In January I was lucky enough to be able to attend the ASD Mob Seminar up in Charlotte. What an AMAZING amazing experience. Ian, Dave, and the crew as ASD know their stuff like no other team in Formula Drift. There. I said it. The fact that they wanted to give back to the grassroots community with a program like this is really too phenomenal for words. The things they taught us totally made me re-think everything in regard to car-setup for drifting. I seriously can never thank these guys enough!
In May, I ran in the Warrior Dash with (left to right) my brother Jonathan, Dad, Mom, Tom Hanks from Castaway, and parent’s friend Joel.
Everyone HAS to do one of these races. It is REALLY fun, and a very wild race! The obstacles are actually a nice way to break up the distance. I won’t lie – you get filthy dirty in ways you can’t really imagine until you do it. But it is an absolute RIOT!
Also, in May… I picked up another guitar I’ve always wanted. Definitely a staple for both heavy metal and rock and roll. An Epiphone Flying V. I also snagged a sweet li’l mini-stack by Marshall.
In June, Alex let me borrow his Honda Camino, and I went with he, Eugene, and the rest of the Swoop Jockeys on a 50+ mile moped ride from Cabbagetown all the way to Northpoint Mall for the Cars and Coffee meet. I don’t know what it was about these crappy old neglected things… but I kinda fell in love with them. As fate would have it, Chad wanted to get rid of his old Tomos A35… so I bought his!
I started sanding the paint off, put new bars, seat, controls, taillight, and made a super-sweet headlight cover with a broken Hella cover from the truck. I also made a nice chain guard out of an old ’71 Georgia license plate. I still need to get the rest of the teal off the bike – but it is definitely starting to feel more-and-more like mine.
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Every Sunday morning, I’ve been riding around Atlanta with these guys… having a blast. We rode through the historic Pullman Yard, and I happened to have my Contour on me. This was a really fun ride!
In light of riding basically mini-motorcycles, I decided to take an MSF class with Cody, Wes, and Alex. It is something I would recommend to anyone who wants to ride a motorcycle of any kind. We learned a lot, and I feel a lot safer when I ride now as a result. We all passed both the riding and written tests… so at the end of the weekend, we all got our motorcycle licenses!
I’ve been working a bit on tidying up the garage as well. I plan on putting up pegboard on the left-side wall to help free up some space. There isn’t a lot of room to move around in there, and I want to try and help it breathe a bit. The BMW has been sitting for a while, with the rear-end still broken. I’ve been too busy with work to really mess with it, but in the next month-or-so, plan to have it back up and running again!
Random (and awesome) choke-and-puke en-route to Virginia for the North vs. South event at VIR.
Drew sent me these funny snaps from the pits at Road Atlanta. I think Ross has some overcranked video of this as well.
Scary.
I stumbled across my old Nokia 3650 which had a 16mb SD card in it. To my surprise… it had a slew of old photos and video on it from around 2002-2004. A fun trip down memory lane for sure.
My best friend Hooman when he was working at United BMW in Roswell.
Random shredded Bridgestone at GTE.
My Corolla preparing to fail emissions miserably.
My car on the lift at the OLD Batlground Engineering.
One3 Creative computer upgrades.
My good friend Michael at Jack in the Box after GT Live in 2004.
My 330i loaner car and Jason Greene’s ’64 Impala outside the old One3 studio.
My Corolla feeling sleepy the night I bought it.
On stage the last night I played with my old band: Katapolt.
New transmission for the e46.
My Corolla… freshly panda’d.
The Autopower rollcage for the e46 that was promptly returned to have a full custom cage built instead.
These photos were in this order on the phone… it looks like the vinyl gets washed off at Cactus Carwash.
Superior erecting. That’s right.
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I came across this old picture of me and my best friend Hooman from the summer of ’96. I developed this test strip in my high school photo class, hence the sever discoloration over the past 13 years.
Before finally retiring my Sidekick II, I dumped the remaining photos to my iMac. I knew once the switch was made to AT&T, T-Mobile would erase everything. There were photos on that phone that I refused to delete… from day one. It was always fun to randomly scroll through them and remember some good times.
After Formula D Sonoma, 2005… I may or may not have tagged an unsuspecting patrol car with a “Drifting Is Not A Crime” sticker.
Headed back from Sonoma on that same trip, we detoured through Vegas, and I rented this 348 Spider.
Sitting in grid at Formula D Chicago in 2005. That’s right… WOOD GRAIN.
Random snap outside One3 Creative when I was rocking handlebars.
Gas station sign in the middle of nowhere. I spotted this in the Southewest on my way out to Formula D Irwindale in 2005.
Fast forward to the summer of 2006. During the shooting of Slide America we found ourselves sleeping in empty offices at MySpace while rnour buddy Jacob Leveton finished working the night shift. It seemed fitting to take a “MySpace Picture” in the MySpace bathroom.
The back of the rental van (that we beat the living hell out of) towards the end of principal photography for Slide America.
Minutes after driving off the lot in The Destroyer™… January 2007.
My dry-erase board marking the completion of editing Slide America… May 2007.
Having Nascar-style door-bars welded into my rollcage up at J3 Racing. One of the largest and CLEANEST shops I have ever been in. rnI literally ate off the floor.
Post-surgical x-rays of the 7″ plate and 8 screws now permanent to my collar. September 2007.
Every Racing Dynamics wheel I own… including the (then unused) chrome set… all mounted up c/o Gran Turismo East rnand ready for thrashing at DMGGMASD. October 2008.
And last… but not least… the Pushead desktop image that I rocked for 4 years.
After a run of 4 years… it is time to retire my Sidekick II. I picked it up in 2005, and only had to replace the screen once, where I accidentally shattered the LCD against the tailgate of my truck. This phone had a great run… but the iPhone has called me on to greener pastures.
A satellite view of Turner Field shows remnants legal drifting in downtown AtlantaThis must be an old image… because this lot is black nowSo crazy!
A lot of wrench time went down in this garage. Between my ol’ eight-six’s delinquent functionality, and 3 years of pro drift-car maintenance on the E46… countless hours have been spent. Fans running, metal blaring, and wrenches clicking… this garage will definitely be missed.Some ol’ pics in lieu of my nostalgia
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