THE THINGS I DO: D1 Fairlady ride-along
30-03-2009 12:30 am
I rode in this car. Watch the video.
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NAGOYA GYARU DORI: Michiko’s S14 Silvia
24-03-2009 12:30 am
When I lived in Australia, I used to help run a drift club (www.initialdrift.com.au) that put on track days about once a month. The circuit we used most of the time was no more than an hour’s drive away from most people in Sydney, yet you’d still hear the occasional whinger complain about the distance.
This S14 Silvia belongs to a girl named Michiko. She drove about 500km/310 miles from Nagoya to Utsunomiya to drift at Nikko Circuit, then drove back home the same day.
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BLACK ON BLACK: NOB’s 180SX
09-03-2009 12:30 am
When we were at Mizunami Circuit the other day, I noticed that NOB rolled in with a car that looked like his Vertex Ridge-kitted 180SX, but in black instead of red.
Turns out someone had rear-ended him, and the panelbeater had suggested repainting the whole car with something new, so NOB decided on “makkuro”, or “pitch black”.
20 CommentsFLYRAT DEMO CAR: Yamaya’s C10 Skyline
20-02-2009 12:30 amFlyrat is a workshop that specialises in all kinds of kyusha maintainence, restoration and modification, so it wasn’t surprising to see their demo car being thrashed around Tsukuba Circuit.
Driving it was the shop’s boss, Yamaya, who was quite amused by how much a foreigner like me liked the look of his car. Flyrat isn’t too much of a drive from here, so I might line up a shop visit next time I’m in the area.
HACHIS AIN’T S**T BUT HOS AND TRICKS: KE70 at Nikko Circuit
12-02-2009 12:30 am
Oooh, AE86 people aren’t going to like that title.
KE70 people are going to love these photos though.
23 CommentsI HEART EIGHTY ONE: Tsuyoshi Tezuka’s JZX81 Chaser
11-02-2009 12:30 am
I took this photo back in 2005 on a trip to Japan with the Ben Ellis, the editor of the long defunct and much missed Drift Battle magazine (wow, I can’t believe that website is still up!), and Team Peer’s Darren Appleton.
We made a late-night visit to Kids Heart one day because it was on the way back home from Tezuka’s favourite ramen restaurant, if I recall correctly. Isn’t he a happy chappy with his purple umbrella?
I think the car just sitting up the front as an attention-getter while waiting to have the blown engine replaced. Tezuka was driving the Bee-R R324 by this time, so there was no real rush to fix it.
Think an interview might be a good idea the next time I see him?
12 CommentsLIKE NAKAI: Hard-as-nails Porsche 964
10-02-2009 12:30 am
Rauh Welt Begriff customer Porsche 964.
3.8L, naturally aspirated, 57 seconds around Tsukuba, zipties and Uzi stencils.
21 CommentsAMATEUR HARDCORE: Hiroki’s Silvia and Kazuya’s Skyline
30-01-2009 12:30 am
These two friends from Shimane Prefecture own cars that look good and are drifted constantly.
Pay attention. This is the right way to do things.
14 CommentsDO IT LIKE THIS: Neat panda 86 at Nikko
20-01-2009 12:30 am
Here’s an 86 with all the right touches.
11 CommentsFEED IT: Yoshihara Fujita’s daily driver
19-01-2009 12:30 am
It’s not too surprising if you’ve never heard of Fujita Engineering. Unlike one of the other big rotary tuners in Japan that is constantly exposed to the general public, Fujita really only concentrates on the people that matter; rotary owners.
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