Drift Tengoku — October 2013
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About this issue
188 available scans from Drift Tengoku — October 2013, in right-to-left reading order. Japanese OCR and English translation drafts are available throughout. Drafts have not received exhaustive image proofreading; unreadable source remains recorded in the archival data.
Page 100 — English draft translation
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Men’s pink metallic!
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Men
Men’s red fundoshi!
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LOGOS
…stay there
…into memory
More than records…
Men’s big celebration!
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A man’s back—using inverted word order!
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Run Limited
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OILT (as read)
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It’s fun because it’s limited! Men’s Four Tires Festival
At Nikko Circuit
Men’s pink glitter!
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Men’s one-cut!
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The woman among the men!
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In the paddock
While the opening feature is about students’ car modifications, this section takes on grown-up men’s stories. We picked some tough, hard-edged examples. This time we are focusing more on serious ideas than silly jokes!
Even at Nikko, only the Men’s Four Tires event…
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He has the guts to spend the whole day in a red fundoshi, from the morning drivers’ meeting through the closing ceremony. The man on the right is Wonder’s organizer, Haruyama. The fundoshi-clad man is neither a Wonder employee nor a drift driver; apparently he owns a Laurel and frequents the shop.
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I have never seen one carved into a chair before. It is a familiar phrase, but the inverted word order gives it style. It reminds me of the famous ‘I will become the Pirate King!’ line.
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The details are elaborate: added ducts give the aero a custom look, and the fenders have an unusual shape. The rear fenders and door panels are smoothed together with putty, and there is a diffuser too. Are those Racing Hart wheels? The rims look about 140 mm wide!
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A cute touch on an otherwise masculine Cresta: removing the shield makes it easier to talk inside. We spotted this detail and had to photograph it.
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He even added a plastic-sheet visor along with the LED… ‘Omori love’—it looks like a person’s name when written out.
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The lever is pink too! The floor mats match with a pink-and-black checker pattern. It is great that the interior is not cluttered. This is a top-class look that even works in a man’s car! Can we name it Miss Four-Door?
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They also brought a parasol so they could relax between runs. The stand was cleverly made by removing the camera tripod head and inserting the parasol into the tube. Nice idea!
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Every year this man wears this outfit to handle registration and work as the event’s “camp boy.” You could call him a man among men.
Writing and sticking things all over the dashboard is commonplace now. But that does not mean…
The pink-metallic and silver two-tone paint makes a huge impression, and the bodywork is impressive too…
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Matching helmets instead of matching outfits! They painted the same helmet model in the same pink glitter…
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To make the old incandescent-bulb, mechanical Omori gauge look a little newer, tape was added around it like a bezel…
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The inside of the doors has been reupholstered in pink fabric, and the shift knob and extended handbrake lever…
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A beach parasol and beach bed—this is the ultimate summer style! With a chair, cooler box, and sun…
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He has treasured the Sparco suit for a long time, but almost none of the original Sparco fabric remains…
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