There is always something special about gas station pictures. Something about the combination of lighting and dope cars getting gassed. Found this picture on a blog and had to share it. My father owned one of these Infiniti’s a couple years. Looking at these I wish he wouldn’t kept it. So dope.
Again, by now you know that I have a firm belief that Japan simply does everything better. Here is another perfect example. I think they call these trial bikes. They are basically dirt bikes without a seat, and as you can see a seat would just hinder the performance of the rider. Kind of crazy. To make things interesting they throw an almost impossible trail in front of them and send them off. I really just think you should go ahead and watch the video. It’s simply amazing. So much skill.
Seriously, we haven’t had much of a winter so far. We are definitely not used to this warmer weather here in New York. But I do see around the world, there has been plenty of snow falling. Enough for some cool pictures. The picture below caught my eye because the snow is actually falling with a line-up of all white cars. Dope white cars actually. Obviously, only in Japan would there be a parking lot this dope. Guess you can say this picture is very “fitting”.
I think 007 is the first thing that comes to mind when most people see these old Lotus’. I personally love the them. There is just something about the sharp edged, yet boxy lines of them. I have a dream of buying one and throwing a LSx swap in it. I think it would be so dope. Some day. I’ve been seeing that they are pretty popular within the old school scene in Japan. Crazy.
I don’t have kids yet, but these cambered out vans continue to grow on me. I’d love to see more guys modding these like this here in the states. I still think the next movement here is gunna be the demon camber that you see all over Japan. Maybe we just need to grow bigger balls. Oh, and a bigger bank account for all the tires we’ll be buying. Ha!
It’s something that comes with every hobby, industry, and culture. There is always someone who is willing to push boundaries of what is normal. If it’s done right, it becomes the next “cool”. Now, of course I won’t get into the differences between classics and trends, but a change of pace is always good every now and then. Over in Japan there is a huge movement of oni-camber. And although I don’t think that trend is going anywhere soon, I do see that the Japanese are experimenting with new things. This is probably the first time I’ve seen them offsetting the wheels so much that the cambered wheels are poking beyond the fender. Usually the uber-wide wheels are cambered to a negative number incomprehensible and tucked drastically underneath the fender. But, this is different. Personally, I think it’s dope. Will we be seeing more of this? Who know, but I love the thought of boundaries being pushed and seeing the creativity of people from around the world.
I think the tag line for my blog should be “Japan does it better”. I just seem to bring it up every couple of posts. This post hits home because my father owned a Mazda5 and, I personally HATED the car. It just was that type of car that when you drove no one respects you on the road. But damn if I made it look like this one I would have LOVED driving it. This thing looks dope!
I think the E65 7-series was the car that grew on me the least on the BMW line-up. Or maybe it was that ever drug dealer in the Bronx owned one when they came out. But all jokes aside, I think it’s fair to say that the E65 was the least pretty 7 to date. Having said that you don’t really see to many of them modded “right”. I came across these two from Japan, and of course, they are done right. Dropped on a set of wheels that aren’t gaudy 22’s, for once. Props to the owners for taking the chance on a pretty ugly car. Japan does it right!
Spotted this video on Speedhunters and thought I should share it. It’s a very short video on some of the things that wen’t on during the Nismo Festival that goes on in Japan. I really don’t think there is anything better then vintage race cars. And you have a lot of them from Nissan.
Enjoy the sounds from the event.
Well I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I had Christmas celebration’s saturday through monday so I apologize for the lack of posts. I’ll hit you guys with a couple videos today and try and catch you up with what has surfaced over the weekend.
I’ll start with this video from Liberty Walk in Japan. I’m sure you’ve seen some of these modified Lambo’s, but it’s great when you hear from the guy who started it all. To say this guy is living the life, is a easy understatement. Did you hear some of the cars he owns? Insane! And on top of that he gets to modify exotic cars. Must be nice.
Another case of Japan doing it right.
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