Only looks illegal - San Diego Reader
"Last week we posted up right there at the Tapioca Express by the golf course [in Bonita], and there were a couple [of] five-o scopin' out my whip with flashlights," explains Warren Manongdo as he wrenches on his 1995 Honda Del Sol. and the latest of his law-breakin’: taking rear-view-mirror selfies with the police car in the background (while the vehicle was still moving). Then there’s the right-hand-drive conversion that he did to his vehicle in order to give it that true Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) vibe. Manongdo, a pharmaceutical tech, who treks from Paradise Hills to Torrey Pines every day, claims, “[T]hey can never get me for driving to and from work on the right-hand-side of the vehicle, because I went about this the right way…. "I had to import a whole front-end JDM clip and convert it onto my USDM [United States domestic market] frame [via welding], cut new holes through my firewall to run the wires and cables…. The wires in Manongdo's Honda were all taped and grommeted to give it the stock OEM (original equipment manufacturer) look. "I got the best Honda at the last Autofest in Anaheim [in May 2014],” he says, pointing toward a four-foot-tall trophy, "and you know how hard it is to win in the Honda class. " (The Honda/Acura Class at car shows has the largest playing field because of the. Source: www.sandiegoreader.com
