HOMEDAZE WITH RODD BECKER

By Shane Prescod in car profiles November 5, 2014

Becker Racing is a family race team with many different faces, their youngest being Rodd Becker. This handsome fellow has been in the South Florida drift scene for years now, very popular for providing his true opinion on topics transpiring within the scene, suffice to say many of us look up to him and respect him for his honesty. As an avid driver, Rodd in his earlier days could be found with his then black and blue two-tone S13 KA24DE powered Onevia, participating at all of the local events and shredding with the best of them. Throughout the years he’s experienced the wonders of life, such as getting married and having have a beautiful baby girl named Yumi, all of which taking precedence in his life. Various responsibilities aside, he still took the time to build a proper drift car with all the fixings!

The rebuild of Rodd’s drift car is the ultimate father and son downhill soap box car dream. With the guidance of Rodd’s father at the helm of this project, only the best of the best would be used in the making of this car. Mr. Becker Sr. is one hands on and crafty fella, he himself did quite a bit of racing too, but more so on the drag racing side of things. Throughout this build, there are noticeable influences over Rodd, with the custom body paneling, making the body kit fit just right over the wheels, to the air ducts seen on the rear quarter windows to keep Rodd cool and his car as well. The paint was done by him too, that signature Becker Blue. The original Nissan power plant got booted out in favour of a high horse power plant, with an extra four cylinders they upgraded to a Chevy LS motor. It was Rodd’s preference to continue with a naturally aspirated platform instead of trying to learn the challenges of a boosted engine. With this father and son team, the car as we know it will be a monster!

At the end of the day this was really a moment for us to hang out. We talked about life, relationships and our dreams, the state of the South Florida drift scene being in shambles; we chatted about that for a while. I sat listening to him speak and felt like a young Luke Skywalker, receiving the jewels to the way of the force, and maybe one day help fix things down here. Over all it was a blast to just kick it, and the time came for me to say good night. I had hopes that I would catch him at another drift event some time soon.