First Post

Here is my "story" I guess. I got into drifting only about 3 years ago or so but I didn't have a license or know much about it at all. I'm not one of those guys that watched Initial D and was hooked. Actually I watched Formula D on G4TV when it was on that channel and that is what got me into drifting. I have been into cars my whole life mostly from my Dad and me going to car shows.

When I was only twelve my Mom passed away from cancer and I immediately became best friends with my Dad. We did everything together. We hung out more and although at that time I wasn't as into cars as I am now I think thats what really started to make them my main thing.

My Dad taught me to play drums when I was five years old and about a year before my mothers passing a few friends and I started a band. This was my main focus until about the middle of my sophomore year in High School and I decided to go to the Skills Center for the Automotive Technology Program. This made my love for cars resurface again and become my main focus. I am not in any of the bands I was in anymore and have complete focus on cars, drifting, and being competitive.

My first car was a 1991 Toyota Corolla sedan, and it was an automatic. This car, however slow it was, was amazingly reliable, and is what made the Corolla the car I would always want to have. I then searched to find a Corolla that would better suite higher performance driving, and of course the car that came up was the AE86. Ever sense I learned the very little I did that first time about the AE86 I was in love with them and in love with Toyota in general.

On February 15th, 2009 my Dad passed away which left me with no parents at the age of seventeen. I moved in with my brother and finished High School (barely). The money I got from my Dad passing is what is funding my need to be a competitive drifter. I think that if the situation was different and I got the money in a different way this would be what my Dad wanted me to do with the money.

Anyways thats my story about how I got into drifting and what has brought me to this build

So this is going to be the more available build log of what I am calling the Turquoise Turtle.