This is my S14 from long ago (04-05):
Dcar by
maximstensel, on Flickr
These guys (D-Car magazine) came and did a story on the canyon near LA I used to run at all the time. It looks so grainy because this was a little tiny box, only like 1/8th of the page. (For those who read some Japanese and are wondering, they called all the S13s with pop-ups "240SX", but listed my S14 and a friend's as "Silvia".)
Here's a more normal pic -
By the time I put the car in a wall, it looked pretty different from what you see here, by the way. It had by that time grown a pair of rally lights (poorly wired and bolted to the bumper...), a carbon hood and ridiculous GT wing, and a bunch of other crap. Oh, and zipties everywhere...
Anyway, the car was built up as a drifty car, but I sucked at drifting. Bought the car, threw a bunch of parts at it, did a few drift days where I mostly spun out, and then wrecked the car. I was a noob performance driver then, with little understanding of car control and less of car setup, it'd be fun to build a drift car again and see how I'd do now.
The coolest part of being into drifting in those days was the people I met. I knew a lot of the guys who make up the Formula D roster. I remember one night when four of the well-known guys showed up at the mountain with a trailer, and out rolled their D1/FD car, which they proceeded to do a few drift runs around the hill in.
Another time, Jeff Jones, who drive a 240 in FD a few years ago, almost killed me while I was watching him drift in his FC. We'd walked up the road to a safe place to watch, and were on our way back to our cars after he said he was done. He decided to do another run, his tail went wide, and his rear wheel went right over the curb I'd been standing on - only missing me because I jumped over the mountainside and was hanging onto a tree!
I have Kazama's victory champagne bottle from Irwindale D1 '04 or '05 at my parents' house somewhere, signed by Kazama and runner-up Imamura. There's a piece of Gittin's old 240's front bumper from an FD round he won stashed there too.
