Owned my Kouki since 2005. Although it's had its changes, I, like most on this thread, am aiming to finish it as an OEM+ build. No widebody, no mad camber, just keeping it clean although it isn't at the moment. This car saw me through my crazy driving days of high school, broke young adulthood, and now I finally have a stable enjoy income to start making it nice again.
I dislike how kids can get their hands on these cars and just wreck them, but it'll happen with every cool car a teenager can pick up for $2k and drift the shit out of.
I will say the benefit of the drift craze is that it encourages kids to get out and work with their hands. I think you could argue that this "trend" or whatever has seen more people out workin on cars than ever before. Even if it's half-assed, you can only half-ass something so much before you learn how to do it properly, so I have to give some kind of credit to those out there trying to learn. Luckily, 240's are plentiful enough that it isn't really endangering anything at the moment if someone botches stuff on them.
With that being said, I see the future of 240's just as most classics have ended up. I think finding an unmolested clean car is going to be near impossible here in another decade or two.
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