Great find
I've only seen one of them in the past 25 years at a model swap meet, and I bought it! Was about $10 back in '81 or '82 when I found it. They were rare kits when new in the '70's. I primed it and filled a few sink marks, gave it to a rotorhead friend, and got it back last year. Some day I'll build a model of my 1:1 RX4 coupe that I owned from '81-'84 and really wish I still had it. I may also use it as rough patterns to do a major conversion of a '71 Johan Maverick or Comet which is undoubtedly where Mazda got much of their styling ideas from.
I've only ever seen one R100 kit, and bought/gave it to my aforementioned friend who owned the 1:1 and built his kit. He also has most all the 1/20 Bandai rotaries (except the RX4
), including a couple from the '80's (Cosmo coupe and Luce sedan) I bought at a Japanese toy store in LA in the early 80's.
One of these days I'm taking Fujimi's RX3 late model and doing the US spec '77 RX3 SP.
Here's a cool vintage RX3 conversion of the new Fujimi kit I saw that someone showed this past weekend from the big Toledo, Ohio model car show. Car & Driver's Bonneville salt flats racer:
