shitboxes and skid racers

Here is a little intro to myself…
Been around 240’s for awhile, started out about three years ago with this.


94 vert with 122 original km. Automatic, bone stock… drove it for two years until a caliper seized.
Replacing the caliper i decided wellllll, I might as well 5 lug/z brake/rebuild rear subframe/coils/sways/etc. Basically I had too much money, and no damn brains in my head. Whatever. Got fed up with being an idiot, and stuck it in the garage to forget about it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/DSC01142.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/DSC01145.jpg

Bought this.
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She was a ten-footer. Looked great at ten feet. Just for the love of god… don’t look at the frame above the gas tank. Fuck. Whatever… drove it for a summer. Parked it. The collection grows.

Bought this. Sport maxx’s, 4x4 ride height, grippy tires, dying clutch. Drove fantastic, unreal grip car, handled perfect…


A practical good handling car? Not what I was looking for. After a summer of tracking, scraping over everything, and a couple ditches it looked something like this.


Diamond wheels, megan coils maxed out with both collars out, wood wheel, dildo knob… a bunch of other jdm drifto fanboy things. Slid great.

Sold that just as I became happy with it.
Bought this giant peice of doodoo.


89 180sx with a blacktop sr. Complete with such features as:
Duck taped silvia front end.
Cut harness with zero proper connectors, just bunny ears and tape.
Amperage gauge in cabin, running on a too-small gauge wire. CUT IN ON THE STARTER WIRE. (yes, it lit my cabin on fire) (twice)
Carefully hidden bondo job on rear fender.
16x7 +35 Volk CE28 knock off icon rims
Spraypainted BLITZ on an XSpower intercooler
peeling paint.
Great car. Stupid previous owner. (EXCEPT FOR RYAN, He’s a good dude)
Wheel fitment 101!

Boobs.
After much bullshit and redoing the whole engine harness etc… oh, and kicking that sil80 shit to the curb (can be done right, not my style though)


Slid it around. Broke it some. Fixed it.


Tool box.

The 180 ended up looking like this when I sold it.



I’ve own a bunch of shitty cars.

'87 325is. Straight pipes. Ziptied. Now with wide steelies.

'90 Skyline GTS-T. NEO rb25det. r33 front end (barf). Co owned with Rustbucket… never really done anything to it.

'87 ae86 gts. POS parts car.

'94 Vert. Still have it. Gave it to my mom for christmas

'85 Cressida.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/n502687990_1102317_6341jpg.jpg

'87 AE87 gts. Caged, tubz, fuel cell, custom harness, aux HVAC, custom chromoly 4 link, s13 front suspension, t3 coils, t3 everything actually. It was cool. Sold it.

Got this!


40 hours later it was this!


then s14 sr, fmic, cage, tie rods, multilink, new bushings, a full overhaul

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/IMG00137-20090830-1546.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/DSC_0488.jpg

While I was building that… I also built this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/ed5c86b5.jpg
Coils, sr, blast pipes, 18’s, brides, etc. Worked great!
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Sold that

Bought this!
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Hated it. Traded it after 20 days.

for this!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/16231_163014892990_502687990_276477.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/DSC_0632.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/IMG00416-20091022-1326.jpg

Brings a tear to my eye *

So far, I’ve been around everyone of your cars Marky.

SOOOOO… that was a copy and paste from another forum.

Here is some authentic SON content

I currently run UNION auto club.

SHAMELESS BLURB-PLUG

"We’ve been around for about 2 years now… I basically just started the whole thing to keep building the local drift scene we have. Because we are organized as a club, it offers us the chance to keep costs low, and still allow us to be on the forefront of street car fabrication. We like building our own cars, and when we get the chance to build it for someone else, sweet. I’ve got a full-time fabricator and a full time mechanic on staff. We do everything from motor swaps to roll cages to multi link arms. My guys are extremely talented, and there is no way that anything cool would ever happen without them.

As for past work… a lot of it never got documented, just because we were doing it for the love of doing it. Funny how having an outlet (the blog) makes you want to take pictures of everything!

But the bare-bones of it all is…

If people stopped giving us money to do the things we do, we’d still be doing it. We might not have as nice of a shop, or that new tube bender… but we’d still be driving, and we’d still be building cars.

Love of the game!"

anyways… I currently have my r32 4-door, and my s13 vert. Here is some current-ish pictures.

Vert:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/DSC_0224-1.jpg


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R32:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/DSC_0026-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/DSC_0029-1.jpg
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I’ll post a bit more on this later… I’ve got some new stuff coming for both cars.

ballin man, that was better than a movie! lol

Fuck paint

LOL…I am really digging this thread as well. Its fun to see one man go through so many machines. And each one of them have a different story to tell…some good…some bad.

Why do we love cars again?

Pretty coooool

that sounded like a combination of car ocd combined with a lot of money

how come you’ve never owned a s14?

^ Good question

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/ridepinktrucks/DSC_0029-1.jpg
your making my car famous haha (left) lol

I don’t know… never really been into them.

I’d like to build a kouki sometime soon… but if it came down to it, I’d probably just buy a silvia/180.

Nice car collection you’ve had mark. And I agree you should build an s14 sometime.

Nice shit…the hatch looked really good with those rims

s14’s are gay thats why

“Boobs” LOL thats what i said out loud when i saw that pic!

My g/f wants to touch your g/f’s boobs…
(no joke, lol)

That is definitely not my girlfriend.

hahahahahahahahah.

I think a couple members on here can attest to that.

I have more pictures though.

“s14’s are gay thats why”

lol says the guy who drives a miata…

4 door skylines are the shitt! I hope to see more great projects by you and Union!

and i thought i had OCD shit. . . LOL . . . Mark you have had a nice collection of cars. keep up the good work cause your KILLIN IT !