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International Business Times
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Qubad Wali and Susannah Walden

Drifting With Purpose: Sports Car Enthusiasts Rally In Afghanistan

A modified car shoots flames at a workshop in Kabul (Credit: AFP)

Mechanic Zabiullah Momand revs his sports car engine outside his garage in Afghanistan's capital Kabul before letting it settle back to a purr, the cherry red twin-turbo machine pristine in a dented Mercedes Benz skeleton.

"I own the only 2JZ engine in Afghanistan," he told AFP, standing next to the car he modified himself -- a Frankenstein of a gutted Mercedes body, fitted with a canary yellow roll cage and 420-horsepower engine plucked from a Toyota Supra.

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