Hero of the Day: Stars, Stripes, Rising Sun

This guy, who loves drifting and America. That’s a Nissan 240SX stripped down to bare frame, with a shortened custom wheelbase, integrated tubular roll cage and a turbo engine swap. The thing’s got 280 horsepower and weighs 1,400 pounds, a Bugatti Veyron-esque power-to-weight ratio. The driver fabricated it himself from spare parts, and now takes it out to amateur drifting events around the Midwest. Japanese metal, meet American ingenuity. Hero. 

This hero was submitted by David Mullis in St. Louis, Mo.

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