If anything, it would only help to further set himself apart from the crowd. It may not have been the most popular color choice among other S2000 owners, but Alex was content with his decision. He was a big fan of the color blue and relating paint tones, and he set out to find an S2000 in OEM Suzuka Blue.

One signature of a Sheepey-built Honda that he wanted to translate into his next project was the use of the bluish hue. His attention to detail in each of his builds is second to none, and it’s a style that is almost instantly recognizable. Either Alex is incredibly lucky, or he just knows how to build great, well-rounded cars.

That’s two different Hondas, built three different ways, all reaching equal amounts of notoriety and inciting enough love and hate from the masses to cement his name as a heavy hitter. The fully revamped Civic is sitting in your stack of Honda Tuning mags, plastered on the cover yet again (see August 2010 issue). Just a year after that, he reintroduced his original Civic CX to the world, this time in a full-blown drag setup. For any automotive enthusiast, building two great projects and being honored with two magazine covers would be more than enough-but not for Soto. He followed that up two years later when he unveiled his turbo 2001 Acura Integra, which also appeared on the cover of a sister publication. Alex first made “Sheepey” a household name when he built an immaculate custom “Jade Sea Metallic” Civic CX street/show car, which graced the cover of this publication back in October of 2007. To assure that all our readers are on the same page, here is a quick rundown of the Sheepey résumé. If you have been a member of the vast online Honda community within the last couple of years, you’ve probably heard of the name “Sheepey.” If the name doesn’t ring a bell, then you either lack a connection to the worldwide web, or you’re living under the proverbial rock.

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