You Betta Pick Yo Afro Daddy Cuz It’s Flat On One Side.

Once upon a time in a land SO far away the government used it to store garbage and rusty cars, there lived a gentle young lad with a massive afro. This man loved cars. He also loved women. But both loves were expensive to maintain.

“Whoa is me…” Fro lamented. “I could spend my money on women, but then that would cut into my car money. I could spend money on cars, but that would deplete my woman money. I could spend money on both, but that would cut into my sock and underpants funds and I cannot cut cost on socks and underpants so what do I do?”

After much deliberation on how to merge the two loves he realized that the simple solution was to do up a really cool car that smelled good on the inside and women would run their fingers through his amazing afro.

The auto he picked was a Nissan S14. He worked hard and saved up the bread he wasn’t spending on socks and afro picks and used it for to make glorious his humble chariot steed.
He slabbed on paint, tucked tire and wheel, searched for parts, and sent people money. In turn those people sent him parts that he assembled and applied to the S14.
He dropped it as if it was hot, from the window to the walls, he polished till his fingers hurt, then he polished some more, often times using his afro as a rag. Squeezing testosterone from his hair onto his car he shaped it by hand and hair into a eye catching wonder.

Actually Fro let me in on a little secret. He did not work very hard on this slab. He took on this project to prove a point. Money doesn’t buy style. It is easy to make a vehicle look good.

I agree.

Now Fro has a different problem. He has to divert more money to undershirts and such because women skeezors flock to him so aggressively that he often returns home with torn garments.

But I doubt he is complaining…

“Fix your face…and your car. Style matters, your opinion does not.”– Dustin Benedict -bka- Fro (what I imagine he would say in this context.)

Kid Dynomite

Another brother who has been doing it well for a while now is Simba Nyemba.

I had the opportunity to meet this man at East Coast Bash 2012. Sadly his purple people eater was not present as he had bashed it up doing street stuff a bit before the event. He did have a new coupe out to drive as well as those big wheels and great style. The man drives like a beast and is a gentleman and a scholar.

Old Hatch

Old Coupe

New Coupe

Chocolate Drop

I started drifting about 8 years ago (hard to believe) and in those eight years I have been on track with very few people of African descent aka black people. It always warms my heart to see anyone enter into an arena that is not the norm for their respective background. Whether it be a woman auto racing, a white sprinter, Jewish hot dog eating champeen, or a black man drifting.

I stumbled across Lex King who drives an FC RX7. I don’t know much about him, but his car looks respectable and he is competing in the TD ProAm.

He also has one of my favorite Bob Marley quotes pasted on his center console; “None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds”. It comes from the great acoustic classic Redemption Song.

FC’s do not look that great stock to be honest. Pairing that with the style direction competitive drifting has taken would usually spell disaster. But I am happy to see that this man is doing pretty good in the style department…which of course is the most important part of drifting.