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A radical Japanese supercar which debuted in 1970 and was shown a year later at the 1971 Tokyo Motor Show. Gotta love the gullwing doors (butterfly)

The RX 500 was the ultimate dream supercar that struck awe in the hearts of a multitude of car fans around the world in the 1970s. The RX 500 was an innovative futuristic, mid engine rotary concept that was a proper working prototype with interesting mechanicals.
The Mazda RX-500 concept was a 247-hp, 1,873lb rotary-powered supercar that featured forward-swinging butterfly-wing passenger doors as well as gullwing engine-access doors on the breadvan truck.

The engine was heralded as being a production 12A, probably because the 12A engine was having its introduction in the Capella that same year. The RX-500 joined a 250hp 10A from a Familia race car and the front-wheel-drive's RX-87 Luce transaxles. The engine was not a production version, but a racing unit that was fed by a large downdraught Weber with a pair of equally huge velocity stacks. The engine is a 250hp peripheral ported 10A from the Familia racing program joined to a RX87 Luce transaxle.

Following the 1970 Show, much in the fashion of concept cars, the RX-500 was packed away and nearly forgotten. Until July of 2008, thirty years later, where the restoration was completed recently and went on exhibit in August at the Hiroshima City Transport Museum. Hisahiro Akimasa approached Mazda and received its blessing to restore and exhibit the RX500. Not an easy task by far, the restoration work was carried out at a garage in Hiroshima. The purpose was to ‘reflect the forty years of history in the car'.

From www.conceptcarz.com (No copyright infringement intended) Thank you

all done in pen and black markers and took 5 hours to do

Description
A radical Japanese supercar which debuted in 1970 and was shown a year later at the 1971 Tokyo Motor Show. Gotta love the gullwing doors (butterfly)

The RX 500 was the ultimate dream supercar that struck awe in the hearts of a multitude of car fans around the world in the 1970s. The RX 500 was an innovative futuristic, mid engine rotary concept that was a proper working prototype with interesting mechanicals.
The Mazda RX-500 concept was a 247-hp, 1,873lb rotary-powered supercar that featured forward-swinging butterfly-wing passenger doors as well as gullwing engine-access doors on the breadvan truck.

The engine was heralded as being a production 12A, probably because the 12A engine was having its introduction in the Capella that same year. The RX-500 joined a 250hp 10A from a Familia race car and the front-wheel-drive's RX-87 Luce transaxles. The engine was not a production version, but a racing unit that was fed by a large downdraught Weber with a pair of equally huge velocity stacks. The engine is a 250hp peripheral ported 10A from the Familia racing program joined to a RX87 Luce transaxle.

Following the 1970 Show, much in the fashion of concept cars, the RX-500 was packed away and nearly forgotten. Until July of 2008, thirty years later, where the restoration was completed recently and went on exhibit in August at the Hiroshima City Transport Museum. Hisahiro Akimasa approached Mazda and received its blessing to restore and exhibit the RX500. Not an easy task by far, the restoration work was carried out at a garage in Hiroshima. The purpose was to ‘reflect the forty years of history in the car'.

From www.conceptcarz.com (No copyright infringement intended) Thank you

all done in pen and black markers and took 5 hours to do