I took these photos with my Canon SD800IS point n shoot camera when we were filming the Birth of Pro Street film for Spike TV at Formula D Seattle in 2007. This FC “truck” belongs to a guy named Earl, who I met on the practice day before Formula D. His FC stuck out so much from the lineup of normal drift cars! Anyway, I think anyone who builds a car this daring, this flashy, and this cool has got to be cool themselves. Earl is kinda out there, but that’s definitely what drifting style is about. The Pacific Northwest is definitely putting it down! I think that Seattle and Portland are some of the most “slept on” areas of the USA… there are a lot of super cool cars there, but people just don’t realize it. Check out the side exit exhaust, with the “pow!” style heat shield surrounding it! Cool!
Check out the red metallic paint job! By the way… that’s actually VINYL!
Nice and aggressive. “Hide your Daughters!” hahaha that’s dope. Earl has more aggressive wheels now, but I haven’t been up to Seattle since this event, so unfortunately, I don’t have brand new pics of the car that I’ve taken myself. Check out Ziptied.com for more pics! That should send you a nice spike of traffic and new membership requests, Ziptied…
Cool stickers on the back of the truck! The diamond plate truck bed is kind of reminiscent of Kumakubo’s K-Truck S13 (RIP K-Truck). Just look at how hard that aero kit sticks out! Haha! And the broken taillight, rear bumper stitched up with tons of zipties (many of which are uncut of course)… drift car style elements.
Lastly, I just want to give Earl props for his cool stickers! My favorites are the “Parts Produce Hakaioh” sticker from Dart Izumi Jr and the Battle Magazine sticker (definitely late 1990s Japanese drifting style right there). He also has a couple Dori Ten (Drift Tengoku Magazine) stickers from Tokyo Auto Salon 2005, Uras, and others! Either way, I think this FC looks really cool. Props to Earl for building a cool car.
Stay tuned to Speedhunters for more about this car in the future. I’ll be posting up a video…
-Antonio Alvendia
OFFICIAL SPEEDHUNTERS SUPPLIERS
Although i don't like the style, I gotta give it to that guy for the hard work he's put into that FC.
Haha, cool shots too!
drooling...
ghetto! I prefer the white over the metallic but props for doing it different
the northwest is an embrassment. people wonder why america never got the sr20 or gtr......
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Yea earl... way to represent... they tottaly should have used your newer pics tho!
Look this guy up on youtube, his videos are great. Great driving and great soundtracks.
Angry Earl's FC build thread. Quite an amazing job he did.
http://tinyurl.com/cbdxfh
Earl's car has always been so awesome!
It's evolved a bunch, and it's always looked really cool to me.
Props for getting a feature, duder.
+1 for the local cats
earl is way cooler then anybody thats what his car is so dope haha
Awesome 7
+1 to the owner.
i think ziptied has a few other cars completely vinyled instead of painted... who can beat a 50 dollar paint job eh? well, minus the hours of installation...
You may not know:
Earl is also a big fan of Battlestar galactica.
lolBSGlol
<3Speedhunters<3
More recent pics of the hhhwhip:
http://www.ziptied.com/forums/index.php?topic=10806.900
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Shits dope.....
Seen this car before somewhere, and got to say that it just looks awesome.....
I'm sick of all these "clean", "sleeper", "low key" aka LOW RENT drift cars, clean is another word for no imagination. i like my cars they way i like my strippers, nasty with a big fat ass! mad respect to angry earl for his sick ass fc.
Riskey Devils has his ride on their page(most recent!)
Freakin saaaweeettttt ride!
Thanks for showing the added angles they only had a few up so it was good to see some more detailed pics!
Man I love that "Tire Dogs" sticker.
Not my cup of tea at all.
I dig the mooneyes decal.
Awesome ride but Antonio Im shocked you didnt once who yuor friend was in this story.
HA HA!
JK
Tanner: yup, well EARL is my friend! Big ups to Earl and all his Comrades. Sick.
I love this car. A lot.
TOTAL GNAR.
Hey, I spy a |B| Unique sticker, that's cool.
NW Represent! Go earl go!