Sportstar

Owner: Buz Di Vosta

The Sportstar is a two-year exercise in art and design. Work began by building a perimeter-type frame from box-section steel tubing. The independent front suspension consists of unequal length billet aluminum A-arms with in-board, cantilevered coil-over shocks. In the rear, it's a similar system; however, huge blanks of billet aluminum were hogged out on the mill to form the upper and lower H-section control arms.

In search of something totally different to ride between the frame rails, Boyd chose to drop in an entire drivetrain from a Lexus SC400. Getting power to the ground is a set of Boyd Coddington wheels using 205/40ZR17 BF Goodrich T/A Radials in front and 315/35ZR17s in the rear.

With the chassis complete it was time to install the hand-fabricated steel body. Once the hours of massaging the body were finished, everything was treated to numerous coats of Dupont Boyd Red. To keep things simple and clean, the seats and surrounding interior pieces were covered with leather dyed to match the exterior. Topping off the interior is a Boyd Coddington steering wheel and Lexus instrumentation.