Cash for clunkers was hard on the rotary cars! Great cars, but at the time they were not worth much with a dead rotary.
My interest in the rotary led to building a home grown 4 rotor engine back in the early 90's, it was basically two 13b 2 rotor engines bolted together. Also built a wedge style dirt latemodel to put it in...
More pics and info on the 4 rotor car here...
https://grannys.tripod.com/4rotor.html
Also had a few engineless RX-7's laying at the time, which led to this...
More pics and info on the RX-7 here...
https://members.tripod.com/~grannys/20102.html
Grant