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Vaughn Gittin Jr. 2012 livery.
Here are a few quick shots from the reveal party for Vaughn Gittin Jr’s 2012 Monster Energy Drink new livery. Look for more pics of the night to come soon.
Throwback Thursday – 2005 Clipping Point: Ken Gushi
Name: Kenshiro Gushi
Home: San Gabriel, CA
Team: Team Toyo/Ford Racing/Gushi Auto
Nationality: Japanese
Date Of Birth: September 19 1986
Marital Status: Single
Vehicle: 2005 Ford Mustang GT
Tell us about yourself…
I’m Ken Gushi, I’m 18, and a professional drifter for Toyo Tires, Ford, and Gushi Auto. I was born in Japan. I can’t remember whether English or Japanese was a first language, I suck at both. I use more English on a daily basis, but we only use Japanese in the house.
EverythingDrift.com: How did you get into drifting?
Ken Gushi: Before I started drifting, knew what it was. “thought it was just a couple kids in japan sliding their cars around” – at that time, I was 8 or 9ish – I was always into skylines, supras, wangan racing, 800 HP cars. Drifting was boring, sliding your car around a turn, anyone can do that.
Then when I was 12 or 13, saw initial D for the first time, also had seen a lot of real drifting on option video. My friend was like “you should watch this, it’s pretty cool.” He told me that it was about a corolla that beats everyone.There’s a black GTR in ID, and right when I started watching Initial D, we saw the corolla beat the skyline, and we were thinking “WHAT? That’s not real. There’s no corolla that can beat a skyline.” So that’s when I started to realize what drifting was, maybe it wasn’t as easy as I thought. I got started at this dry lake. My friend took us to this one dry lake in El Mirage, it’s about halfway to Vegas (from LA) near Barstow. He rode motorcycles, so he knew about a lot of offroad trails. We took my dad’s 86 Corolla out there, the same corolla that was in the anime series, and he was showing me how to drift around the bushes. I didn’t know he knew how to drift, but apparently he knew how to drift in Japan right before we moved out here. So he taught me how to do basic car control, sliding around the bush. We setup a couple of cones and made a little track, to see who could drift around it the best. A couple of his employees started getting into it, so they all bought employees. At one point there’s a picture of my dad’s shop that’s all corollas. Our customers, all the employees, there wasn’t a single car in the shop that wasn’t a corolla.
VAUGHN GITTIN JR. TO STAR IN FUEL TV’S OCTANE ACADEMY SERIES
DEARBORN, Mich., Sept. 21, 2011 — Ford and FUEL TV announce the collaboration to launch the channel’s first-ever motorsports television series with Octane Academy – a 13-episode original television series bringing the adrenaline-pumping entertainment of the camps to the living rooms of millions of fans in 2012.
Ford’s Octane Academy has generated record-breaking interest from fans, becoming the most applied-to Ford program to date with more than 6,000 applications – surpassing the popular Fiesta Movement program.
Bosch Prize-Pack Giveaway & The Bosch Iridium Edition RTR Mustang Giveaway Info!
Bosch is giving away a Mustang! Not just any mustang though. They are giving away a custom RTR Ford Mustang that was designed by the man, the legend himself! Mr. Vaughn Gittin Jr (See The Build Above)! To help celebrate this giveaway, Bosch has provided us with a small giveaway package for you guys to enjoy and help promote their drop dead sexy RTR, that will be handed to one lucky Winner at the 2011 SEMA show in Las Vegas! For the details and to enter the giveaway. Head on over to here as the giveaway is going on at Bosch’s Facebook Fan Page.
Included in this great prize-pack as provided by Bosch for us to give to you is a Bosch car battery-charger ($70 value), a Bosch spark plug gapping tool, and a set of the New Bosch Iridium Spark Plugs. What do you gotta do for this giveaway? Simple! Just tell us what you would do with the car if you won it. Take it to learn to Drift? Make It a Show Car? Drag It? Maybe go out and get yourself a pretty lady in your new fancy ride? Tell us and we’ll decide one lucky winner at random! Oh yeah! Make sure to also get in on the car! Otherwise why even answer and join this giveaway. Giveaway ends October 5th, 2011(Prize-Pack is open only to residents of the forty-eight (48) contiguous United States or the District of Columbia (“U.S.”))
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