March 2020: Sometimes in life things happen and things come up, and despite being too good to be true, they aren’t. This has happened to me a few times now. I think about something, look for something, lose interest after finding nothing. Then like clockwork, I give up, and the ultimate thing presents itself to me.
Firstly why? I’ve owned a lot of cars in the last 5 years while owning my blue Cuore. And I’ve been in and driven so very very fast and more ‘special’ cars. But nothing puts a smile on my face like driving the Cuore. My friends always laughed at me, but I truly meant it when I said I would never sell it, and I wasn’t planning to. There was something always in the back of my head though. Most of the work I’ve done on my car has been great. But particularly in the early days, a lot of the stuff I’ve done, I did for the first time.
Now is that enough justification to get a new car, not really. However, something pretty special popped up.
This popped up on my timeline on Facebook and I knew I had to have it. This is a 1-owner, 2002 Daihatsu Cuore in an unfaded red. Its manual with AC and has only 31,000km on the clock. It has been garaged its entire life and has 18 years of service history. It’s dead stock and is completely original.
Me with the original owner.
So what’s the plan then, better believe it’s not staying stock. Some might think it’s silly to modify this, but quite frankly it’s my car and I want to. Also, I will be continuing this thread my journey is simply ongoing in a new chassis. Here’s a little comparison of the two cars currently.
So a mate and I wasted absolutely no time getting this swapped over. We quickly took the car for those above pics to get a snapshot in stock form, but it was back to my new garage to get started. I won’t go into insane detail of the mods as you’ve all mostly seen them.
We started off with the rear. Braided brake lines and coilovers in.
Front brakes.
Front coilovers.
Clear side indicators.
Wheels and tyres of course.
Lastly the seats, I didn’t realise how dirty the GTVI seats were, I’ll rent a cleaner soon and get that sorted.
Also gave the knob and handbrake a quick clean.
So happy already with how it looks. Quickly went out for some photos before we ran out of light.
So much more planned for this. Window tint is number 1 on the list to get done, its already booked for a week from now.
it is good so see it is going to someone who will appreciate and respect it (and maybe do burn outs in it 
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