I did post up a couple of 1990s Hakone drift videos in the past, but these three must be the oldest so far!
They are dated May/June in 1990 and they feature several cars from that era including TE71s, KP62s, AE86s, B310s and an occasional S13: Continue reading
Tag: Mount Hakone
Over one year ago I posted a series of drift videos on the Hakone mountain pass, shot somewhere in 1995. In this video the same mountain pass, about 3 years earlier and this time only a zenki Corolla Levin AE86 is doing its drifts:
This guy is a very skilled drifter, he drifts both up and downhill. At the same time he manages to keep the car within the lines of the outer lanes through the whole corner!
Yesterday Hashiriya Exports posted a video on Mt Hakone and commented that Mount Hakone is well known as being Mount Akina in Initial D. I thought this statement was wrong and looked it up since I did find some footage of drifting on Mount Hakone some time ago and also remembered Mount Haruna being Mount Akina… I feel a bit like an otaku correcting someone living in Japan when I never visited Japan myself!
Well, apparently I was not really thinking well and I accidentally entered Mount Akine as search phrase on Google maps and I was amazed I actually got a result and even could get directions from Hakone to Mount Akina:
So which Initial D freak working at Google Maps did enter Mount Akina as synonym for Mount Haruna?? :D