Project Trash Car - Part 1 - Back from the Dumpster

Welcome back to Shop Chronicles! It’s been a while, and we’ve been busy. 

In this episode, Viet and the Flatirons team start going through the shell which will become his new-to-him 2003 WRX. It may not be the prettiest project out there, but this is the first Subaru Viet has owned personally. First, he picked up a blue ‘03 WRX from our buddy Alec for a great deal after it was rear-ended because the car was totaled. 

Then Viet found the shell, a silver ‘03 WRX that appeared to have lived a rather adventurous life.

Covered with interesting stickers in interesting places, it seemed like this car had quite a few stories to tell. But, it’s going to get another chance to live using a donor engine, transmission, and tons of other parts from the blue car. 

In this series we’ll go behind the scenes with the swap and share our experience of getting this Franken-Subie to run once again!

Thanks for watching and Stay Tuned!