“You’re supposed to be setting a good example. Now get back in your coffin immediately!”
Just a quick update on the slowly progressing beast that is Zombi.
5 speed will be in very soon and then the fun really begins.
You see, there once was a French design studio of an American company for a mainly british market, that produced to near visually identical cars but had different drive trains?
Found this link, had to share!
This is the reason I prefer D1SL over D1GP. Simply because it’s back to the roots of organized Japanese drifting. For those of you who don’t know D1 Grand Prix is a drifting series out of Japan, professionals work their way to qualify and earn a D1GP license so that they can compete. It used to be very grass roots, meaning that people with small budgets were competing evenly with those with big budgets. However, at some point D1GP moved away from the smaller, slower multi-corner track layouts, to the larger, single corner track layouts. Many of the slower, low budget cars had not a chance, and D1GP lost a lot of is flavor, variety and excitement. This was due to the popularity of drifting in Japan as a spectator sport, as the smaller tracks were not large enough venues to hold the amounts of people coming to watch. However, from this popularization, sprouted a feeder series for the D1GP, called D1 Street Legal. There were heavier restrictions on the cars to keep the budgets down and competitive for average joes, but also the tracks were many of the old, original, smaller kart based courses the D1GP began upon. Thus, watching some of the new D1SL is similar to that of the old d1GP, however, what is noticble is the familiarity builders are becoming with drifting steering angles, modded knuckles and racks. Rad video found on Driftworks.
Somewhere in the annals of time, someone somewhere came up with what I think could have been the greatest idea for a racing series ever.
I have a strange passion for vinyl work. It’s wicked to watch someone commit to doing it all by hand.
Metallic vinyls are unforgiving and a little evil.
I apologize for the lack of posts as of recent. I know you don’t come onto this blog to read about the life of Quinn, but to enjoy pictures of cars and the odd bits of information associated with them. In lieu of that I’ll try my best to put some pictures in for you.
As a brief follow up to Quinn’s Dajiban post I thought everyone should check out the D Van GP. Not terribly exciting but amazing and ludicrous to see.
These “Hentai” or “Rape” vans may be the next big thing.
It’s like a child molesting parade.
The first Capital Drift practice of 2010 and what an explosive start. With at least 17 cars in attendance there was a huge variety of cars, power and skill level.
The morning air was cool and the track was still wet. This worked out for those who are still new to the sport but offered some interesting challenges as it started to dry in patches throughout the day.
