With More Facelifts And Transplants Than Pamela Anderson, The Project 240SX Saga Comes To An End
photographer: Henry Z. Dekuyper
Editor's Note: Before I start, I should make it known that I didn't build this car for drag racing, road racing, car shows, or drifting. I built this car for me. For my own personal satisfaction and to do whatever I wanted with it. Anyone who still thinks otherwise or chooses to ride my jock and start stupid forums spreading rumors just to talk smack can lick hot monkey butt.
In typical Asian culture I'm not supposed to write about myself, but then again I don't write for a typical magazine. I work with a bunch of stupid Americans like our sticker says. Unfortunately, I can't write this feature without blabbing on and on about the ten years I've had the car. You see, I've never been a conformist. I had a Sega Master System when Nintendo was dominating the gaming world and I bought a burgundy '95 240SX when Civics and Integras were filling up parking lots. However, my determination to be an individualist always came back to bite me in the buttocks.
Trying to borrow Sega games was impossible and sourcing 240SX parts was more difficult than trying to steal a coconut from a bi-polar orangutan with ADHD. I pieced together an intake and modified adapter to make it fit. There were no bolt-on exhausts so it was the local muffler shop special, which was cool back before cops started trippin' on everything. I had S&S fabricate a header, bought a set of ST springs and sadly, that's where the modifications maxed out. Not that it would stop any shops from ripping me off with BS computer upgrades.
A little later I added a mid wing, chrome wheels, and a direct port nitrous system. My friend Nick Cruz and I would fiddle around with our cars after school and work at his grandparents' machine shop. And in all honesty, we really had no idea what we were doing half the time. After slapping on a VeilSide body kit, some dumb chick at my school crashed into it so I opted to update to the '97 headlights. Not that much later, my car was vandalized and I ended up having P.J. Bonifacio paint it the Spectra Blue Mica color that it remained for a while. Since then, I have only trusted P.J. with body work on any of my cars.