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Brass Knuckle Balls.

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...


Old School Vinyl Skills

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'm Surprised they don't say Free Candy on the Side

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.


2009? Wow!

I can't believe, looking back, how much of a crazy year it has been for me. 2009 saw the greatest amount of fun I've had in a very long time. Phil and James were the two who were most involved in this. Let's take a stroll back on some of the blog content from my year? here I am! The year started out with the acquasistion of the 'boo' (1988 Sprinter Carib from Japan), and the 'Zeeboo' (1991 Corolla All-trac wagon) It was followed...