The Big Apple

New York’s Own Nawshin Basher Sets a New Benchmark for Mitsubishi Evos
 

- Joey Lee

There have been quite a few Mitsubishi Evolutions featured over the years here at Super Street. 

Some were fully built race vehicles, many more were show cars, and still others did a little bit of both; but we’re confident in saying that there are few that were built to the caliber of the one you’re looking at now. Nawshin Basher, creator of this masterful Mitsubishi, wanted to encompass the best of both worlds, so he fully invested all he had into this Evo—a project car he originally thought he lost the opportunity to finish many years before.

“I used to own an [Evolution IX] back when I was about 21,” Basher reminisces. “I had to sell the car due to financial difficulties at the time, but I always told myself I would accomplish my dream of building a full Volutex wide body Evo. When I was younger I would spend hours watching Tarzan Yamada racing the legendary Cyber Evo and dreamt of having one of my own some day.”

School loans and real-life priorities took precedence over his hobby and Nawshin made the conscious decision to take a break from cars—a four-year break at that. Weaker-willed individuals would have caved during that stretch and jumped right back into modding, but Basher stayed resilient. Parts from Japanese tuning marvel Voltex aren’t necessarily cheap, so any dream of building an Evo with all the legit aero pieces would require more than just your basic part-time job. It took time and patience but he eventually saw the light at the end of the tunnel.

“I worked hard, really hard, and saved up enough money to get some what close to my dream. This may seem like a finished product but there is so much more I want to do with my Evo. I don’t think it’ll ever be fully complete,” he says.