A friend of The Brotherhood of Street Racers invited us to the set of, 'The Fast And The Furious 3, Tokyo Drift.' I went to the set in downtown Los Angeles, where they had turned Whilshire Blvd. and Hope Street into downtown Tokyo, and also to the set under the 105 frwy and Aviation (next to LAX airport), where they had created a chop shop junk yard set. Then me and Brother Rodney hooked up and were on our way to the set in Hawthorne, Ca. on 120th Street and Hawthorne Blvd., across the street from the Hawthorne Police Station. (I asked Turtle and the Alameda Kid if they wanted to go, but they said maybe another day, both had to work early in the morning.)

Just before we were heading out there, we stopped by Compton to check out a race between a '68 Camaro and an '84 Camaro. The '84 looked like it had broken it's motor squeezing a 300 shot, and lost. The '68 Camaro was going to race a bike next, but the cops came and we left to go to a Carl's Jr. There were only a handful of people there. Our friend on the set called and asked where we were, and we told him we were watching a race, and were heading out from Carl's Jr. He opened the invite to included the rest of the people at Carl's Jr., so me, Rodney and about a dozen or so street racers from Compton went to the set in Hawthorne. We got a small tour, and had to be Quiet while on the set. It was a closed set, so the Hawthorne Police came over and asked us to leave, but we informed him we were invited guests, and the Hawthorne Police said we could watch, but only from the far curb on the sidewalk, all the way on the other side of the set. Just then our friend of the Brotherhood stepped over and informed the Hawthorne Police to go back to the set and leave us be. Then a few members of the film crew came over to us and checked out the '68 Camaro on slicks, the crew asked a lot of questions about the Camaro, but when one question was asked , "What rear end is under the car?", the reply was, "It's stock," everyone laughed and someone commented, "once a street racer, always a street racer."

Can't really tell you what we saw on the set, but it included some bad ass wrong wheel drive imports and a Mustang drifting. Then they told us what was in one of the imports, a 500hp twin turbo motor. The Camaro guy said I got you covered, want to race? They said "race for pinks?" and the reply was "nobody races for pinks anymore, just cold hard cash." They laughed and said they believed him, and that it would not be much of a race, the Camaro would win. They asked how our efforts on Brotherhood Raceway (Terminal Island's dragstrip) were going. I told them well so far, but everyone is getting ancy to get it open, but it is all in the mayors hands right now.  I also made a comment that I wished they would included in the movie why people street race in the first place, nowhere to do it legitimately.

We all had a really good time, and we left around midnight, the crew went back to work, and the street racers went back to Carl's Jr to discuss how to get the motorcycle and Camaro's race off that night. When I left the set, I was informed that the crew had got a big kick out of the street racers, and I informed them that the street racers had got a big kick out of the set, and thanks for the invite.  

Nice story, I enjoyed it. But really another Fast and Furious? That movie ruined street racing! After that first one the cops got thick on us and way to many spectators started coming and abunch of kids with thier moms Accord or Camery. I remember all us racers were pissed when we found out about that movie coming out. Now it's a $500 fine just for watching and if you get caught racing 30-60 days in jail, $2000 fine and 2nd time all that doubles plus they keep your car for good. So I had to quit racing and am back to the lowriders. I hate those movies for those reason and bad acting.  

God not another one.. ya I agree with above.. they make cruzin hard for the real lowriders... I hate the sound of those trash cans welded to the pipes..  

yeah they sound like my lawn mower.  arent they already lawn mowers al u have to is put blades and a bag on it and u have a lawn mower with nice 20'' whells on it since thats how big they go on lawn mowers i mean rice rokcets i guess. it'll be known as the bling mower  

Yeah, the movie only tells a Hollywood version, but fails to tell the real story. It has made it very hard out here as well.

Here are some stats on people dying from a street racing, you will more likely get hit by a drunk driver and he face less penalities than a street racer-


From SDStreetRacing.com -- SDMS, Sunday, June 15, 06:46:54pm
All according to the NTSB as early as I could have found.

In 2002, 17,970 people were killed in crashes INVOLVING ALCHOHOL, representing 42 percent of the 42,850 people killed in all traffic crashes (up from the 41% killed in 2001), according to preliminary NHTSA data.(Pretty f-n-ing amazing. Think about that next time you see that idiot swerving around.)

2001 STREET RACING led to 135 of the 42,116 which is one-third of ONE PERCENT of all traffic accident for that year. 2001 had 17,448 drunk driving fatalities. For those of you who don't want to do math you are about 130 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE FROM A DRUNK DRIVER THEN AS A RESULT OF A RACING ACCIDENT.

Of course what these statistics don't show is WHO dies. Usually in racing it is the racers who pay the consequences. In drunk driving (as many people will know) the drunk usually goes home in cuffs with a few scratches while the other cars passengers families are notified by an officer in the middle of the night.


Sources: www.madd.org and www.NHRA.com  

ya they tend to not say that part.. I say its a life style and stupid movies like this make it hard for real ricer's.. Not APC crap. I like how they start putting thata logo on everything when a movie comes out... I also likee he fact that every one wants nitro and do not what it act does... Them pushing the button and all that noise and jerking is stupid... Along with all the neon kits and games they sale off...  

E, all I can say is Amen! Fundi I agree with you to, but I like the video games, Fast and Furious game though never played that one. APC had a 2F2F nitrous kit! how funny is that! Actually they had whole line of performance parts.  

Hey E, so its based in Tokyo. Is Paul Walker in it again? Do you know the basis of the movie, by chance?  

The games are fun...But lets get sum real car movies. I would like to see the real drifters and moonshiners.. Not rich kids and stickers...  

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Hey E, so its based in Tokyo. Is Paul Walker in it again? Do you know the basis of the movie, by chance?

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Most of the movie takes place in Tokyo. No one from the other FnF movies are in it. All new cast
FnF 3 Tokyo Drift pics

Here is a pic from Terminal Island, lowriders drag-

From  Webshots Brotherhood Raceway Park  

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YAAAAAA!!!!!!!

None of those buttplugs could act anyway.. I am glad they are using real drivers.. Lets see how corny the story line will be... ( My kids will make me go )