Who are the first USA drifters?

[Brian]

SLIDE SQUAD, right?

They had those cars in Super Street magazine a long time ago.

:lfault:

[BustedS13]

pretty sure the first American drift technician was "Lisa Kubo".

or was it "Sharon Sotto", she had a lot to do with the import "scene"

[Jimmy Up]

Somebody told me it was you lol...


guess not

[HyperTek]

i have that issue somewhere with ricky chu's s14 on the cover, and the article with slidesquad, blue s13 & the camo civic.. did he really drift that?

where they doin it b4 sileightymaina?

remember Drifting magazine said Brian Norris was an OG

[MrMigs]

wtf lol... well, I remember Andy Yen smashing it up on the mountains in his funky beige hachi-rolla way back like in 1999/2000. Bastard was freaking fast and reckless lol. Only way to roll. :p

[zorak]

stunt drivers in the 90s.

IDK.

[racepar1]

i have that issue somewhere with ricky chu's s14 on the cover, and the article with slidesquad, blue s13 & the camo civic.. did he really drift that?

where they doin it b4 sileightymaina?

remember Drifting magazine said Brian Norris was an OG

Yes they REALLY did drift the civic. The guy's name was Dave as I remember, but I could be wrong. I hung out with him and Mark once, got to ride in the infamous blue coupe. That car is why I fell in love with 240's. Those guys are almost certainly the first US drifters to be publicized in any way, but I know there were others before that never got any publicity.

[IIIXziuR]

John Rambo was a drifter back in 1982.

[DMaxUSA]

I would say Slide Squad was the first team that got any sort of public media attention, but they definitely were not the first.

I remember there were a bunch of guys at the original TRD office in Torrance that would drift. This is back in 1993-1994.

Also, I've seen pictures of Ito-san from WELD drifting in the U.S. when he was a race mechanic in Nascar. Although he's from Japan, he drove with some local american guys.

[karl wasabi]

Slide Squad!!! Hell yeah.

I own Mark's old coupe. haha.

[ThatGuy]

http://www.hammerdownusa.com/1977Rice.jpg

Open wheel racers have been drifting since the 1940s or earlier.

[ZX88]

DAMN sick stretch~!~!

[qt_240]

http://www.hammerdownusa.com/1977rice.jpg

open wheel racers have been drifting since the 1940s or earlier.

... Amen .....

[Matej]

Haruguchi.

Pretty sure he was the first American drifter.

[BustedS13]

it was Jonny Wong. that's why people refer to drifting as getting "The Wong Way".

[ixfxi]

ernie







fixmer

[0100]

the best thing about dave's site was the:

you don't know shit about kid Icarus

[ZenkiKid]

My vote also goes to Ernie Fixmer.

I think this is the or one of the first major drift event(s) in the US: Drift session hawaii (ross petty was apart of these events)

oh yeah, this guy is pretty old school

www.nekopunch.com (http://www.nekopunch.com/)

[Brian]

the best thing about dave's site was the:

you don't know shit about kid Icarus

hahah aha

[chitownguy]

Dave sold me my S30.

[lflkajfj12123]

S L I D E SQUAD

luv u bros!

[Bubbles]

"Lisa Kubo".




Haven't heard that in a while.

[sw20>>s14]

i love random back from the deads...

all these names are bringing me back to the super street days...still have every single issue from late 97-02! lol

[MTalon]

Drift Girl? :duh::hide:

[ayuaddict]

benson.

I remember thinking he was the damn shit when i was a kid.

[lflkajfj12123]

DUDE. Benson still is the shit!

[Brian]

http://bhworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/dscn0846.jpg
So sick.

[lflkajfj12123]

#1　　　　　　　　　　

[Brian]

Whites do #1 sign
Asians do #2 sign

????

[Matej]

Who is that?

[Brian]

That is me on the left and Benson "sileightymania" Hsu on the right.

(Benson is the original drifter in the USA)

[lflkajfj12123]

But did he crash on Ueno's couch like Slide Squad?

He's still #1 though.

[Brian]

Slide Squad Burger Shoppe
Garage Straight Six

[lflkajfj12123]

Sparkle like a diamond.

[GWB654]

Don't know if any of you know of drift session but they were holding legal drifting events in hawaii before it took off in the continental USA. not saying they were the first but definently before the hype! here is the link to the cite and if you look deep this is where ross petty and forest wang got there start. web says first year was 2001.

Drift Session Homepage (http://www.driftsession.com/index2.htm)

[lflkajfj12123]

Yeahhhhh Slide Squad and Benson are before 2001.

[240XTC]

This is waaay too hard to answer....I guess it depends on the certain catagory.


Super Street was the fire starter for me though.....:bow:

[GWB654]

Yeahhhhh Slide Squad and Benson are before 2001.


2001 was when they got organized but all were drifting before that. like i said before didn't think they were the first but they have been around. did a quick search and it says first drifting event was in 1996 and the entrants consisted of Rhys Millen and Bryan Norris.

[PRADOgy]

My name is Ken Gushi and i live in San Gabrielu. I am 16 and don't have a license. My car cought on fire my PaPa Gushi forgot to put oio.


LOL

I have this vid of the 1st Official drift comp in like the parking lot of Irwindale Speedway. Benson won that. Alex Pfeifer came like in 2nd. Ken had an interview.

Think it was by Live Socket

[Brian]

I think that was the RS*R event.
They had Option Ikaten before that eveer happened.

[angelus erratus]

drifting was started by those crzay mofo in mulholland, i hear stories of a sting ray sliding ever corner... this was 50-70 era...

[Modrified]

it was mario and his gang in super mario kart. snes.

[ManoNegra]

I have this vid of the 1st Official drift comp in like the parking lot of Irwindale Speedway. Benson won that. Alex Pfeifer came like in 2nd. Ken had an interview.


Oh, that was a cool event
anyone could stand right by the wall and get bukkaked with tire bits
I shook this guy's hand and said hi 'cause I thought his car was cool
it was a hatch like mine but a look cooler, think his name was Koguchi or something...

I think that was the RS*R event.
They had Option Ikaten before that eveer happened.

I remember hearing about that
is it in any of the option vids? I'd love see it

[lflkajfj12123]

yeah its in like drift tengoku vol. 15

i'm uploading it soon

[ManoNegra]

sweet, you're my hero!