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Back in July last year we were able to secure this 2004 Type A coupe from Japan. Normally a damaged car like this would not interest us but our guy in Japan was able to do a full inspection on the car.





Eventually it got to Australia and we stripped it our for a full inspection




This inspection revealed the r/h chassis rail had pushed back into the drivers compartment.

At this point it was decided to do a \"sectionalised repair\" by splitting the car at the front join and fitting a new front to it.

A donor car was found in a 2003 NB2 that had been rolled.




Then it was a matter of cutting and joining...........





then as they say in the technical books........ refitting is the reverse of removal....



engine in


We will keep you posted as the car is finished off..........

wow, some of these threads have really put me off buying second hand cars
that said if I had an mx5 coupe offered to me with that damage I would probably go down the same route

keep us updated it looks like an great project

Hi all,

Many thanks for your phone calls, emails and PM's regading this project. Glad to know you are all as excited as we are to get it finished!!!

Have had some time to do a bit more work over the last few days and the cars is now up and running again and driveable.

Engine is back in and running.



dash back in and functioning ok.



Now back off to the panel shop to have the painting finished and then the final refit.

Hot damn... I'm waiting for the day when I see this in the flesh.

Incidentally, what're you doing with the NB8A rims from the donor car?

marcusus wrote:Hot damn... I'm waiting for the day when I see this in the flesh.

Incidentally, what're you doing with the NB8A rims from the donor car?

They're not NB8A rims, they're from the 2002 model year auto, same design but smooth clearcoated finish

Caffeine wrote:They're not NB8A rims, they're from the 2002 model year auto, same design but smooth clearcoated finish

Really? Intriguing...

Pity these things are so rare, because I'd love to see that as a race car.