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I went to Gatebil last year and it was the craziest loosest car event I had ever been too. The cars there were just insanely fast, I mean 1000hp Audis wheel spinning at over 200kph up the main straight was just mind blowing to watch.

This year we actually brought my clothing brand over to sell tee shirts. I am a graphic designer and for years I have been designing logos and designs for skateboard companies. I always wanted to start a brand for car guys like me, who love JDM and drift culture but want a designs that are not tacky or lame. So I started 101 Squadron

Last year I got to meet the owners of Gatebil and they asked to bring my brand over in 2014.

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I am lucky enough to have a fiancee from Norway so it made things a little easier but we still had no time at all to organise our display. We had not been in Norway for 24 hours before we drove from Tonsberg to Rudskogen racetrack, meet with the owner of Gatebil and were shown where we would have our stand. All we had was a box of shirts and stickers and grandmas old party tent and table!! Our setup looked very dodgy compared to Drift Monkeys or Speedhunters and more resembled something you would see on the streets of bali, but I think that was the charm of it. We had people from all over the world coming up and having a chat and were surprised that an Aussie traveled so far with this many tee shirts!!

People were loving the designs and we sold out of most of the tees in the first day!

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These 2 guys came and bought tees from me and later I saw them signing autographs. Turns out they are big Norwegian movie stars and are staring in the new Norwegian car movie "Burning".

Now for the cars...

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Team Drift Monkey bought out Formula D driver Ken Gushi and Noriyayo's Alexi Smith.

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2JZ's.... 2JZ's everywhere. Seriously if you are looking for one in Aus and cant find one its probably because they are all in Europe.

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As a massive JZX fan to see this on the first day made me cry...

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The crowd this year was massive, apparently over 60,000 people

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You want crazy Gatebil engine conversions? How about a V8 with a monster turbo stuck in a Mitsubishi Evo?

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The variety of cars at Gatebil is what makes it so amazing!

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Tried to find this WRX in the pits but could never see it... I doubt he was running the old EJ20 though...

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One of my fav cars was this Volvo 740 driven by Steffen Tveite. Basically its a Toyota Supra with a Volvo brick body but its different and looks so rad sideways!

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Some of the engines there were just amazing... Super big turbos seem to be the flavour in northern Europe.

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Team Yellows cars always look the goods and are always creating a ton of smoke. This s14.5 rocks an insane 1000HP 2J.

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This JZX90 was a true stand out for me and doing insane high speed lock to lock fishtails up the main straight all weekend.

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The other part of Gatebil I had never seen before was the aftertrack party, and I was not going to miss out this year. Lets just say it is insane and basically crazy music festival. The crowd was nuts and a totally different side to Norway I had ever seen. But it was all safe and great fun after a long hot day on the track.

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Another day and another crazy engine conversion. V8 twin turbo in a golf....

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Was so stoked to catch back up with Fredric Aasbo, the unofficial face of Gatebil. He actually bought 2 tees and a bunch of stickers from us!! The dude is so down to earth and super cool!!

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Another favourite is this RX7 powered by....... you guessed it 2JZ Powah!!!!

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Tor-Anders Ringnes in his new GT86 playing tandems with Fredrik Øksnevad...

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That exact moment you take a picture of a cars tire exploding...

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How to turn instantly your MX5 into an instant smoke machine....

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And the winner of the insane engine conversion goes to this little Toyota Starlet!!
3SGTE engine up front.....and one out the back!!

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Also got to chill with Bil Baldwin, the crazy bearded track official from Formula D.

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Unfortunately on the Sunday afternoon there was a very serious accident. It was so bad that they canceled the final of the powerslide competition. All the information can be found over the Gatebil website

It was a bad way to end what was a fantastic weekend. But still we had so much and it was a great way to welcome us back to Norway!! We will be at Gatebil 2015 and maybe... just maybe looking a little more professional without grandmas party tent!!

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Awesome read, thanks for sharing. If you don't mind, I'll just leave this here;

Ha! yeah cheers, I actually chatted to Alexi after that run and asked what was up as you could tell that the car was not making the same sort of power. Apparently something got into cylinder 6 so it was only running on 5 cylinders. Still not a bad effort though!!

Awesome video! Nice variety, wraps up the event well :D

Where'd you get that Doev track without the vocals?

Just google f**kwithmeyouknowigotit instrumental Most of them are available for free online.

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