Do you remember this picture of the Drift King?

Two Keiichi Tsuchiyas?
I posted that picture of Keiichi Tsuchiya in his younger years half a year ago. Back then I judged from his glasses that it shot was before he did the Pluspy video and now I got proof of that! A new rogue video of Keiichi drifing in the early 80s emerged where he drifts several cars (including a Corolla TE37, Sunny B210 and a Skyline C110!) on his home touge and he does wear the very same glasses:

Keiichi Tsuchiya rogue video
Unfortunately the user who posted it on Youtube did not allow the video to be embedded, so you will have to do with the screenshot above. To watch the video go here:
Keiichi Tsuchiya drifting touges before his freshman series

I found this Toyota Carina AA63 sedan caught on celluloid doing an early morning touge practice on Minkara:

Carina AA63 morning practice at a touge
I love the smell of rubber in the morning!
Just a damn beautiful sight!

Here is another one from the same corner/angle:
After the jump more pictures and info...

Now this is nice for a change: a Toyota Carina AA63 and a Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 drifting on a touge near Sagamiko in 1997! You can see the Carina after 1:56:

The AE86 driver clearly has a lot of skill: he drifts those corners exactly as Keiichi Tsuchya would have done in his AE86 back in 1997! He also drifts as skillful both uphill and downhill and both during day and night!

The Carina driver is not that skilled: he spins out 3 out of 4 times. On the other hand you can see him having engine trouble at the end of the video. According to ae86lan the Carina had a stock exhaust with a rust hole in it, so that is the source of that nice sound. :D

I posted some old footage of touge drifting in 1996 before, but now 86ers.org found some more vintage videos from the early 90s. This was years before Shuichi Shigeno even moved his pencil enough to create Initial D!

The drifting looks very skilled for those days. Even though we are used to much higher speeds 17 years later it still looks quite fast drifting for an AE86 drifting uphill! The music kind of reminds me of the terrible music they used for all anime openings early 90s! Somehow I'm glad they did not use this type of music for Initial D. :D

The second video has a better taste in music:

In the second video they are drifting uphill again. That brings me to another thing: why are they drifting uphill? Isn't it much better to drift downhill?

Apart from drifting uphill: I see some very nice drifts and some other cars than the AE86: a B310, a TE71 and a KP61. Ah, can't we just go back to the 90s when the amount of horsepower didn't matter that much?

Time for some more old drift footage from a decade ago!
This video features some pre Initial D anime fanatics drifting on a wide touge:

For spotters: I did spot some AE86s, Silvias (S13 and S14), 180SX-es, one Sil80, a Skyline GTR R33, JZX81, JZX91, C33 Laurel, Soarer Z30, Celica XX Mk2 and a Starlet. That's about half of the JDM 80s and early 90s in cars! :D

What strikes me in this video is the way the 4 door saloons are going wide is just the same as they are doing nowadays, in contrary of the hachi-rokus and Silvias. I guess that technique is no different: just rush in too fast and have the weight of the rear do the work for you while pushing the pedal to the metal.