JayME's 83 Starion

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Post by JayME »

Id like to restore the grandparents old one and keep it factory. Its going to take a fair bit of work.

At a glance I need new bonnet, nose cone, possibly gaurds and doors plus new steel welded in the roof. The underside and boot look ok. Time will tell once I start stripping it down.

Im doing panel and paint on the other one as time allows so this will remain priority for now (getting married next year and I want it to be a wedding car). This one will eventually have some more power extracted from it and some braking and handling mods.
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Starions that got those wheels here mean they were part of the sport option package... = LSD!!

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Some pics taken today with my cousins SR20DET motivated RA23 Celica

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Post by Lunacy »

Very cool pics :)
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Post by FST4RD »

Looks nice!
I didn't think that you could get that far up the porthills?
How far round can you get?
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they have signs up, when we were running my mates supra in we just drove round em
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Post by perrinsohc »

Nice pics, Starions looking good mate. That celica must pull hard up those hills. Its good that you can still get to the sugar loaf car park. Good wee drive
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Nice cars. Gotta sling that exhaust up some more, she's hanging down a lot.
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enthuzed wrote:Nice cars. Gotta sling that exhaust up some more, she's hanging down a lot.
Yea I want to redo the exhaust and go for something a little more subtle one day but I've recently become a poor student again . . . .

Plus its actually certified for its noise output so if I change anything it will mean more $$ to get that redone again (although the noise certification seems like a complete waste of time anyway)
FST4RD wrote:Looks nice!
I didn't think that you could get that far up the porthills?
How far round can you get?
We just went up from Columbo street - it is still closed a bit further along however
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Post by MainstreaM »

Just saw a pic of your car over on 1stgencelica.com, I like it.

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Post by JayME »

Starion looked kinda shiney in this pick so thought I'd post it up - back on factory wheels (for warrent reasons :p)

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kinda fitting that the trailer is rocking some stock 80s era Mitsubishi rims, am thinking early Cordia Turbo or Magna.
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Post by JayME »

Tried to get motivated and start tidying up the worst of the paintwork on my Starion today (after seeing what Prozac has done in such a short time :P)

On the to do list at this stage are the bumpers, front nose cone/skirt and bottom of the front gaurds. Ideally I would respray the whole car but don't really have the time or inclination right now - and its still fairly respectable.

Anyway some progress . . .

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and a random photo playing around with the camera
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By posting it here I might be encouraged to keep at it LOL
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JayME wrote:
By posting it here I might be encouraged to keep at it LOL
Okay then. Keep going. How's that? :)
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Post by ProZac »

Looking good man, I really like to original front skirts on the earlier model one, it they're straight, will look awesome :)

Any plans for modifications? Yours is so nice and original though... Hmmmm.
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