Yesterday we got an email from New Zealand photographer Roo Wills who wanted to share some photos of a drift day held over the weekend at Taupo Motorsport Park. NZ is quickly getting the reputation for having some of the world's best grassroots drift cars, so we couldn't resist the opportunity to post up some of Roo's shots for you guys to enjoy.
NZ's rep for badass drift cars is thanks in large part to the C's Garage brothers and their pair of S13's – both of which were taking part in this event.
And some AE86 love. Is that a Motor Fix windshield banner I spot?
For some reason you don't see a whole a lot of Soarer drift cars in this part of the world, but this JZZ30 helps to make up for it.
This no frills R32 Skyline has a certain charm to it.
An A31 Cefiro making some nice tire smoke…
Super clean S15. Resists urge to show envy that we never got these in the USA.
Another S13 done right.
FC and AE86 tandem action.
One more Cefiro, sporting quite the intercooler up front.
Really, you can never go wrong with Type X aero, cool wheels, and a drop.
And finally one more shot of Adam's 180, a nominee for the Speedhunters street drift car of the year award.
Thanks a lot to Roo for the photos. Be sure to check out the rest on his Flickr page.
-Mike Garrett
OFFICIAL SPEEDHUNTERS SUPPLIERS
Great day had by all. Great pics from Roowills, grassroots all the way!!
adam's 180 is effing HOT.........LoVe the look
i almost voted for it in the awards
Check the 'illest' sticker on that Type X!
nice piks, good 2 c sum NZ stuff gettn put up here, id like 2 c more of joels s13 frm c's garage that car is sick got my vote in street drift car of the yr
Props to Andrew.
Props to NZ Drifting.
Bring on more NZ grassroot events to Speedhunters.
MOTORFIX.JP IS THE SHEEEEEEEIZZZNIT!!!!!!!!
This is almost like MSC Challenge in Japan.
more pix of that silver car...
asses are nice but side shots are golden
Thanks must go to my good friend Joseph Curphey (http://www.jcurphey.wordpress.com) for teahing me what I know with my camera. And I still have alot to learn! Thanks for posting Mike.
Great pics, and a great day! Stoked to be on speedhunters!!
NZ´s drift scene grows daily for sure!
The best thing is that the cars look dope!
Nice...those 180s sort of remind me about Koguchi Power.
more pix of joel's ol' yeller!!!!
can't help but hate the rest of the world for getting the S15 Silvia while people like me can only sit and look at pictures or play games like Forza and GranTourismo to drive such an amazing car. Awesome cars though, especially the S15 and the 180SX's witht he Type X kits
Like a Boss.
Wicked! cool to see nz grass roots getting coverage.
oh, yes its a genuine motorFIX sticker!
THOSE 180'S ARE PERFECT.
Does anyone know what wing is on that yellow coupe on the first pic????????????????
Adam and Joel rule .... and Olly too! lol
Mad respect to these fellas!!!
180sx Type G.
I must agree with ragnaroc becuse the UK never gt them either even though there are more s15 's and strawberry faced 180sx in uk than you can count and not to mention our cars are RHD! But i think the NZ grasshoots scene needs more coverage in fact new zealand and australian grassroots motorsports need more coverage on speedhunters.Since i watch the same amount of australian motorsport in the UK as the ausssies and kiwis themselves. Hopefully rod can arrange for mike and dino to go to bathurst next year.
Good stuff Andrew! Really awesome pics!
you boys just wait
that JZZ30 is HOT! we need more JZZ drift cars!
Yo..... these cars are TIGHT!
heres a little vid of me, adam, mark and joel. (same order as the first pic on this page)
http://vimeo.com/8044222
These cars are awesome. The C's guys really know how to build them. Not really fond of the black one, the wheels look too big against the paint of that car. And the front bumper looks a bit funky...Other than that they rule!
I'm very surprised no one has linked this blog/photographer to this event, he has some AMAZING photo's in my opinion which better display the event and the cars. So sick!
http://86fighters.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/here-we-go-again-drift-motorsports-taupo/
http://86fighters.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/part-2-taupo-dmnz/
You have to check it out Speedhunters crew.
dope need more msc NZ asap! smallest country hottest cars on the planet
Thanks for the pix! great day had by all! The purple Ceffy is a GIRL showing how its done, and her man is the creator of the track days, Drew Donovan. Keep posted for his new S15 in the new year and keep up to date with our track days on http://www.driftmotorsportnz.com
Don't forget beeoneoneoh
http://beeoneoneoh.wordpress.com/
Nice pics man. But I think those aren't AE86s. they're Corolla Levins. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Type X S13s are drool.
you guys are seriously slacking if you dont post a picture of the yellow S13 coupe.
how can 18s look too big against black? That wheel size/paint combo shows up everywhere.
as for the bumper, some of the mounting brackets got lost so it sat like that 'til it got smashed into peices lol
wicked pix guys keep it up
i entered this drift event in my 4age 20v ae86 (candy red). that track is fukn awesome ta learn on it was my first track day.
That grey A31 is tearing shit up! what power plant is it running?
some tight looking cars at that day!
I own the black s13, i dont care if people dont like the look of my car. I build my cars to get a hiding and if a few bumpers/patches of paint get lost inbetween so be it.
Grey A31 is running a RB26 crazyhorse, and custom Gbox setup to handle the abuse.
thanks for that, car looks the part alright and lays down some smoke. what kind of power output?
Running around 490hp atw.
S15 = mouth watering! Last photo was excellent to boot!
i need this working again =[