Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

So I was browsing around and found a VQ swap thread on Nico that was a bit of an object lesson on how not to modify an intake manifold.

http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=326877&page=3

When I get to page 3 halfway down a I do a double take at a post!



I see a picture and my first reaction is "I don't remember posting in this thread. I never post on Nico". Then I do a double take and see that it's my picture I've used for my sig in the past but it is being used by Sleeping240.

The image appears to have been found off of Photobucket and slightly resized/renamed.


Here is the image as I originally had hosted on my Photobucket account for use in my signature on Northwestnissans.com


And to give the photo full credit and justice here it is in all it's original glory from my favorite local photag DS who took my all time favorite shot of me in action:

Photobucket

Yep - It's me drifting around at an Evergreen Drift event back on 9/22/2007.

My initial reaction was to be ticked off because it looks as if some no talent forum noob is impersonating some one who can drift.

After thinking about it I realize that it isn't a big deal and and that I'm actually honored that some one thought that this image was cool enough to use.

So cheers Sleeping240 - I wish you the best of luck on your project and hope that you will get some of your own personal action shots that you'll be proud to replace my picture with.