My Italia's story

**—Martin—** · 03-26-2018, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by Roadster7

Martin, your avatar...

Yeah

It's a 2003 E320 with 84,000 miles. It's in very good shape for a 15-year-old car.

**— kung fu jesus —** · 03-26-2018, 03:11 PM

84k?! it's not even broken in yet!

**—atank—** · 03-28-2018, 06:47 PM

My first mod to the Italia.......................

**—atank—** · 03-28-2018, 07:32 PM

So the thing about these Italia headlights that I hate, is------> they are not water tight

.............look at these gaps

Every Italia has the same problem, lets fix this...........

**—atank—** · 03-28-2018, 07:36 PM

Auto weather seal to the rescue....................off with the covers & a good cleaning.

Weather seal applied to each headlight cover.

**—atank—** · 03-28-2018, 07:39 PM

HL covers back on and water tight.....................

**—atank—** · 03-28-2018, 07:43 PM

So another problem with the Italia, typical MazdaRoadster slow \ weak power windows, since I am going with a vintage minimalist build, I am going with manual windows..............

and 1\2 hour later.....................one side done, and out with the LE door cards.................

Too bad the MazdaRoadster market is flooded with LE interior's........lol
Guess I will store mine for 10-20 years in vacuum sealed bags!!!

**—atank—** · 03-28-2018, 07:45 PM

The Italia is going to be a single seater...........so in with my daily driver JDM seat

!!

The Club is overseeing my progress................

**—atank—** · 03-28-2018, 07:53 PM

Going to be installing Vintage Hella Talbot Mirrors next, gotta mark where to mount them, and still use the tonneau snaps..
Background, I was going to utilize the original mirror mounts, but when I took the door cards off, and tried to find the holes, they had been cut out.................and glassed over...........

**—Bryan—** · 03-28-2018, 07:58 PM

I'm curious: how worried about you about fogging now that you've sealed off the headlight areas.

**—atank—** · 03-28-2018, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by Bryan

I'm curious: how worried about you about fogging now that you've sealed off the headlight areas.

Not in the least.........

Plus I have made the exact same mod to several 240z & a couple "Fix It Again Tony's"..........with proven no fog!

**—Bryan—** · 03-28-2018, 08:06 PM

I was just curious, mostly if you treated the glass or anything.

**—atank—** · 03-28-2018, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by Bryan

I was just curious, mostly if you treated the glass or anything.

Three screws and the covers are off if anything needs cleaned, 5 minute job............

**—Bryan—** · 03-28-2018, 09:11 PM

Good point!

**— Phatmiata —** · 03-28-2018, 09:40 PM

I'm sad that Martin sold this car but super happy it is staying in our tight MazdaRoadster community!!

I have that black NA6 dash here for sale if you are swapping out the interior to all black.

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