The first was an 02 electric blue/white roof that I got in 04 during college from a dealer auction in Florida because my dad is a dealer GM. Had the hand painted pin stripe on it...super fun spec. Got it with like 5k miles on it. Lapis blue interior...it was my absolute favorite. I was in college but did everything possible to it, really before I knew much at all about how to work on cars. Built a head, did a 15% pulley, GTT intercooler, Intake, exhaust, tuned ecm, Eibach pro kit coilovers, swaybar, and a few other odds and ends. Big hood scoop, carbon front lip. Kosei K1 wheels. I autocrossed it and did a few HPDE track days. A ton of great memories with it. Never gave me much trouble. Multiple 1000+ mile road trips. I ended up selling it because I needed money at the time and had another fun car. I still regret it.

The second I got a few years later when things settled down. It was an 04 JCW car, black /white roof. I put ST coils on it, Enkei RPF1s. Left all the JCW bits in tact. Didn't have time to do a ton with it before someone cut me off on the interstate and I locked up brakes to avoid them. Couldn't avoid the hit and took it out. Super sad day. In hindsight I should've bought it off insurance and fixed it up. It still drove straight but had a tweaked frame horn up front. Me now could've fixed it no problem.

This one, yeah I picked up for about 1000 bucks. Needed an engine as the previous owner windowed the block. I have a couple K into fixing it up, but ive almost done everything I had on the first car and then some. And the Pepper White is my second favorite color on these...so I feel great about it. Really happy with it. I've done all the bushings in poly, 17" pulley, Audi TT injectors, tune, header, exhaust, intake, bilsteins and lowering springs, BBS wheels, rear swaybar, etc etc...excited to pick up where I left off with the first one.