A $13,000 Nissan Coupe That Became the Face of Drifting - The 240SX Story

The story of the Nissan Silvia and 240SX: the light rear-drive coupe that arrived in America with a tame engine, how mountain-road racers in Japan turned it into a sliding machine, the legendary driver who helped create drifting, the rise of competition, and why clean examples are now hard to find and expensive. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:02 The beginning 1:49 The 240SX in America 2:39 How drifting began 3:11 The Drift King 4:15 The American drift scene 5:07 The end of production 5:23 Drifting becomes a sport 6:13 Why they're so rare now 7:03 Buying a 240SX 8:03 The lesson 8:52 Recap Sources: Nissan Motor Corporation history of the Silvia and 180SX Nissan North America records of the 240SX model years 1989 to 1998 D1 Grand Prix and Formula Drift historical records Image credits (resized and cropped for video): 75 public-domain / CC0 images (no attribution required). --- Voiceover is produced with AI text-to-speech. Images are licensed (public domain or Creative Commons) and credited in each video description. Sources are listed above for every number in the video. #cars #automotive #MitchTannerCar