one of my fav pics, on the ground my RB20 32 4dr (pride and joy), next to it on the hoist is what is left of my RB26 32 2dr (missile) after being cut up and shipped back. not long after this the RB26, T78 kit and all of the support mods were stripped out and sold for a healthy sum which goes towards my trip coming up in november back there.
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i'll have 2 more cars soon to share with you guys, hoping for another R32 as a missile, and a C33 laurel which will be my streeter to get around Japan and drift the touge's over there (amazing).
a tribute to my 2dr 32 which gave me many memories, which is now a pile of metal in my backyard:
when i first bought it:
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in the carpark to the mountain i worked on, where i layed many a skid at the request of my japanese friend hiro who managed the car park:
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hooray to having to clear this every time i had to drive it:
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a street spot, local to where we worked (i smashed the lower lip skidding here, getting too close to the snow on the ground, so that was the end of that):
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the first real damage, meet and greet with ebisu school courses wall.
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waking up to this, the day before i was meant to compete in D1 east division at minami, this meant no competition for me as i still had to pull my gearbox out and fix my clutch, which wasnt happening in that weather. for those who know ebisu, that is the touge course behind me.
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smashing over the infamous japanese gutter, takumi does it better than me. unfortunately my igniter module plug decided to come off the module mid drift, cutting complete power to my engine, and sending me into the mountain. nothing to do except hold on and hope damage was minimal haha
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the damage was minimal, just a dented rim, unfortunately it wasnt holding air, but considering what it just went through, i was happy with just a dent, amazing strength. a quick trip down to agent K's and i was rolling again, this was the same day, my first day drifting minami (due to not having a clutch previously)
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my mate, who came up, never been in a drift car, took him out on one of the worlds scariest courses, with me, who had never drifted the course before, and has a slight reputation for being wreckless as **** and hitting stuff, hard haha. to this day, i'm yet to have anyone get in my car, and not make contact with something on the track, he was no exception, some big scraped on the minami and north course wall, he took it like a champ however haha
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car started to resemble a proper missile, this is me filling up at petrol station, in the middle of nihonmatsu, still to this day my favourite photo.
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matsuri, the mecca of drift, undoubtably
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5pm, sunday, the aftermath:
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