I really enjoyed driving my dream car.
In part one, I described how I was able to purchase my dream car: a Toyota AE86. I was able to buy one with a bit of a shady background, a shady engine swap, some broken parts, a cracked windshield, and many parts in boxes. It took some time and effort to get there, but I managed to sort out most things. Now that the car was drivable, I started driving it on a daily basis.
Me and my girlfriend went on many weekend trips and I really enjoyed wrenching with my mates one or two evenings per month. I would do small things to improve the car or help my mates out if they had a bit bigger job to do. For me, the next thing to sort out was to make the car a bit more comfortable and improve things. Improving comfort was necessary as the suspension featured lowering springs of unknown origins, a set of yellow Koni shocks set to the maximum stiffness, and the four-links of the rear axle had their rubber bushes replaced by solid nylon ones. This may be comfortable when going sideways in a drift session, but not when driving through Dutch urban neighborhoods. The Dutch are king in lowering speed in urban areas to 30 kilometres per hour (18 mph) and placing uncomfortable speed bumps wherever they can.
