AND NOT A SINGLE F**K WAS GIVEN THAT DAY: Blind drifting
17-05-2011 1:22 amWhen Free Craft’s Tanaka-san isn’t busy making left-hand drive Silvias and itasha Progrèsses (what’s the plural for Progrès?), he’s drifting blind like a boss.
10 CommentsWhen Free Craft’s Tanaka-san isn’t busy making left-hand drive Silvias and itasha Progrèsses (what’s the plural for Progrès?), he’s drifting blind like a boss.
10 CommentsI received a call from Free Craft’s Tanaka-san last week saying that he had just finished the exterior of a new drift car he was working on. He wanted some photos of it “before the bodywork gets all destroyed”.
38 Commentsこれはジャパクラ田中さんのドリフト痛車。どう思う?痛いですか?ステッカは、エロゲームのチャラです!田中さん、燃え~
I normally wouldn’t post a pic of an itasha for no good reason, but I have one.
This is actually a proper drift car.
If you haven’t seen one before, the car itself is called a Toyota Progrès, and is basically a compact version of a JZX100. It’s meant to appeal to old businessmen, which is more or less who the JZX100 was meant to appeal to anyway, and comes with either a 1JZ or 2JZ engine. Before you get too excited, they were fitted with the direct-injection type, so this one has an engine swap.
I saw it a while ago at Honjo Circuit when the body was still only wearing the pink to white faded paint. Free Craft’s Tanaka-san was giving it a decent thrashing, which made it very surprising to see it stickered up recently with images of Mira, Spica and Garnet from the adult video game “Star Mine Girl”.
Apparently, Tanaka-san did it in order to attract otaku customers who want their cars done up in an itasha style, and it has so far apparently worked.
I don’t know why, but I can’t wait to see this car actually out at the track. There’s something about a the idea of a car with stickers of cute animated girls on it at full lock with smoke pouring off the tyres that just seems so wrongly right.
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