I would slide that ass all day....nice civic!
Of course, if I were at Ebisu I'd ride anything on the track available, including a bicycle....Chiba-san it up!
I think your problem is that you're wayy to caught up in some fanciful "legit" world of drifting. Street drifting (And its drifters) were never about what was 'legit', or proper, or correct....exact opposite. The fact is, if the car can drift, its a legit drift car....
So some guy spends a fortune doing a FWD -> RWD conversion...ok, that's fine. He any good though? Got the skills to back up that fat wallet? Did he do it to prove a point, or because that's his style and his dream?
Hell the only reason I rag on Honda's is because they were all FWD (S2K obviously not included). If the old EG and EK hatch civics were RWD, the integgy was RWD, etc., they'd be some of my favorite cars.