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Boner Jam Part 2: More Asbestos!

Photo dump to follow up Discoquinn's Boner Jams post. There will be some more pics, I ran into a bit of a computer issue that slowed the entire process down. [gallery] If any of the drivers are interested, large format prints can be made from any of these images for a small large fee.


Banshee, Japan?

No, it's not a Grand Theft Auto car. You live all the way in Japan and can't quite afford to import the most likely crushed, '88 Pontiac Banshee concept car? No worries mon' Just import a 4th gen Camaro and have the little Japanese gnomes assemble one for you! That's right, surfing around the Yahoo auctions found me some prime junk! Who imports a whole Firebird just to hack it into a look-a-like! Crazy! The original ad can be found here.


Boner Jam

This has nothing to do with erections. Don't even think about them when reading this. Boner is usually associated with Penis's, but it's actually a synonym for blunder, or error. In a way this association was crudely acute to an other wise very fun and successful drifting event.  Honesty first, the jam was great, good layout, very casual and some really good driving. A decent turnout for what I expected would show on a Wednesday morning. The first boner I noticed was the good flow of drivers onto the track, this was...


Summer Spent Sliding

Just a really good video from the guys at Drift Safari [vimeo 15307446]


Itasharism

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"]Tokyo Auto Salon 2009: Navel "Oretachi ni...[/caption]
So, browsin' and surfin' like the electronic thug I am. I came across an Itasha video and upon opening was blown away, not by the Itasha vehicles, that's nothing new, just the hilarious reporting.
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That was pretty funny to watch, he struggles and it's kinda sad, but it's good he knows what he likes. Looking through the related videos, this video had...