FTO at Auction

[Retsub]

Hi all,

Found this at http://www.graysonline.com today
http://www.graysonline.com/lot/0001-300 ... r?spr=true

Thought someone might be interested as it is to far away for me

good luck

Retsub

[SchumieFan]

WTF! Face lift
gr
lancer steering wheel
lancer fabric fto seats
Manual air con


That's 1 f**king confused car!

[Shane001]

WTF! Face lift
gr
lancer steering wheel
lancer fabric fto seats
Manual air con


That's 1 f**king confused car!

And a Toyota stereo system lol

[Daniel2019]

Yeah... wtf?

[c3rbera]

What year is it actually....


GX with a replacement boot lid I guess..lol at the Version R spec climate control.

[Daniel2019]

No fkn clue

[Daniel2019]

My guess is that it's a very very very early '97 GR, before it was changed to GX and the climate control has been replaced at some stage with the wrong one.

Or, there was some sort of option when new to have manual climate control from a version R for weight reduction and this car has it.

The seats are also a pattern I have never seen before. It must be some weirdly optioned car.

[c3rbera]

It's just bits out of a Lancer, my Mirage looked similar haha

[SchumieFan]

yeah they look like mirage seat fabric... and thats not a fto climate control... not even sure its mitsubishi... just a frankenstein

[Vectose]

and thats not a fto climate control... not even sure its mitsubishi...

Yes it is. GPvR manual control and GS had them also. They aren't easily interchangeable with the digital ones so I'm guessing it was like that from factory. There were also a couple different seat fabric patterns.

[c3rbera]

They aren't easily interchangeable with the digital ones so I'm guessing it was like that from factory.

This is getting weirder and weirder..this car is a freak.

[Daniel2019]

There were also a couple different seat fabric patterns.

Yes, but I haven't seen any like that on an FTO.

[Vectose]

Probably an option that not many people opted for. For obvious reasons.

[Astron_Boy]

Option fabric seats.
Pre facelift had the option of an Airbag steering wheel, 2 variants, that's the 3 spoke design one.
Front bar doesn't look like it matches the paint or body line, so replaced, despite the poor shots, doesn't look like parkers in the high beams...
Manual aircon controls have me however.
Stereo simply been replaced with something laying around.

GR with option fabric and steering wheel, facelift bumper and somehow manual aircon controls.

[Daniel2019]

Hmm. Must be a very very early 97 then. Jan-March.

[Astron_Boy]

Actually I found out the other day the last of the 4spd were in fact 1996.

[Daniel2019]

Weird. But it had a pre-facelift bar so can't have been made after March '97.



Edit: Dan are you sure? This one is a 4 speed tip which means it is in fact a GR and pre-facelift, with a facelift bar.

[Astron_Boy]

Edit: Dan are you sure? This one is a 4 speed tip which means it is in fact a GR and pre-facelift, with a facelift bar.

Dwayne would know for sure, but my searching showed only 4spds up to 96.

Meanwhile, another GR with manual controls.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-ca ... 907096.htm


EDIT: Looking at dstocks list.
GR Limited....
Not a lot of detail on that model, perhaps they had manual controls.

Technik, email the seller on Trademe and get his DE3A.

EDIT 2: Well, that thought it out the window, link below is a GR Ltd and has auto controls. (check completefto vin dec.)
http://www.jumveacars.com/car/mitsubishi/fto/8865

[Technikhaus]

Just to make it more confusing:

Model Code: HNHME
Model: GR
Engine: 6A12
Transmission: 5sp MT
Colour: Scotia White
Manufacture Date: Week 3, May 1997
Option Code: 000
Interior Code: 21X

It is indeed a GR, made if may 97. first registered June 97...

[Astron_Boy]

MT...

GR
The ultra-rare facelift GR model continued with it's 170bhp engine and lost its standard climate control, this model was only available without the "Sports Package".

http://wikicars.org/en/Mitsubishi_FTO

Close to a successful answer as we'll find