19 here. Weird though cuz if you saw me in real life and didn't know my age, you'd assume I was like, at least 24 or something cuz of the way I carry myself. Not braggin', I just think it's weird.

Ahhh yes friends. We all remember the "golden days"- the days when we first started driving, and the cars we drove tended to be nearly as old (or older) than us. My first car was a 1991 Toyota Camry 4 cyl. automatic. Talk about a POS! But at least the thing was reliable. Over 180,000 miles on it and the only problem I had with it was a low idle which would cause the car to die sometimes, but a tune-up fixed it.

Now then, coming from such a humble background, along with family and friends who had not the slightest interest in cars, one might wonder how I even got into cars. Well, to be perfectly honest with you, I (like many others, who prolly don't wanna admit it), got into the scene by watching The Fast and the Furious.
I don't quite remember exactly what it was that caused me to watch it in the first place. I dunno; maybe I was bored or something. But it just sorta hooked and reeled me in. Now that I think about it, I guess it was being able to customize one's car any way he/she likes that really got me. Also, being a big fan of RPG video games, the ability to increase the performance of one's car was very appealing to me. So I said, 'Why not?'

Being that the "4 doors of doom" was my daily driver and figuring that I was gonna be stuck with this vehicle for quite some time, I first went about cleaning it and giving it a full tune up. I dunno what it was, but somewhere along the line of me revitalizing the Camry, it gained new life, for the car seemed to perform slightly better overall with each fluid/bulb/fuse/part I changed. The speed was like a drug, and I a passionate addict. From there, the seats received some cool black seat covers with white dragons embroidered onto them, as wheel as a steering wheel cover. The interior panels were also given a taste of customization. The middle inset panels on the doors were painted bright blue, with the outsets black. The bottom portion of the car's side interior panels were painted white, with the top panels, including the ceiling, were painted black. I made a template of a large dragon identical to those embroidered on the seat covers, and painted it onto the ceiling in white. Black lights were placed throughout the car, and the white paint, especially the white dragons on the seat covers and ceiling, looked sooooo nice with the black lights on.

Somewhere along the line, like many others who at the time are new to the car scene, I went a little overboard and riced the car out. I added hood pins on my stock hood (worst mistake I ever made), a "Type S" sticker I bought from Autozone placed next to the words "Toyota Camry" on the back, generic windshield banner I bought from Autozone, blue foglights, blue lights in the parking light housings, blue headlight bulbs, and a tailpipe tip.

I gradually moved out of the riceboy phase and what followed was an intense interest to find ways to increase the performance of the Camry. From countless hours of searching, I found an aftermarket exhaust header that was originally intended for the (5th gen.?) Celica (the base model that shared the same engine with the Camry, which is the 3S-FE.) Then me and some other guys got together on the Toyota Nation forum to make a group buy for a custom made CAI by a company called E.L. Prototypes. Soon followed a custom made rear spoiler I had made for the Camry by a company called Extreme Dreams Automotive (based in Canada). I was just about to order the Erebuni front bumper for the Camry, as well as a Whiteline rear anti-sway bar from Autstrailia, when I came across a 93 Honda Del Sol Si in awesome condition.

And the rest they say...well, you know the words...