Alright time for the main story of this car, so I went and checked the car out at the start of 2020 and it pretty much ticked all the boxes for me. We had agreed on straight swaps for my R31 at the time, a couple days into agreeing on swapping I had received a message from the owner saying he had crashed it by hitting a curb drifting and wanted to know if I still wanted to swap, i decided to go have a look in person at the damage before agreeing and pretty much the whole left side of the car was screwed underneath. All control arms and suspension parts were either bent or snapped clean off on the impact side, as well as both wheels missing chunks out of the rim. Anyway, I had a look online and found another IS being wrecked at a local wreckers and pretty much bought the whole left side underneath of the car and agreed to still swap. I got all the parts needed to fix the car and then spent a whole day working on the car outside on the road in front of his house, and got it fixed enough to the point I could make it somewhat drive. After replacing most parts I was still having heaps of issues with the front left wheel not sitting properly which caused the cars alignment to keep coming out. I ended up replacing the whole upright assembly which fixed the issue due to it being the tiniest bit bent but wasn't visible until it was next to a new one. Fast forward a couple months I did a few little mods here and there such as lips, coil overs and wheels and also painted my inner trims black so I could get rid of that ugly tan colour. Come January 2022 I ended up finding a 1JZ VVTI out of a JZX100 for sale on Facebook marketplace which I ended up buying. After purchasing the motor I had plans to start the build at the end of 2022, but 2022 had other ideas as the day after I bought the motor I actually ended up losing my license to highway patrol from defects. So what better time to start a new build and make it more illegal. Then at the start of March I sent the car out to Mitch from Serious CMAF. At the time Mitch had just started his little business and my car was the first customer to come through, Mitch put an unbelievable amount of work in to get this car dialed in while still building his own workspace. I would regularly get chauffeured to go visit him to drop endless amounts of parts off and to see the progress as well as him sending me photos day in and day out for more updates. September rolled around and it was dyno day. We had a few little issues here and there but overall the car did great, and ended up pushing 412hp on 98 which I was happy with. Mid September the car was sent in for paint which we ended up painting it in a custom colour of brandywine copper penny and couldn't be happier with the colour of the car. At the end of September the car finally came back to me and it was an unreal feeling to see it finally finished, a feeling that honestly can’t be explained. Fast forward to today the car has been great, only had a few minor issues here and there but nothing crazy.