House search turns up Cosmos

This is probably the first Mazda Cosmo 110S we’ve featured in Barn Finds and we may have a long wait for another one. Most of the 1176 that escaped Mazda’s Hiroshima Plant between 1967 and 1972 remained in Japan, although a few right-hand-drive examples were sold in the UK. It was Mazda’s first sports car and its twin-rotor Wankel engine just beat the NSU Ro80 to become the first rotary unit in production. This home-market example was a one-owner car from new, until it was discovered by Eizi Suzuki.

‘It was delivered in 1971 and the original owner kept it for 47 years. When he died it transferred to his wife’s name, and I rescued it from under the eaves of the house this year. I will try to sell it to cover the restoration expenses of other vehicles.’ Until then it will remain with Eizi in Japan.

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Japanese-found Cosmo has had three owners from new