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Video: old school drifting in Funabashi (Chiba)

January 13, 2011 / / 3 Comments

TwinTurboRS posted his 100th video and it is a very very very long street drift video (47 minutes!) from a long long long time ago on Youtube in the Funabashi near the pear area (Chiba prefecture) featuring many AE86s, RX7 FCs, Skyline R30s and even a Carina TA63 @8:45:

Unfortunately embedding is disabled, so you will have to click on the picture to watch the video!

Even in the intro you can even see a 8 spoke RS Watanabe in a pile of discarded wheels! Madness! Enjoy 47 minutes of madness!

Found at [TwinTurboRS]

DOTS: patient Mitsubishi 3000GT

January 9, 2011 / / 0 Comments


I was cleaning up some old previous phonecam pictures and came across this Mitsubishi 3000GT I shot somewhere in September last year. It was patiently waiting at one of the railway crossings near my work:
Down on the street: Mitsubishi 3000GT
Down on the street: Mitsubishi 3000GT
I could only shoot the picture from behind this van since it was blocking my way (I was biking)

When the railway crossing opened up I was able to follow it and was able to make this action shot:
Down on the street: Mitsubishi 3000GT
Down on the street: Mitsubishi 3000GT
Even for a crappy (Nokia) phonecam I was amazed by the outcome of this picture! ?(ยด???)

The Mitsubishi 3000GT only sold in very low numbers in the Netherlands and this must have been the second time I saw one ever. Oh those fond memories of running this car in the first Sega GT against its Skyline GT-R rivals! (?????)

DOTS: Sheepish Porsche 911

January 3, 2011 / / 2 Comments

Last week I spent a couple of days in Berlin. Of course I hoped to spot some nice JDM tin but the most interesting Japanese car I found was a rusty Corolla Liftback AE90. Either the Germans love their own cars so much that they don’t buy anything but Porsche, Mercedes or BMW, or it could have been that the center of Berlin (Charlottenburg and Mitte) are only occupied by the rich and famous.

Personally, given this example found in the street of my hotel, I think it was the latter:
Sheepish 911 (actually a 997)
Sheepish 911 (997 model)
Apparently owning a Porsche 911 (996997 model) is not enough anymore, but also a vanity plate with 911 in it is needed! The plate bleats 911 all over it. Would that have been on purpose? This 996997 isn’t particular a wolf in sheep’s clothing. ;)

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