SPEED HERO Blog — Automotive Life

Slowly, there is a group of people managing to make street drifting a legitimate culture. Europe has always had hill climb events available to the public since the early days of motorsport. 3 Guys come to mind when thinking about Hill climb Drifting: Yves Faber and his mustang, Marc Fluery and his E30 coupe and Pepe Juan Torres and his 635i. Click in for videos. Yves Faber

While Quinn's out doing his thing, I thought I'd pop around and post something.  Today's lesson is how to install a USB port in your car.  No, it's not going to make your old-ass stereo play MP3s.  Then why?  Because I hate carrying around chargers and crap.  And because it cost me less than 3 bucks to do. Well, maybe I lied about the whole MP3 thing.  I'm using this to power my MP3 player, so I can hook it up to the AUX in of my deck. ...

My day started like any other; in the passengers seat of some strangers truck hauling goat meat and framed paintings. A dog sit beside me chewing milk bones at his leisure and quantity, straight out of what appeared to be, a once full box. This day, was going to be a relaxed one. Sun was out, clouds gathered into a group and shuffled into the next room, and the parking lot filled with cars from another land. People smiled, tires burned, sunburns became a hot fashion for the afternoon...

Atari in the back of a Griffith built Celica Convertible WITH the light up aftermarket center panel. Amazing.

The relevance of this scene is mind bogglingly accurate to that of the off beat burnout culture...... If your new to the best episode of the simpsons ever, then let me lend you a link to the scene: Here. Although both countries love their burnouts, they treat them very differently. Australia has the burnout competitions at most drag events, the biggest as far as I know, at the Super Nationals and other massive events.