Compared to yesterdays RX7 this bone stock Cosmo may look a bit dull. Outside Japan it was sold as the Mazda 929 with a 2 liter piston engine and the 929s from Germany and Switzerland are currently flooding the Netherlands, and this Cosmo HB does feature the Rotary Turbo!
You can also enjoy a Japanese cover of France Gall’s Poupee de cire, Poupee de son (actually Serge Gainsbourg wrote that for her) and imagine you are driving through the Japanese landscape yourself. A added benefit is that the whining rotary actually makes the song even more enjoyable! 😉
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This Luce Cosmo (HB platform) is placed in a Beverly Hills surrounding with an American license plate. I’ve seen this advertising trick more often with these old commercials. Were the Japanese thinking that when a car had an American license plate and a sunny Californian setting it would be with loved by the Americans? Or has Amercian approval? Or had American style?
For sure this Luce Cosmo never made it to the US at all!
And I love the Kossumoo! at the end! 🙂
Maybe not as rare as the rusty Cosmo collection but this Skyline DR30 collection is equally rusty and extensive!
Skyline DR30 rustoseum collection
The Fairlady Z Z30 appears to be a bit out of place here…
Found at [R31 House @ Minkara]
When I was looking fo pictures of rusty Ultraman’s Cosmo when I wrote about the Mazda Cosmo wreckyard I came across this Ultraman Cosmo FAIL:
Ultraman car FAIL
WTF?! That doesn’t look like a Cosmo! Not even a Mazda! It is a 911!
Here another picture from the side of the Porsche:
Ultraman car FAIL
Found at [SkullBrain]
What is the chance you find two Mazda Cosmos together? One out of a billion?
So what is the chance you will see seven together?
Mazda Cosmo scrapyard
I thought the Cosmo rustoseum photo I posted a year ago (mother of all rustoseum posts!) was a single incident, but apparently there were more!
According to the photographer, Komin, there were about 10 Cosmo wrecks. Only 1,519 Cosmos were (hand)built by Mazda, so imagine what this Cosmo scrapyard could possibly be worth for a collector/restorer!
Hat tip to Gred for finding this gem!
Picture originated from [Komin’s photo blog] (Check it out: very interesting and beautiful pictures!)
Apparently I was wrong that you can only find a Mazda Cosmo down on the street in Japan!
Mazda Cosmo rustoseum
Apparently not all Cosmos have found their way to museums yet!
I found this picture here!