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Mar 12 2010, 01:30 PM
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Speedhunters
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Hello Speedhunters! My name is Romas Tamulevicius, I’m from Lithuania, and this is my work in progress - or as I like to call it – my money pit! :D Everything started with just an idea floating in my head that I needed to build a drift car for myself. Just for fun on the weekends and to have a car that could take a beating. As I’m a total gear head, as well as a Toyota fan, the choice was narrowed quite quickly to a Corolla – which is a pretty rare sight here! So while the...
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Posted
Feb 25 2010, 08:53 PM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 35 comment(s)
Pretty epic if you ask me, shot during a Driftireland practice day. -Jeroen Willemsen
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Posted
Feb 23 2010, 10:48 AM
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Jeroen Willemsen
with 12 comment(s)
The owner of the Spirant JZX100 also owns a AE86 and he decided to spice things up a bit by asking a friend to pinstripe the car. I thought it looked pretty cool... Maybe he's even going to start new trend. You can see some more photo's of the pinstriping and some other cool stuff on the owners blog . -Jeroen Willemsen
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Posted
Feb 12 2010, 04:20 PM
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Speedhunters
with 45 comment(s)
This project began to take shape back in 2005 when Pedro Carvalho, who always had a soft spot for the old Corolla TwinCam, bought an old red hachiroku. The car was now on its 7th owner... ...It was looking tired and had been poorly maintained with some evidence of a front collision. He didn’t drive the car a lot, in fact disassembly began the day he bought it. The body was fixed and straightened and in 2007 it was finally painted in Toyota’s Super White. In 2008 the now absolutely mint...
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Posted
Feb 10 2010, 11:33 AM
by
Linhbergh Nguyen
with 35 comment(s)
I came across lollerfest of a gem a while back on Banpei's
twitter page. For those of you that are missing some of that on-track sideways action during the winter months, this would be a fantastic and entertaining way of practicing during the off season!
-Linhbergh
Banpei.net
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Posted
Jan 13 2010, 04:01 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 32 comment(s)
Just a really neat photo from the always-cool Beeoneonoeoh blog.
NZ doing things right yet again.
-Mike Garrett...
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Posted
Dec 23 2009, 01:01 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 9 comment(s)
I thought I'd follow up yesterday's drag AE86 spotlight with a couple clips of the cars in action. Up above we have Isidoro's 8.78 second pass.
And here a clip of Mike's 8.81 pass.
These cars have reminded me just how damn cool drag racing can be...
-Mike Garrett
Videos from Boostiao.com
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Posted
Dec 22 2009, 03:48 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 30 comment(s)
We've featured A LOT of different AE86's on Speedhunters. Way more than I can count. The vast majority of these have been drift or circuit cars, but here we have a pair of Truenos built for one thing, and one thing only - ripping down the quarter mile as quickly as possible. With a lightweight, rear-drive chassis the AE86 makes a fine drag machine, and Isidoro and Mike of the Domincan Republic have used the AE86 chassis to create two of the coolest import drag cars I've ever seen....
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Posted
Nov 19 2009, 01:53 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 27 comment(s)
This past August, I was invited to be a guest judge at a local drift Drift Mania West event, held at Western Speedway in Victoria BC, Canada. As you can expect at typical North American grass roots drift event, the majority of the cars competing were S chassis of various types. But one drifter chose to break the mold with his choice of car and went in a more old school direction: his name is Chris Scremin and this is his 1985 SR-86. Chris is one of the top drifters in the west coast Canadian scene...
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Posted
Nov 07 2009, 01:22 PM
by
Patrick McGrath
with 25 comment(s)
When I met Darren for his headshots for the DMac retrospective , he had only just put the finishing touches to the latest incarnation of the MCNSport AE86. It's been several months since I last saw the car tucked away at the MCNSport shop; before that it was at an AE86 trackday at Mondello Park. I'd heard a few rumours circulating around for a while that the guys were planning all sorts of different engine conversions for the lightweight Trueno. 20V's and Formula Atlantic 4AGE's were...
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Posted
Oct 20 2009, 04:30 AM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 29 comment(s)
With the D1 Grand Prix all done for a good five months I thought it would be cool to take a look back over the last few years and more to the point at some of the top drifters that have participated in the Japanese drift championship. I've picked two names that are synonymous with D1, drivers that for some reason or another are no longer competing at a professional level in Japan. First up is Katsuhiro Ueo, in my opinion the best AE86 drifter out there... ...driver of the unmistakable Racing...
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Posted
Oct 06 2009, 11:31 AM
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Jeroen Willemsen
with 102 comment(s)
After so many rumors I think our prayers have been heard, at least at the design studio of Toyota in France. They designed this successor of the Corolla AE86 that will be debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show. Luckily for us Dino will be covering this show so I'm sure he will get us all the details surrounding this car. I do know that it will be powered by a 2.0 liter boxer engine that has been developed by Subaru and that it will be rear wheel driven. The engine has been placed as far back as possible...
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Posted
Sep 11 2009, 11:03 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 107 comment(s)
In the early days of Speedhunters, whenever the subject matter of Need for Speed came up, it became clear that you guys thought we suffered from bad car style. And rightly so, it was the nature of the way that the 3D car models were created in the old games, that ended up with the same basic group of kit designs being used across all the various cars, irrespective of the model. We also had a situation whereby our old "rice" style wide body kits were being recycled from year to year, even...
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Posted
Aug 31 2009, 12:00 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 39 comment(s)
Thanks to everyone who sent in their photos!... BTW We are thinking to run something similar for September's BMW month for 3 Series owners... think that will work? Are BMW owners as passionate and devoted to their cars as their AE86 contemporaries? Well we are about to find out!... In the mean time here are the last group of AE86 photo submissions from around the world....
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Posted
Aug 31 2009, 06:19 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 44 comment(s)
The whole time I was at Formula D Seattle and Bonneville Speed Week in Utah my blackberry was buzzing away with late submissions for our AE86 day community celebration posts.... We thought it would be fitting to post up all the additional photo submissions... so without further adieu here we go... more photos from the AE86 global massive!...
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Posted
Aug 25 2009, 03:30 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 21 comment(s)
Ok, let's jump straight in to part two of my Drift Mania West judging adventure... As I had to attend to judging the drift runs from qualifying on, this blog post isn't going to read like a regular event report as I was unable to shoot the action during these sessions... But I'll do my best to share with you my own observations from the event.... someone requested more shots of the S12, so here you go! Now that I have the use of a proper camera to shoot events and features, I've been...
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Posted
Aug 07 2009, 01:30 AM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 4 comment(s)
Thought it would be a good idea to end the AE86 day with a wallpaper post, and what better car than the Crystal Body Yokohama AE86 from last night's meeting in Daikoku. Head to the Desktop section to grab the widescreen and standard versions. Enjoy. -Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Posted
Aug 06 2009, 11:45 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 12 comment(s)
As my final post for the AE86 day I wanted to show you guys probably one of the nicest street going hachiroku out there. This car is owned my Miguel of Newera Imports, and since picking it up about 4 years ago has gone well and truly crazy on it. Miguel instantly fell in love with his Levin and knew it would be hard to hold back on the modifications. He set himself a goal of creating a car that would be at home on the street as well as on the track... ...drifting as well as gripping. First up was...
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Posted
Aug 06 2009, 10:00 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 18 comment(s)
With the AE86 day coming to a close it's time to take a look at the second part of the coverage from last night's hachiroku gathering at Daikoku PA, starting with the Crystal Body Yokohama demo car which rolled in later on in the night. CBY is one of the biggest names in AE86 tuning and creates parts... ...like the rear FRP gate so many people use on their 86s. Hatchback or sedan? Tough choice! Daikoku PA is the perfect place do some general maintenance to your car, there is plenty of light...
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Posted
Aug 06 2009, 12:15 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 11 comment(s)
For my 86 Day contribution, I originally had this idea to do a post with 86 different photos of AE86's. Although that would probably set a record for the longest Speedhunters post ever, it turns out that it would be a quite a time consuming process.
Instead, I settled on 20 different AE86 photos I've shot at both drift and grip events in Japan. There's an interesting mix of cars here, and all of them represent the 86's never-ending popularity in its homeland....
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