Minty.Fresh Altezza

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

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

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Looked so clean back then!

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

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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!

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

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

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

So, then I moved to Aberdeen.

Few farewell shots from down south before the drive up

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Then I met the Minty.Fresh bellends

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

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Then I crashed her a few times

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Was doing ok up to that point

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Pieced back together... almost

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Then Mint was sound enough to fix the aero for me

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Good as new

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

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

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Must be the water supply

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The we did Finalboss!

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Did some more damage

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Aftermath was not pretty

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It had to be done

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It looks like such a slut class car man :)

All done!

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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!!!!

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Out with the beams!

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Ready for the JZZZZZ

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Plop!

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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

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

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

best of luck with conversion :)

Pretty epic great write up
Cant wait to see more

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

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