Yay i now own a starion

palmystar · Post by **palmystar** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:10 pm

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

jrod82 · Post by **jrod82** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:13 pm

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

palmystar · Post by **palmystar** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:13 pm

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.

JD_Stazza_Brendan · Post by **JD_Stazza_Brendan** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:16 pm

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

jrod82 · Post by **jrod82** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:20 pm

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!

Junkers · Post by **Junkers** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:52 pm

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.

palmystar · Post by **palmystar** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:40 pm

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.

bigd · Post by **bigd** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:42 pm

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

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:45 pm

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

silo · Post by **silo** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:58 pm

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

Speedo in "MPH" too

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:07 pm

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

bigd · Post by **bigd** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:20 pm

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

JD_Stazza_Brendan · Post by **JD_Stazza_Brendan** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:40 pm

surely the VIN would tell you its origin

palmystar · Post by **palmystar** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:05 pm

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.

Website · Post by **WidebodyWoody** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:47 pm

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

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