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My 15 Minutes of Fame

May 11th, 2010 2 comments

On one of Slide Squad Dave’s trips to Japan, he stayed with Hiroshi Takahashi of Running Free fame.  Dave was living my dream visiting shops, the race tracks we would see in the magazines and videos, riding in famous drift cars, driving at touge…  and every once in a while he would send e-mail updates along with videos and photos he was taking.

This was one of my favorites probably.

And yeah – he is eating with both hands while driving.

Irwindale Mystery

March 17th, 2010 2 comments

I just randomly found this picture of me on a french website.  I guess it’s somehow related to Mulsanne… I remember befriending an older French guy with Mulsanne on his business card.  I think that same business is somehow involved with a local drift team in Southern California.

Anyway, the picture is of me driving the KAAZ car at Irwindale in front of the D1 judges.   Funny – I can’t even remember what event this is!  The combination of me not remembering plus the picture shows barely any smoke tells me that I probably didn’t do very well.  But it’s still nice to see new pictures from the past!

More Old Pictures

February 24th, 2010 6 comments

I looked at my blog today and realized I don’t have any pictures of my car on here. I really should redesign the look and feel of this site. Until then, here are some old car pics.


From one of my early day touge drifting sessions. I was so into getting my front tire into that rain gutter. My favorite part of this picture was the flowers in front of my bumper.  Read one of my old posts about drifting at touge.


This is from Drift Day 9… LAS VEGAS! I drove my car there in the hellish heat with no a/c. We all remember that drive as one of the worst drives we ever made in our cars.  Read my blog post about the vegas drift event.

Drift Day 11 at Irwindale. This was my favorite look for my car... standard front silvia bumper with oem side skirts, oem rear unders and wangan spoiler. I liked my stickers like that as well.

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Another shot from Drift Day 11. My lovely concave face TE37s in the front :)

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Shot my speedo at Streets of Willow. Drifting at 55mph was a big deal for me back then! Fuel gauge not working. Ghetto!

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Throwback Blog Post: Riding with Team Orange

January 12th, 2010 No comments

I often think about the day in the following blog entry.  I wrote this before the term “blog” existed… it was an “online journal” that I had to manually update with my programming skills.

12.02.2003 – Riding Shotgun with Team Orange + Drift Showoff 3 @ Irwindale

I forgot about some of those details… I’m glad I’ve managed to keep this blog alive for so many years.

Pictures by Kyle

December 16th, 2009 2 comments

Logan sent me a picture he found on flickr… it was a picture of Nadine and I taken by my long time buddy Kyle. This got me looking through his photos and man… I miss those days!

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Back when it was a big deal to have an SR20DET, people wanted me to pop my hood and do burnouts. This time I did it with my silencer in. Bad idea.

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This was taken on the day that I met Nadine

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Before Ogawara Ken became Kenta the Japanese magazine editor, he used to hang out and signal that the roads were clear for drifting at touge

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The buddies doing a day time touge drive

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Kyle caught this picture of everybody standing around their cars with their hands in their pockets

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This is Option's Ikaten where Javier made it in the finals with Alex Pfeiffer and Andy Yen

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@ Drift Day 4 with Nadine and Kristy... parked next to Charlie's S13 coupe. You can see my TE37s there too... <3

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Ken chan in his original s13. The coolest thing about his car is that it had that v-opt.co.jp sticker on the windshield.

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@ Nissan Fest... love those sunset photos

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Nadine's car during my favorite phase... when it was red.

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Drifting with Nadine

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such a cool artsy shot of Cindy and her car

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I took this one of Steve's car and Kyle made it cool with Photoshop

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good ol' days when we used to race together

I’m always down for nostalgia

November 12th, 2009 No comments

I randomly found this blog post on everythingdrift.com dated September 27, 2009 right before the recent Irwindale event.  I guess there is somebody else out there that thinks about the first years of Formula D.

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This car was really really cool. So simple in certain ways and very innovative in others.