Twins like Anthony and Chris De Guzman learn to share from an early age. Food, toys, faces, the normal stuff. While, a typical teenager would have a tough time buying a car with an after-school job's cruddy paycheck, these twins pooled their resources. That's how the now 22-year-old students got to share their 2002 Toyota Celica.
After being the first to purchase a Super Yellow Celica in their home province of Manitoba, the twins went all out with body, performance and A/V upgrades. To help pay for everything, the pair cites that they received enough scholarships and rewards to offset the cost of tuition. (Score! Studying does pay off.) The number of mods under the hood rings up to over one single-spaced page, so we'll save highlights for the tech box and deal with the A/V system here.
Darci Thorpe, Chris Toffen and Arsenio De la Cruz from a&b Sound in Winnipeg reigned over the mainly Alpine install. Up front, a DVA-9861 head unit was custom molded into the center console. It shares source duties with an infrared camera mounted in the trunk and the PlayStation2 that takes the place of the glove box. The audio runs through Scosche EFX wiring to the pair of amps in the trunk. The fiberglass raft in the rear floats the monoblock amp while another is hidden under the rear seats.
Painted by the twins' cousin Alvin and built by the shop, the fiberglass enclosure assembly in the trunk holds four 10" Type-R subs. For highs and mids, we move back to the cabin, where Type-R 6 " components replace the front door speakers and an additional set takes over for the factory rears.
Lastly, you can't ignore the monitors spread throughout the Celica. The largest, a 15.1-incher, flips up and down in a custom enclosure that replaces the factory cargo cover. Inside the cabin, an 8-inch joins the Alpine in the custom molded center console. Lastly, both of the twins, whether they be driver or passenger, get their individual screen in the sun visors.
The De Guzmans have won too many best of shows and first places to list. That fact helps their personalized license plate get read in always the correct way. Anthony explains: "The license plate on our car reads `DATWINZ.' It's supposed to be read as "DA TWINZ,' but some people read it as `DAT WINZ.' Also fixed above our rear license plate is the word `CELICA.' As a result, some people read `CELICA DAT WINZ' and others read `DA TWINZ CELICA.' We guess both are true!"