making it tougher to maintain than a Supra of the same era. While reliability wasn’t always part of the package with 90’s Japanese coupes, the RX-7 was particularly bad. Though Mazda didn’t invent it (a German names Henry Wankel had that honor), they were the only major auto maker to embrace it. A Japanese sports coupe with the same level of fame as Nissan’s Z, the RX-7 was powered by a rotary engine. Then concept behind 7’s Day is simple celebrate the Mazda RX-7 (and hi to you also, RX-8). But what is 7’s Day, and why is it by invitation only? I’ll show you. There was just one thought I had running through my head while shooting at 7’s Day in New York City “ Why can’t the 3000GT have a day like this?” That’s misleading, the GT does have some special events, but nothing like this.
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