Tokyo Drift Veilside Mazda RX-7 Up For Auction

Turn your brain off for a couple of hours – no, no, all the way off – and revel in the sideways storyline of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. It’s still reasonably entertaining nearly 20 years on, and actually, there’s more legit street racing than in any other entry in this franchise.

The plot is arguably awful, but mercifully straightforward. And, ignoring the whole winner gets me approach to dating that’s being championed for… some reason, the stunt work is pretty impressive too. There’s also a ton of glorious performance machines on screen, one of which – Han’s Veilside-prepped Mazda RX-7 – is up for auction at this weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.

This particular RX-7 – chassis FD3S111461 – is one of only two surviving models specifically commissioned for the 2006 movie, and could go for anything between $400,000 and $600,000 (that’s a price you can live with, right?). Further details on the Bonhams Auction lot can be found here.

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Hero Car Features Veilside ‘Fortune’ Wide Body Kit

Rather than being assigned for stunts and drift sequences – over 250 vehicles were used during Tokyo filming, more than 80 of which ended up being totaled – this particular RX-7 was a hero model used for close-ups. So, when Han meets Sean outside the school for the first time? Or for pretty much any close-up of Han in or near the car? Chances are, it was this very vehicle about to cross the auction block.

Overhauled by Japanese bodykit specialist Veilside and company founder Hironao Yokomaku, pretty much everything on this 1992 Mazda RX-7, save the roof and hatch, was stripped out to make way for a Fortune widebody kit that added almost eight inches to the car’s width. It was then finished in pearlescent orange with high-gloss black accenting, because, lest we forget, when you live your life a quarter-mile at a time – even if that’s mostly done sideways – there’s no time for subtlety. The Fortune RX-7 rolls on Andrew Premier Series Racing Evolution 5 19-inch wheels, clad with performance P Zero Nero tires. Ironically though, Toyo Tires actually provided most of the rubber for production.

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Inside, Veilside has installed bucket seats and an unhinged smorgasbord of trim (aluminum, chrome, velour, vinyl, etc.) alongside a beefed-up Alpine sound system with multiple loudspeakers. Look closely at the passenger door and the scuttle, and you’ll notice several #71 HANS labels from Universal’s production crew in reference to the Mazda’s titular owner.

Sorry, No NOS

Under the engine bay, meanwhile, the Mazda’s twin-turbocharged rotary has been rebuilt by Japanese tuner RE-Amemiya, and produces around 280 horsepower. It’s not bad, given that the entire build weighs less than 2,315 pounds. There’s also a polished NOS bottle mounted above the driveshaft tunnel, but since we all know what happened to Dom Toretto in the first film, this has been disconnected.

Since its time on the Tokyo set, this Veilside RX-7 has received a brand-new clutch, and an overhaul of the brakes, the coil-over suspension, and the exhaust system. Understandable, given that 66,785 miles have rolled beneath those, presumably, well-worn Pirellis since it left the Mazda factory.

Source: Bonhams Auction