Austarion

Brought myself a starion yesterday. Wasn't even looking for one but couldn't pass up a good oportunity.

I think it is a late model jap spec but can't be sure. Has the red top engine. Has only 35000 genuine miles on the clock. as far as i know it was crashed early on in its life and somewhere along the line was restored and a widebody kit was added. Was brought into NZ in 1995. and at some point was crashed again, damaging the front. is currently in that state. engine needs some work aswell as something not right. there is a loud knocking noise coming from the head. but is still running on all four cylinders. Has factory lsd and is 5 stud.

Anyway here are some pics

Wasn't that for sale in Auckland? How'd you get her to palmy so quick?

So this will be my project in a few months when i have time for it.
Have a few other cars to organise and sell befor a start work on this.

Looks like there is some work ahead of you,, might be hard to match the flared front to a front bar..

JD_Stazza_Brendan wrote:might be hard to match the flared front to a front bar..

I'm 99% sure a narrowbody front bar fits fine. Finding a late model front bar in NZ will be the hard part!

Nice score there man, any chassis damage?

So thats 5 wideys accounted for. Palmystar, Jrod's, JAS's, The one on trademe and the red one with 4WS somewhere here in chch.

Yeah got it from auckland. did a mission drive with a trailor to auckland and back yesterday. throw in some towing vehical problems and was a long, fun day. :roll:

Will be a bit difficult matching a front to the flared kit but where theres a will theres a way.

And no apparent chassis damage.

Looks like a good project. And those wheels are even better! Are the rear widey panels fibreglass or welded in?

that thing has euro spec taillights, are you sure its not a euro widebody someones's brought over??

redzone wrote:that thing has euro spec taillights, are you sure its not a euro widebody someones's brought over??

Speedo in "MPH" too

yeah i saw that, not sure if UK wideys had MPH/KPH dual scale speedo's or not. MrBishi can answer that one...

Yeah euro wideys have the dual speedo. Could be euro widey :P

surely the VIN would tell you its origin

The rear gaurds appear to be fibreglass. but will look further into the matter.

And yeah i'm loving the wheels. going to look good when i clean them up and give them a bit of a polish.

US speedo's have MPH and KPH from memory. They sell the aftermarket ones for their cars like that too.