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    MEET THE CONVERT

    Jul 21, 2021 8 minutes
    WORDS ★ PHOTOS JAMES SECHER

    THE CARS

    ’02 CV8 MONARO

    Owned since 2017

    Kms 28,700

    ’94 SKYLINE GTR

    Owned since 2018

    Kms 167,083

    ’80 HDT VC

    Owned since 2017

    Kms 104,000

    ’79 KINGSWOOD

    Owned since 1982

    Kms 361,491

    ’76 MAZDA 929

    Owned since 2020

    Kms 42,176

    1990 VN SS

    Owned since 2015

    Kms 105,000

    ’89 MERCEDES 300SEL

    Owned since 2019

    Kms 249,000

    ’79 RS2000

    Owned since 2012

    Kms 139,083

    MY LOVE affair with rotaries started back when I was 14 years old, riding shotgun in my brothers Commodore there was a small white sedan driving alongside us in traffic making all sorts of wild noises, it was loud and obnoxious, I turned to my brother and said “what is that!?” He said, “That’s a rotary mate.” He couldn’t tell me much more about them, other than they were loud, fast and rev like crazy. I was intrigued and needed to know more about them.

    I headed straight to the newsagents and found a whole magazine devoted to these wild Japanese machines and I proceeded to read it cover to cover again and again, until I got my hands on the next issue and the next and so on, I was hooked!

    Ever since Mazda embraced the Wankel engine in the early 60s, they have been a pure enthusiast car and somewhat of an outlier in the automotive community. I’ve always had

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