She’ll be back in a few weeks.

After 3 months of neglect, the Corolla will finally have some work done to it. But not by me. LOL. She’ll be back in a few weeks. That’s all the info you get for now.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Team KY. Keepin it tight.

Keepin it tight with Team KY.

Popularity: 34% [?]

Drifting loses one of the greats.

RIP Atsushi Kuroi.

Popularity: 9% [?]

First event of 2010! Pants on the ground LOL

LMAO at the poster BH Designs came up with. Hilarious.
This will probably be my first event for the year. Can’t wait!!

Popularity: 9% [?]

Vinyl wrapped my Xbox wheel

I think its safe to say that Im getting addicted to vinyl wrapping stuff.

Popularity: 10% [?]

4 inches and counting

This is what our house looked like at 1am this morning. Being from Charleston, SC Ive never seen this much snow in my life. So far we have about 4 inches and are expected at least another 3 by the end of the weekend. Snowball war will ensue.

Popularity: 17% [?]

Your browser sucks. Kick it in the junk!

Your browser sucks. Kick it in the junk with a driftMechaniks Firefox Persona made by yours truly. Just upgrade to Firefox 3.6 to reep the radness.

Popularity: 52% [?]

Really late Christmas post

After several weeks, I finally got access to our websites again. We didn’t fix the router though. Instead we just bought a new one. LOL Whatever works right?

Time to catch up….

Popularity: 64% [?]

Gonna set my wireless router on fire.

Wireless router at home is blocking the IP my websites site on (this one included) so Im unable to visit, update, email, or access any of my sites. So until I can get the router issue fixed or buy a new one, site updates will be few and far between which is ashame, b/c I …

Popularity: 70% [?]

Chrome vinyl removal after 2 years.

Original placed on the Lexus while attending Formula D Atlanta, these Drift411 stickers have been on the car for two years now. Anyone who has …

Popularity: 88% [?]

New goal.

I could probably use the excuse of waiting till the first of the year for this goal, but why wait. The new goal is to start posting a new creative idea every weekday for a year. It can be a photograph, video, sketches, concept, design…. whatever. …

Popularity: 22% [?]

FOR SALE: JDM AE86 Kouki Bumpers brackets

Front and rear brackets for JDM AE86 Kouki; front and rear. $200 + shipping. You know where to find me.

Popularity: 23% [?]

25 automotive people worth following on Twitter

Posted 03 Sep 2008 in Featured, Misc

Most people in the automotive world haven’t heard of Twitter. But those who have discovered it realize just how useful it can be. If you are one of the unfortunate souls that hasn’t, then I suggest carrying your happy little ass over to Twitter.com and get a free account. And when you do, go “follow” these 24 25 automotive based people who are worth following. Who knows, you might learn something from them. But if nothing else, you’ll be able to stay up to date with the industry faster than ever before. Oh…. and download a free desktop client. It makes tweeting much easier; trust me.  Ok, onward to the cool car-tweeting people……..


David Thomas - auto journalist for Cars.com, blogger and advid poster on Twitter.
Currently has 148 followers.


Jalopnik – A very popular blog with a barrage of car culture articles ranging from news to wrecked exotics.
289 Followers


Erica Ortiz – Drag Racing Gal taking on the big boys at 200+mph
705 Followers


Open Road Blog – Toyota’s Official Tweets
135 followers


BMWblog – BMWBlog is the house for all the bimmer related news, stories and photos.
85 Followers


Car and Driver – Car and Driver is the worldwide leader in providing objective test results and expert vehicle reviews, and it’s here that you can get the inside scoop.
258 Followers


InsideLine – General auto news from the writers at Edmunds.com
108 Followers


Jill Anne – A girl who writes about cars for a living. She doesn’t have very many followers compaired to the others listed here, but Jill seems to post very content heavy material.
29 Followers


MissMotorMouth – Miss Motor Mouth is Michelle Naranjo likes cars & is editor at mota.net/blog
1,378 Followers


RideStory – Loves to talking to his followers about anything automotive; design, philosophy, etc.
127 followers


Car Connection – offers a complete editorial source for news and reviews, shopping guides, tips and more.
308 Followers


Griot’s Garage – premiere source for auto enthusiasts, car care perfectionists, and garage dwellers everywhere.
32 Followers


Top Gear – Tweets and news from those crazy Brits of Top Gear Mag
92 Followers


IndyCar Series – The latest from the IndyCar Series
73 Followers


F1 – This should need an explanation.
259 Followers


Tarokoki – Just a bottom dwealer at GT Channel ;)
35 Followers


GT Channel – Cars, cars, cars. GTChannel is all about professionally produced car videos on racing, drifting, testing, impressions and battles.
132 Followers


MotorTorque – An online automotive site based in the UK.
57 Followers


Bristol Motorspeedway – Live updates and a behind the scenes look into how the track is opereated from an employees perspective.  Amanda and I were lucky enough to meet Ben during our recent visit to Bristol. Although he was extremely busy, he took the time to hang out with us for a little while. So I tip my hat to him and the BMS crew.
181 Followers


Female Racing News – All the latest news regarding females in motorsports
80 Followers


TeslaMotors – The official Tesla Roadsters twitter
849 Followers


SPRskip – Has been traveling with NASCAR Teams for the last 19 years. But more importantly…. he loves to build Rat/Hot rods.
76 Followers


backedNthefence – A fan created account that gives live, up to the minutes updates during NASCAR races.
46 Followers


Nascar Insider – A 20 year old tire changer for a NASCAR team gives us an insider’s view point.
160 Followers


Michael Banovsky – Auto journalist / writer / photographer extraordinaire. He’s one of the few on this list that actually tweets what he’s driving. And he drives some pretty damn nice stuff and is a solid dude. Give him a look.
328 Followers

EDIT: Make that 25. Just added Michael Banovsky

Popularity: 7% [?]

Posted by Chris
http://www.chrisrhoad.com/bio/

2 Comments

  1. Nascar Racing (16 Feb 2009, 18:13)

    Nascar Racing…

    Most stock car races follow standard NASCAR qualifying to set their field of cars, but when you’re the richest prize and biggest fame race like the Daytona 500, you can do things your own way……

  2. Formula Drift drivers on Twitter #followfriday #formulad (05 Jun 2009, 12:35)

    [...] I write about Twitter last year, Im please to say that many more automotive people are jumping on board. And to my surprise, there [...]



Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.