I have an embarrassing story about pimping my ride.
Fresh off of the high of watching the original Fast and Furious movie, so this would have been in 2002, I had an interest in wanting to trick my ride out, which was a mid 90s Oldsmobile Achieva. I had a shitty retail gig so I didn't have much money. I wanted underdash and underseat lighting and a new sound system for a start. However I couldn't afford to do it the right way so I wound up buying some hideously overpriced (I remember it was $80) underdash and underseat purple lighting that ran off of my car charger. It had a bunch of cables going around the interior of my car to make it work so anytime someone was in my car, they'd discover these cables around. I couldn't afford a new sound system since it was a couple hundred so I just cranked up the bass and reduced the treble until eventually it blew out my speakers. So I had to listen to early crunk hitz like Lil Jon's "Bia Bia" with no bass and tinny sound.
I remember catching a lot of shit about it from my friends but I was pretty defensive about it. My dream car was a fully tricked out rice burner. The lighting was thrown away by my parents immediately after I left for college but probably not before shaking their heads first. Every once in a while, I get tempted to blow a bunch of money but I think better of it.
