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Heyo. Longtime lurker. Figure Ill start a thread for my awful car, a 1995 Saturn SW2. Get it? Its plastic. Its square. Its a litter box.
Little backstory:
Been into Saturns my entire life. My father was a Saturn Tech for 15+ years. My first car was a Saturn. I then purchased this car from him for $100 in 2007. It had been sitting behind our garage for about a year, and before that the previous owner had it sitting for 3 months with the back windows down.
Yeah I dont know why I bought it either.
This is what it looked like when I started:
Then I started the cleanup. This was a blast.
The car had about 200k on it, and the original motor was tired. I was lucky enough to get a wrecked car from a buddy for nothing, and the motor was pretty fresh. So the plan was to combine the best parts off of the two of them. Interior parts, drivetrain parts, etc.
This was the summer of 2008.
I finished the car just in time to drive it down to Tail of the Dragon for the first time in August of 2008. Got super into autocross and trying to make the stupid thing fast. The following pictures are from then until I stopped driving it in August of 2009.
Then in August of 2009 I lost my license for habitual offender of speeding laws. Basically I was young and retarded, and got too many points in too short of an amount of time. The car was parked and has sat since then. In the 3 years since I lost my license, I started to get out of the racing/autocross scene and started hanging out with more euro/drifitng/stance types and started going to more shows. Waterfest, H2o, local shows as well. I started to get more and more into the "stance" world, and now Im basically completely hooked.
I am getting my license back next week, and the car has been pulled out of the carport. This was the parts list when I stopped driving it.
HKS Catback (super rare, only a handful in the country)
SPS 4-1 header (super rare)
Sprint 2" drop springs/KYB struts
SPS Short Ram intake
SPS Billet Strut tower bar
bwtucker rear strut tower bar
1 of 1 custom made gauge faces with led back lighting
Homemade front lip
Falken Azenis 512
Other random small things.
I sold off a lot of the autocross parts I had on the car, like my Sparco Sprint seat and harnesses, and the SAFC2. All the other stuff I am keeping however.
Little backstory:
Been into Saturns my entire life. My father was a Saturn Tech for 15+ years. My first car was a Saturn. I then purchased this car from him for $100 in 2007. It had been sitting behind our garage for about a year, and before that the previous owner had it sitting for 3 months with the back windows down.
Yeah I dont know why I bought it either.
This is what it looked like when I started:
Then I started the cleanup. This was a blast.
The car had about 200k on it, and the original motor was tired. I was lucky enough to get a wrecked car from a buddy for nothing, and the motor was pretty fresh. So the plan was to combine the best parts off of the two of them. Interior parts, drivetrain parts, etc.
This was the summer of 2008.
I finished the car just in time to drive it down to Tail of the Dragon for the first time in August of 2008. Got super into autocross and trying to make the stupid thing fast. The following pictures are from then until I stopped driving it in August of 2009.
Then in August of 2009 I lost my license for habitual offender of speeding laws. Basically I was young and retarded, and got too many points in too short of an amount of time. The car was parked and has sat since then. In the 3 years since I lost my license, I started to get out of the racing/autocross scene and started hanging out with more euro/drifitng/stance types and started going to more shows. Waterfest, H2o, local shows as well. I started to get more and more into the "stance" world, and now Im basically completely hooked.
I am getting my license back next week, and the car has been pulled out of the carport. This was the parts list when I stopped driving it.
HKS Catback (super rare, only a handful in the country)
SPS 4-1 header (super rare)
Sprint 2" drop springs/KYB struts
SPS Short Ram intake
SPS Billet Strut tower bar
bwtucker rear strut tower bar
1 of 1 custom made gauge faces with led back lighting
Homemade front lip
Falken Azenis 512
Other random small things.
I sold off a lot of the autocross parts I had on the car, like my Sparco Sprint seat and harnesses, and the SAFC2. All the other stuff I am keeping however.
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