Chairslayer! Adaptive Controls Put Handicapped Drivers behind the Wheel of a
  650HP Drift Racer
From: Product Design & Development - May / June 2017 - page 22 - 24
By: Megan Crouse

When Rob Parsons, co-founder of the Chairslayer Foundation, lost the use of
his legs in an auto accident, he wanted to make sure he could get back on the
track.

"When I was sitting in the hospital, I knew what I needed do to change my
life," says Parsons, a car enthusiast who could often be found road drifting
and riding BMX or motorcross bikes.

He would build a car with hand controls he could use on his own. "I had no
real issues with doubt the way so many other people did," he says. "When I
started building this car, I built it for myself, but I quickly knew that it
was going to be able to be used for a bigger purpose. That's when I started
the Chairslayer Foundation to help others like myself to see that they can
take on any other challenge they want, still."

He and Eliza Coleman founded the Chairslayer Foundation in 2011, determined
to allow other disabled people to either experience automotive thrills - like
drifting - for the first time or to continue competitive driving careers that
might have otherwise been cut short. In order to do that, Parsons first
needed to turn a vehicle designed to be operated with four limbs into one
that could perform all the precision moves and high speeds he needed with two
sticks.

Enter the 650-wheel horsepower drifter, built with a Nissan 180SX chassis, a
5.7L Chevy LS1 engine, and fabrication by Parsons himself using a Runnit CNC
machine. Parsons controls it with an electronic steering and clutch system
designed specifically to be operated with one hand - in his case, the right.

Read the entire article at:
http://digital.pddnet.com/productdesignanddevelopment/may_june_2017?et_cid=5998525&pg=22
https://www.pddnet.com/news/2017/07/chairslayers-adaptive-controls-put-handicapped-drivers-behind-wheel-650hp-drift-racer

Link:
The Chairslayer Foundation (with videos 10:16, 4:51)
http://www.chairslayer.org