 I honestly didn't have a culture when I grew up. I'm from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and you know, there ain't nothing. I've never seen an S2000 before. I came to California. You know, the nicest car on the street was a BMW. I got interested in cars when I was a young kid, and my dad was part of the Corvette Club. I was working on his car, going to the races with him. Actually, I was social sneaking into OCR to watch the racing. I was 15 years old. I purchased my first car, which was a 99 Honda Civic, and I remember seeing hybrid. I would always see them drive by at the car meet, so then I said, you know, I want to build my car that way too, so what gave me the passion and the boost to want to do it was to try to get to their level. The definition of hybrid is literally a combination of species to become something new, and that's exactly what we are. We are a combination of different peoples from different backgrounds, different ethnicities coming together due to the love of the import scene and automotive vehicles to accomplish the same goal. With a lot of people buying the same type of vehicle and buying a very limited number of parts, you have a lot of vehicles that look very, very similar. That's always the challenge. Make yours stand out. It says a lot about you because you put your own style into the cars. To me, it's like how you dress, how you present yourself. Motor compartment is custom. Custom valve covers, custom radiator shrouds. It has eight fuel lines and eight nitrous lines. Crocodile interior with 21 hides that had shaped smooth and then died like a honeycomb. We've been in magazines and movies and videos. We've gone from just a group of individuals that are playing with their own vehicles to a group that's now working with companies. We have Goodrich, McGuire's, Mishimoto's. These are companies that have a vested interest in the import scene and have a vested interest in us. My Nissan Z came out of the face of BFG Ranch because of Team Hybrid. Being sponsored by BFG, it just made me feel a lot better about my car having that big company back me in my build. It kind of shows the passion. People build a car for what they see and what they want and how their imagination can put something into an ordinary object. You've got to keep it changed up otherwise your car will get stale in the scene and you won't win. A lot of times I walk away with no trophy because somebody has a better build than mine. Then truly like another family, this is where I actually get to be myself and talk about the things I like with all the people that share the same passion as me. I love it. I love being able to say that I'm a part of so many different chapters and I can just reach out to anybody. If I need something, I can just give them a phone call. The import culture is still a young automotive community. It's always been associated with youngsters because we were young when we started it. We were all 19. At some point we grow old. The passion doesn't die whenever you have a baby or whenever you hit a road bump. To me it's a never-ending progress. Nobody has a finished car. I'll never finish this build. I'll always be working on this car. Always.