I've loved drifting since the first time I saw it in person at the Falken Drift Showoff in Homestead-Miami Speedway back in 2004, and I bought my first AE86 very shortly after that, a 1986 Corolla SR5 hatch. In 2006, I bought my second AE86, a 1984 Corolla SR5 hatch converted to a GT-S, and I started street drifting about every weekend (naughty naughty!), because events were scarce down here in Miami at the time, and in 2007 I finally signed up for my first drift event, and it was amazing. I did 2 more events after that, and then my story went sour.
I moved to Tennessee and I wrecked my 86 street drifting in 2008.
I moved back to Florida, but Port Charlotte instead of Miami. I left the car in TN, and I tried getting back into drifting with a Fox Body Mustang GT (I grew up around these cars), but I was not financially able to get back into it. I moved back to Tennessee in 2010, and guess what? My uncle started getting the 86 bug himself. He had bought 3 of them while I was gone. I got a decent job, bought 2 of them, a 1985 GT-S coupe, and an SR5 coupe parts car that I never looked at. lol.So what about the car I wrecked and left in TN? Ended up being the parts car for my new GT-S coupe. I swapped over the suspension, header, exhaust, racing seat, Nardi steering wheel, and even the engine when the original one blew up. My old hatch was alive through the new coupe! I had that car for about 2 years, until I decided to do something very stupid... go street drifting. I wrecked it against the side of a guard rail. If I were patient enough, I would have still had that car, and been sliding today since I moved back to Miami recently.
Well, now I have this pretty stock GT-S couple that I will be transforming into a drift car, but NO MORE STREET SLIDING! I love 86s and I really don't feel like destroying another one by doing something stupid. lol.
My first 86 (circa 2005)
When I first bought my second one in 2006.
Drifting in 2007
Back in the game in 2010
My current stocker (soon to be not so stock)
BTW, I'm so sorry if you read all that. My bad.
