Heres a sneap peak photo of Hoshino’s new FD hes working on. It just another one of his hobby cars that will be sold once he gets bored with it, or finds another car he wants.

More pictures and article coming soon.

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Driving to a Subaru company class I spotted this 180sx rolling on XR4’s, so I quickly jumped out and got a couple snaps. Now it may not be sitting on its rails or shakotan (really low ride height in Japanese) but it has all the ingrediants to be a good looking car, nice front fenders, old school offset, cool twin pipes, but it just needs to dropped 3-4 inches all round.

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Show me the money, or lack of after this transaction……
Just had to pay for the Kei car and all its tax, name change, and towing fees to Isesaki, i hate bills!

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My JZX90 is running out of Shaken soon so it means I can no longer driver it around on the road. So it was time to get another car for my daily tasks and just tow the JZX90 around on Hoshino’s truck or rock slash plates (3-5 day temporary number plates) when I need to get it to the track.

I picked this beauty up today off yahoo auctions, packed with 64 horses under the bonnet and a few minor mods.
Excuse the low quality yahoo auction pictures.

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When the snow falls and the drifting season takes a 2-3 month break in Japan what does everyone do?

Snowboarding and Kei Car drifting!

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I have never owned a better set of gloves then these items from URAS. Everytime I go karting or drifting I make sure I never leave my house without them. Also reminds me I have an ORC Go Karting article coming up soon, packed with photos and videos, stay tuned!

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These are just some pictures pulled out of a Japanese drift magazine called Drift Tengoku or Dori-Ten for short.

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I suppose if your in Japan right now its almost mandatory to post a picture of some sort to do to with Sakura (cherry blossom). It really is a beautiful time in Japan but I just prefer the colder months of the year. These were just some quick phone snaps, went to a nice park last night with the misses and took some proper photos so I will post them up later in Part II.

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So what do we do when we arn’t driving our life size cars? We drift RC cars. We use to have quite a few big RC nights where all the team / friends would get together and battle it out all night. We dont do it as much now days but every now and then we will pull them out for a quick spin around Hoshino’s track at his workshop.

My personal car, I’m not huge on looks but its got a tuned ECU, aftermarket engine, locked front and rear diffs, plastic / rubber mix tires for higher speed drifting and bad ass scando flicks, something you can’t do running normal hard plastic tires.

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Heres a quick snap shot of the roads leading around Hakone from the GPS.
These roads became famous from the popular anime series Initial D where this mountain was known as Akina.

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