This car will forever hold a special place in my heart. It was my first car and my first heavily modified vehicle. I have never driven this thing stock. I made the mistake of getting the “mod bug” before hopping in the car, turning the key, and driving somewhere was even an option. I had a stereo setup installed by the time I had a driving permit. From there, things…well…got much, much worse. Almost six years, an amount of money that I never want to fully sum up, and much learning later, it has: full air suspension, a wiretuck, suede interior, one of 4 known sets of tail lights in the country, dvd player touch screen, and more modifications that I will list after the break.

If you talk to any modern import guy, one thing we all have in common is the obligatory ricer stage we all started out at. Well, this is what I started with. Luckily, I killed this off maybe 1-2 months after driving it. There was no way I was being seen in a high school full of rednecks with these splashes.

Here are a few more pics of it over the years. I will not go into great detail here as I have a build thread that I will link to with the mod list at the bottom of this post that covers everything.

1 of 4 known sets of Garson tail lights in the country:

Full suede interior:

Air suspension:

First pic before modifying everything to go even lower:

Even lower:

Scion Exposed 2009 at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio:

The only known set of fully polished TRD wheels around. I have upwards of 150 hours in these wheels easily and that’s with the help of 4 other people…

Scion Exposed 2010 at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis, IN:

Prepping to run the drag strip:

Towards the end of the 2010 show season, my buddy had a spare cargo carrier that he needed out of his garage. It’s on lend to me and another buddy of mine. There are six of these known of in the states:

My wiretuck has been an ongoing project for years now. I have relocated over roughly 180 wires, two fuse boxes, and a battery by hand. I am just now getting to the point where I can shave the engine bay.

What is to come? ITB’s and some more unique things not done to the xB platform before. I am a lot wiser now and have much more experience under my belt. It just takes time and patients to build something how you envisioned and it will never truly be done.

Full details of the build can be found here: http://www.clubxb.com/forums/f5/codys-bagged-box-day-0-now-26697.html
Exact specs for the car are located here.

A much cleaner HDR that I spent a lot more time on:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/codymays/5112179593

Tomorrow, this changes! I am flying out of Louisville, KY to Dallas then Salt Lake City, Utah with one of my best friends from high school. Once landing in Salt Lake City we will be picking up our rental car and heading through the vast Bonneville salt flats – a goal of mine to have visited some day – to Elko, Nevada to pick up an extremely rare imported car (right hand drive and all). Once the car is in our possession, we will be returning the rental to Salt Lake, and driving across the country in one hell of a vehicle to make this memorable trip in. Both of us will be full armed with Nikon DSLRs so expect pictures soon.

And that’s it for your 3am update. Back to studying for my exams…

La Villa Schweppes Cannes 2010 from Remi Ferrante on Vimeo.