Modifying my Brothers First Car, A Toyota Vitz
Nothing beats that first car modification; luckily for my brother Stephen, he went for the delayed gratification and slowly accumulated all the parts he wanted to fit into the car over a year until he scored a full license. We picked a suitable weekend, and a few of us got together to help him achieve the dream of owning a stripped-out nugget.
This era of Yaris / Vitz is heavily underrated, with Toyota running a one-make Vitz cup with these back in the day; we never really knew about this until the white TRD MSB Vitz showed up at the shed. If you go back through our website, we did a feature on this car when our mate Damien owned it. This car is why I went down the wormhole of the one-litre cup cars and directly influenced how I built the March.
This Saturday was such a good day at the shed. The car rolled in stock and out as a one-litre go-kart, the perfect first car with a sea of excellent parts scavenged from the donor Japanese four-door and stuff Stephen had collected along the way. His Enkei Tarmacs were a great choice.
I’ll leave you with the photos from that video here. I hope you enjoy them.
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