Minty.Fresh Altezza

[Pete_the_Russian]

Sooooo... I'll try to keep this short

Some of may have seen this car a while back since she was in Ireland originally!







Looked so clean back then!

Then it was bought by some dude from London who immediately put it up for sale.





Back then I was a FWD gay driving a Ford Focus while still in uni. At that time I was looking to buy a drift car after I by pure coincidence happened to be a passenger in an old bmw that was going around a roundabout sideways. Looked at various Nissans & Toyotas, but always kept coming back to this exact Altezza. As soon as I graduated I scraped all the money I had together, sold my Focus and went and bought the Altezza, all within 2 days.

Boom! Happy as fuck!







Then after that I sat tight for a while because I didnt have a job and hence money to run the car



Only in April 2013 I finally took her to a drift day! Something I have been waiting to do for almost two years!









https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo49gD7XKMQ

[Pete_the_Russian]

So, then I moved to Aberdeen.

Few farewell shots from down south before the drive up





Then I met the Minty.Fresh bellends



Also did a skid at Driftland which opened the weekend I moved to Aberdeen!





Then I crashed her a few times









Was doing ok up to that point



Pieced back together... almost



Then Mint was sound enough to fix the aero for me



Good as new





Then that was it, she went into the garage for the winter to sort various faults as a result of abuse



Dont know what happened, but she was back on the road in spring looking like this





Must be the water supply

[Pete_the_Russian]

The we did Finalboss!





















Did some more damage





Aftermath was not pretty





It had to be done

[GSR2007]

It looks like such a slut class car man

[Pete_the_Russian]

All done!





















I lifestyled for about a month and then decided to garage her and begin on something that I wanted to do since the day I bought her... 1JZ!!!!



Out with the beams!



Ready for the JZZZZZ



Plop!



Anyway, I think thats enough for a background. Currently swapping the 1J in. Might post more detailed info in the build thread section. Will see

[ELV-iS]

love these kinda posts telling an story over a few years in pics...

fair play man... she is well used and abused but still looks the part...

best of luck with the conversion

[noiseMaker_]

haha brilliant ! cool lil story there, along with few scars and pics are savage !

best of luck with conversion

[delsolcrx1]

Pretty epic great write up
Cant wait to see more

[Andrew200sx]

seen this build on driftworks. cool car....like the bn kit.

[lukeb]

Good write ups man you must spend a lot of time doin them!