Drift Tengoku — October 2003

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English draft translations are available throughout this issue. Unclear or unreadable OCR remains flagged; these drafts have not received full image proofreading. The archive retains 310 scan files, including two duplicate captures, representing 308 unique pages.

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Page 144 · English draft

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  1. We have featured surprising-looking Skylines before,but never knew cars this distinctive traveled as a group!Their owners are famous among Kagoshima and Miyazaki street racers,drifting mountain passes in these outrageous Skylines.Looks are not the only surprise:all four have RB26 engines and equally extreme performance! [OCR damaged]
  2. R33 tail lamps transplanted into an R32 [damaged]
  3. BNR34 front end transplanted onto an R33 [damaged]
  4. From Kagoshima!
  5. A most unusual Skyline quartet discovered!
  6. Quartet
  7. Resonating Skylines—the pursuit of individuality accelerated!Any southern-Kyushu drifter who does not know Kanabun Kobayashi is missing out.His skill and appearance are unforgettable:a green-metallic R33 that looks gold from some angles,with a BNR34 face!When Drift Tengoku contacted him for coverage,we heard an interesting story:three other Skylines were just as striking.The staff went to Kagoshima,and immediately after reaching the airport were led to a garage.This was the scene.What happened here?None of them was ordinary…[OCR damaged;continued]
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  9. These four belong to members of…[team name damaged]and Number…[team name damaged].Kobayashi’s bad influence,perhaps,brought these unusual Skylines together.He left Kagoshima for work and began serious drifting in Tokushima,creating his beetle-colored R33.After an accident while stationed in Okinawa,he rebuilt it with a BNR34 face to stand out.Returning to Kagoshima about two years ago,he kept his Okinawa team name and formed its Kagoshima/Miyazaki branch with junior-high classmate Sakurai,another Skyline driver.Kobayashi’s striking ECR33 and Sakurai’s RB26-powered R32 quickly became famous on the passes,and apparently inspired more Skyline owners in Kagoshima…[OCR damaged]
  10. …his Skyline…[damaged fragment]
  11. …Skyline ownership increased [damaged continuation].
  12. As he became more famous on Kagoshima/Miyazaki passes,people increasingly claimed to have seen him driving where he had no recollection of being.Apparently there was another flashy Skyline.“I was confident nobody else had a car this conspicuous,so I could not believe being mistaken for someone else,”says Kobayashi.The other owner was Shinchi,a rapidly improving driver in Miyazaki’s Number…team [name damaged].“I was also repeatedly asked if I was Kanabun.”His full-aero ECR33 had a…body and black roof [body color damaged]—definitely flashy.They bonded as Skyline-loving drifters and began traveling together.Sakurai was naturally influenced too.“The R33 two-door has the best tail of all Skylines,”he said,and transplanted its lamps onto his R32.Then junior teammate Inoue,owner of a BNR32,asked Sakurai,“I want to stand out at track days—give it a BNR34 face!”In just three days,his BNR32 had one.What incredible people in Kagoshima and Miyazaki!A group modifying Skylines this much…[OCR damaged;continued]
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  15. …probably cannot be found anywhere else in Japan! [damaged]
  16. Photography assistance:…[shop name damaged]
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  18. Photography:Shinya Hattori [name reading uncertain]