I'm Adam Buchanan, I drift.
My passion for driving began well before I could operate a car. My first car purchase was a 1985 Camaro. I paid $500 for it when I was 11 years old using money I had saved from my paper route. It ran and my dad drove it home with me riding shotgun. The car has a long, not-so-happy story, but the fond memories I do have of it somewhat foreshadow what my passion has grown into today (even though I was never able to drive that car).
I'm from northern Michigan. We get a lot of snow here. Yet, my second car (first one to drive on my own) was a RWD/V8 Ford Crown Victoria that I drove year round. It was more fun in the winter than practical, but is seem as though practicality normally takes a back seat for me.
People ask when I started drifting. I've been drifting on a track since July, 2018. The passion and practice of sliding a car, pulling the handbrake and making tire smoke goes all the way back to the beginning of my driving.
Why?
Drifting is the most fun thing you can do in a car. It's an opportunity to challenge myself in a way that isn't average. Drifting is a challenge of wits, mental endurance, problem solving and humility.
I grew up skateboarding, jumping bmx and snowboarding. Before a snowboard, I stood up on a sled. I'm pretty sure drifting was fate.
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