Here is a compilation of "You know you are a drifter when..." i made from drifting.com
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- You listen to the Initial D theme song while driving.
- You copy your favorite drifters car's on Gran Tourismo.
- Every corner you drive around, you acess how hars it would be to drift.
-You make sure that you mention that you have a LSD before nameing any other modification to your car.
- Have an est. of 1,000 dollar's or more in body damage from praticeing.
- You analyze every rwd car on the street, estimating what modifications it would need to be a good drift car.
- You make hand motions of handbrake and fient drifts when just walking around.
- You put notes on every S13 and AE86 you see, asking to buy thier car, whether its for sale or not.
- When your best friends are Zip Ties and electrical tape.
- Your "stereo" is rolling your windows down and listening to your car on the road.
- When body damage on your car are "battle scars".
- The words canyon and touge make ur feet twitch.
- Everytime u take passengers u recalculate the weight balance in ur car.
- You check ur tire wear after every time u park ur car.
- You know your drifter when your sitting at piano at friends house and practice the downshift on the 3 petals.
- All your front sheet metal has been unbolted and is now held on with zip ties.
- You prefer to have the rims on your car mis-matched.
- Your "custom" paint job comes from a can.
- Crashing is no longer traumatic.
- Ask which button is the e-brake before playing any racing game.
- Spend your rainy afternoons in empty parking lots.
- When you have more than 4 sets of rear rims.
- When people ask you why your colagne smells like tires.
- When you point out all your skidmarks to your friends when driving around town.
- When you drift the shopping cart at the store around every turn.
- You love when 15" all-season tires are on sale.
- You are on a first name basis with the cop who patrols your fav. drift spot.
- Your excuse for the above mentioned is that your "practicing evaseive manuvers" is better to do in industrial parks/parking lots rather then on busy streets.
- When all of your friends drive FR cars w/ excessive neg. front camber and bald rear tires.
- Your mum wonders where the hell you go at night and come home sober.
- You havent bought new tires, ever.
- Drum brakes in the rear is actualy a good thing.
- Rain is your tyre saving friend.
- Your Girlfriend asks if you love your car more than her.
- Your girlfriend dumps you when you answer.
- You think Zip ties are strong enough to hold your exhaust on till you get home.
- You've owned the same 240 for over 3 years, and have never put a set of "new" tires on it.
- Your car is now 3 different colors of black (not counting Carbon Fiber.
- When you think of how much money to save to go to Japan and buy kei office suspension and bride seats.
-When everyone else your age was trying to find porn on the net you were trying to find the right coilovers.
- When people who ride with you ALWAYS buckle up.
- When you go into a curve setting up for a drift even though grandma's with you.
- When someone offers what to name their baby girl and you say "Silvia".
- When people debate about pros and cons of the government. and you say "WELL I LIKE TURBOS MORE THAN N/A because..."
- You clean your side windows more than your windshield.
- You see shrek two and when the donkey in horseform slides in the castle you scream "DORI DORI!"
- You drift in every video game you play, even simpsons hit and run...
- You parents yell at you for getting a ticket for drifting in a parking lot but the best excuse you can come up with is that "its safer then drifting on a touge run".
- Your parents know what a touge is.
