Papa Gushi's 2006 Drift Car Unveiled

[my 1 88 u]

why dont you purify yourself in the waters of lake minitonka?

I dont really think the car is ugly..purple is an interesting pick for color though..but that body kit is one that is pretty sought after among WRX people and the carbon fiber is a cool touch..maybe the tire tread graphics aren't that great but Im sure that will change sometime during the next season.

want some grapes? lol

[bk3896]

want some grapes? lol

Game...blouses.

[Silentghost]

I like the carbon touch, purple is fine, but im not liking that tread.

[Wayne]

cars sick just needs better rims, super low offsets or somethin

[Slapshotnerd]

The car was AMAZING in person! it is pushing well over 500HP, and a large majority of the work was done by the Kingpin brothers themselves, including the RHD conversion, the turbo upgrade, and the RWD conversion.

I spoke with them at the show, and they mentioned that they were going to retire the car as a show car, but wanted to find a way to continue to promote their shop, and this opportunity just kinda landed.

PS - kinda funny how the Gushi's are now both sporting tire tread graphics...

cars sick just needs better rims, super low offsets or somethin

it had advans before, these rims might have just been last minute for the show...

[hatebbobbarker]

hahah if he crashes it they are gonna cry.

[daytona350z]

humm, makes me wonder if they are going to bring the re 01 r's over here

[driftex]

which way did they do the RWD conversion? did they use a custom center diff and upgrade the rear axles? or a RWD transmission?

[s0nny80y]

I like how instead of an oversized spoiler, they have a trunk that dips low (is that how it is originally?)

[4doorpimpn]

that step child won best of show? what ever happend to people liking subtle smooth styling? its pug fugly! if it was all purple with a widebody, that would look nice. every car in magazines these days looks like the pixels are screwing up when im playn gt4.

[MonkeySlide]

that step child won best of show? what ever happend to people liking subtle smooth styling? its pug fugly! if it was all purple with a widebody, that would look nice. every car in magazines these days looks like the pixels are screwing up when im playn gt4.

How about you and your crew vs Gushi...and the revolution..

[my 1 88 u]

this is how a wrx should be styled

[nasty nate 7]

this whole idea looks like a total knock off of kumakubo's ride. man, they dont have any other choices in choosing a drift car? oh yea, assemble your crew.... ill be outside....(smoke appears)

[Slapshotnerd]

this whole idea looks like a total knock off of kumakubo's ride. man, they dont have any other choices in choosing a drift car? oh yea, assemble your crew.... ill be outside....(smoke appears)

is calvin wan's personal car a 'knock off' of the apex rx7 because it doens't have a kit and is white!?

that car has been around since before kumakubo built his WRX. i first saw it in april of '04 @ the Autofest event in Vegas, then I judged it at the HID event in July of '04. It was RHD AWD then, and they were prepping the motor swap...

when did you first hear about Kumakubo's car? because for me, I heard about it in November of last year, which makes it 7 months after I first saw this car.

[MonkeySlide]

I dont know about the rest of you but this thread is making me want to build a purple drift car and get a mural of prince airbrushed on the side.

People might have seen this car last year but I doubt at that time they were already planning to build it into a drift car. It was a show queen first.

They probably decided to turn it into a drift car sometime in the middle of last season.

Anyway people are getting to caught up in whats a knock off of what. Drifting isn't a car show. Dont get me wrong..I think drift cars should be cool looking enough to be drifted on saturday and entered into a car show on sunday..but the fact of the matter is that at its core, drifting is an performance sport ..its all about doing what works.

Besides its not like there are a lot of choices out there for drift cars...its got to the point where people are taking AWD and hacking them up to make them RWD ..to all of those who challenge creativity and originality that fact right there should say something to you. Anway there are some platforms that are out now that haven't even been fully utilized.

Im pretty sure someone could build a really good competitve RX-8, there are RX-8's out there but no one has really worked the bugs out of one enough to make it a first place potential car in D1 or Formula D.

The same could be said for the Z so far the only ones who have built good Z cars are Chris and ORC (Miki Ryuji) and neither one of them did it with the freakin VQ motor...which just means there is a whole other area on that car that hasn't been conquered yet.

Chris' new Z...looks like a mentally retarded transformer that forgot how to change back into a robot (no offense chris I love you! but Im just not a fan of that BRS kit) but you think he cares? no! hes like "hey..Im gonna put a F**kin' V8 in my Z and kick everyone's A$$ ..Im rick james!" and I say good for him!

If you can find a good platform that works..then go for it! who cares if someone else tried it already..unless they failed miserably then one shouldn't be too concerned with who did what...unless Ryan and Jim decide to make "show quality" part of the judging criteria for the 06 season