What Grinds Mitch's Gears

(posted on behalf of Mitch)

I've probably missed the bus on this topic, but whatever.

Drift is growing. It had a big boom due to F&F a while back, which taught me heaps and shit, and then slowed down again. But it hasn't stopped.

Frequenting a few forums gives a look at what people are doing, and how much the scene is growing by, and at times, it's scary.

There's heaps of sweet dudes in the drift scene and room for plenty more, but seriously

SO MANY DOUCHEBAGS are trying to join in.

Now I know expansion of the sport is great, blah blah blah. But any loss of the grass roots nature is terrible.

Fuck, I digress.

My biggest gripe, is tools with minimal knowledge of cars attending a drift event, getting all excited, then going and spending their hard earned dole money on 'building' a sweet as 'drift' car.

You know the ones: grand aspirations of raised cradles, every suspension part available, custom this and that, seam welded and caged and etc. But it never comes to fruition. What was previously a useable shell becomes scrap that would take hard work to make into even a standard car again.

It ends up in the for sale section, and the 'builder' either moves onto some other unfortunate scene that catches their eye, or they see the light and buy a basic car and do skids.

This blog is already too long and i've whinged enough. Pics of fails:

A guy bought this, and is fixing someone elses fail. Check the seam welding broo.

My old shell i started to build. Had so much fail already installed, i cbf'd fixing so scrapped it and moved on.

And now i'm too lazy to find more photos. You get the idea i'm sure.

Btw: I do like proper builds, but I'm a solid campaigner for 'Seat Time > Building'

:D