A Onevia from the Plains

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Those of you who’ve been following our coverage from the recent Pro-Am Nationals at Irwindale Speedway will have noticed that Canadian Ian Fournier took the overall spoils at the wheel of his four door ER32 Skyline. Although this type of car is a fairly common site at drifting events in Japan, it’s rarely seen in North America. And this points to an element which differenciates the Canadian Japanese car scene from its American equivalent. Fresh-off-the-boat imported machines are quite plentiful in Canada, as any 15 year old Japanese car can be easily imported into the country.

So it wasn’t too much of a surprise when I spotted this clean RHD 1991 drift spec Onevia, at the Drift Mania West Event this past August in Victoria. For those of you who don’t know the term: Onevia is a mash-up of the words One-Eighty and Silvia. It refers to S13s which started life as Silvias but been converted to 180SX front ends. Continue reading at Speehunters

By Rod Chong