which in my view was quite a poser first off the mona lisa was not a legit drift car and the paint job was taken right off of NUMBER_TOKENs chevy custom vans there was nothing jdm about that car at all except maybe the wheels there was nothing jdm about the paint job on mona lisa and that didn't sit well with me it was a stripped out interior it had nothing going for it i'm still amazed frankly that people elsewhere in the world aren't laughing at the graphics because they were in japan pro drifters in this country didn't take that movie or those cars seriously as well this car was more representative of the jdm drift missiles of that era but because it wasn't painted a bright color it would not end up having a starring role in the movie which is tragic because this was the best sNUMBER_TOKEN they've ever used in any of those movies so before you ask who would have won the race between sean and dom i'm going to go ahead and answer that right here with a NUMBER_TOKEN pound weight advantage and being almost three feet shorter the sNUMBER_TOKEN would have wiped the floor with dom maybe that's why they didn't show the whole race right or maybe not after all these movies are not documentaries which car wins any given race within these movies is already written into the script and the outcome is not based on reality physics or anything resembling facts it's always pure fiction sometimes the accuracy is coincidental but usually not the outcome is always predetermined so it's pointless to argue about it but if the specs weren't true in the movie the sNUMBER_TOKEN would have won so what happened after the movie the car went back to drifting and around NUMBER_TOKEN matt preedmore acquired the car and started using the car for its intended purpose again drifting and he did that for several years and over the next five or six years the car appeared at a wide range of drifting events in the united states eventually matt says it got a two day z-swap and matt drove the things off that thing for several seasons in that configuration but as matt tells it around NUMBER_TOKEN the economics of drifting stopped making sense for pro-am drivers like matt so he hung up his helmet and ended up selling the car just not long ago citing confusing judging small payouts poor tracks that were too small and sponsored dollars shifting to other forms of advertising it just didn't make sense for drivers like matt many others have said the same thing but yet drifting continues on it's but it gets difficult without sponsorship dollars so where is the car now today as in NUMBER_TOKEN company called buy now japan based out of japan has bought the car and it is currently in georgia being rebuilt with the intent of using the car in the formula drift series pro NUMBER_TOKEN class in NUMBER_TOKEN so it's still around now it probably won't look anything like it did in tokyo drift when we see it again however the car lives on and that and that makes me happy so and of course it would be nice to have the car restored to its movie condition someday but unlike some of the movie cars from the early movies this car was built for go and not for show so let it do its thing right that's gonna be it for this episode everybody thanks so much for watching don't forget to subscribe and i'll see you next time take
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