MAZDA 5-SERIES: Crossover wheel RX-periment
03-11-2009 1:29 am
How about this? An FD RX-7 on E60 M5 wheels.
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TYPHOON DRIFTING: N-Style soukoukai at Nikko
02-11-2009 11:56 pm
It seems like every single track day I’ve been to recently has been wet. The N-Style soukoukai (driving meeting) was no exception, as it was on in the middle of a decently-sized typhoon!
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LOW LOADER: J’s Racing’s double car carrier
30-10-2009 11:42 am
Check this out. Have you ever seen one of those super-low loaders where the whole tray drops off the back of truck and onto the ground? Perfect for anything low, but those are always single car carriers. What do you do if you need to carry two really low cars with expensive and easily-breakable carbon-fibre front spoilers?
Click and observe.
34 CommentsTOUGE BATTLE: Hot Version DVD at Gunsai
29-10-2009 12:06 am
俺はドリキンだぜ。今週はホットバージョンのバイトでした、群サイ峠へ。
I couldn’t help myself.
Yesterday was the video shoot for the latest Best Motoring Hot Version DVD, in which challengers who had managed to qualify on previous “Road to Gunsai” DVDs were brought together to see who is the current king of Gunsai touge. Just in case you were wondering, Gunsai is a portmanteau of Gunma Cycle Center. The track is a cycling circuit, believe it or not!
As I mentioned before, I’ve been working for Hot Version part-time on their shoots, so this time I kept a proper camera in my pocket to take a few pics for you guys to see.
30 CommentsWEEKEND EDITION: The story of Calgary drift and Race City
25-10-2009 3:16 amRemember Dave and Devin, the two Canadian guys who came over here a while ago?
Canadian lad Paul Harrison sent me this video about the Calgary drift scene. Apparently, they’re due to lose their legal drift venue, which is something at an extreme level of suck. I can relate to this, since I was around since the beginning of track drifting in Sydney back in Australia, and we’re due to lose our best drift track, Oran Park, to a housing development.
Also, I’m in love with that duck-egg KE20.
19 CommentsWEEKEND EDITION: Videos from Canada and Texas
24-10-2009 3:04 amThe first one was sent to me by Steve from Canada. He probably thinks I wasn’t going to post this video, because I just sent him back a “that’s nice, thanks for your email” kind of email. Language warning on this one if you’re playing it out loud somewhere. The track looks like fun. Do the guys from Seattle and Vancouver have to get a ferry over there or something? The best part of this video is when the guy in the blue 180SX hits the switchez.
Lonestarbash @ Mineral Wells, TX 2009. By Fabricated Motorsports. from aaron losey on Vimeo.
The next one is Aaron Losey’s video of the Lonestarbash at Mineral Wells in Texas. It’s kind of long, but you didn’t come here because you’re busy now, did you? I like the idea of the “party circle” at the end of the run. The best part of this video is when the camera was in focus.
The best part about both these videos are Cressidas.
17 CommentsDORITASHA: Free Craft’s Progrès
20-10-2009 12:55 am
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.
13 CommentsNOSTALGIA: Suzuka 8 Hours 2 arcade game
19-10-2009 2:19 am
I couldn’t believe it when I found this buried in the back corner of local bowling alley. This thing has to be more than fifteen years old. Even the vacuuformed plastic umbrella girl is in perfect condition.
The bikes felt smaller than I remember though.
6 CommentsWEEKEND EDITION: How to make a video of Ebisu’s Drift Matsuri
18-10-2009 12:29 pmPay attention. It is possible to make an interesting drift video that contains closeups of weeds blowing in the wind.
This video was made by a guy called Eiji from the Australian team Red Stage (here’s a pic), and a member of my old club, Initial Drift. He came to the last summer drift matsuri with a couple of other guys and pretty much had a camera in his hand the whole time.
Keep an eye out for the “Team Mad Max” Skyline, especially at 3:35 where I actually make a somewhat decent run on Minami! Also, the guy I shake hands with is Luke Fink, the recent winner of the Australian drift championship, after we won the Drift Land twin competition.
42 CommentsKAWASAKI’S NISSAN: Drift Tengoku’s drift GT-R
15-10-2009 4:38 am
Here’s another car that was parked at Fuji Speedway recently, nicely slammed on some Blitz 03 wheels. It’s the Drift Tengoku project GT-R that belongs to the editor, Ryuusuke Kawasaki.
For those that follow Doriten, the legendary pink and white JZX90 Chaser has finally run out of registration, so they’re moving on to a JZX100 Cresta kouki. I can’t wait to see that!
Kawasaki-san told me that he regularly reads Noriyaro, and reckons the photography is cool. Not bad eh?
これはドリ天の編集長川崎さんのＧＴ－Ｒです。シ～ブイ！じゃ、ドリ天のＪＺＸ１００クレスタを早くメイクしてね、川崎さん！
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