1) My name is Manpal Bajwa
2) 0967
3) World Rally Pearl Blue
4) Arizona
Since the BRZ came out, I have loved the look of them and didn't really care much about the "lack of power" all these journalists and reviewers have said. Being 9 years old at the time, I asked my dad to buy one so we can have it, and he decided that he'd open an account and drop $5-20 in the account every time I went to work with him. He owned a few truck stops at the time and my tasks were just to follow him, or the janitor, or the maintenance guy (how my love of wrenching started) and just watch what they do, fill the ice machines, eat some candy...fun stuff as a kid. Eventually I switched from one high school to another in 10th grade and met one of my best friends today, who just so happened to have a white 2018 tS which is now sold. I didn't know what the tS was when I saw it and I knew I wanted one as soon as I saw it. Then comes around April of 2019 and I decided to look online if there are any new tS for sale and there was one in Shingle Springs, CA in WRPB and it was the last new blue one on sale and I RAN to my dad and begged him to make the deal on it. We both agreed on using all funds saved from that account he made and then him taking care of the rest of the costs. We bought it sight unseen for $28K and had it shipped to home and have only put on 31K miles since we got it (it had 13 miles on the ODO).
My original plans were to keep it relatively stock, and being a teen I put lowering springs and an Invidia N2 and a UEL header and that was going to be it...until a year and a half a go I got lightly rear ended and had the life scared out of me because the first thing I thought about was the wing (it was fine). I also got my door kicked by a kid in my college parking lot so I had a nice dent on the drivers door (Idk who they were or why they would do it). After these two pieces of damage to the car, I kind of stopped caring so much about the purity of the car, so I decided to slap a JDL turbo kit on it and replace the stock hood with a Seibon TS style hood, all supporting mods and heat management was taken care of, as well as all previous body damage. Now don't get me wrong, I am keeping every single original part to this car so I can revert it back to stock, and I'm never doing an irreversible thing to the car.
Future plans wise, I plan to keep this car forever! I want to build my motor and have around 500 WHP (most likely going to get an IAG 600 block). I originally got the turbo kit to keep up with my dad in his RR Sport Supercharged Dynamic...but a few weeks before I got the turbo, he traded it in for an RSQ8 (January of this year) so now my goals are to keep up with him in THAT. Other than that, if the car ever unfortunately gets totaled or anything, I'd switch over to the previous gen M2 and swap the new gen S58 into it (love the old gen styling and love the new gen engine), or go for a 718 GTS or GT4 RS, or if I'm late 30's or above, I'd settle down with a CRV Hybrid or something comfortable, economical, and won't stand out!
Sorry for the Autobiography!
