Right now I'm sitting in Kumakubo's office, which is perched high above Ebisu's East Course, with a stunning view of the circuit's back side. However, right now I'm not too interested in taking in the view, as I'm soaking wet from shooting in the heavy rain that plagued today's D1 Street Legal event – my [...]
On our recent trips to the legendary Nurburgring, I was most fascinated by the culture surrounding the Nordschleife – the raw purity of the car culture there is cool! There are so many car enthusiasts out there DRIVING their cars and having fun. After all, isn't that the whole point of owning a car? Exactly. [...]
It's the end of another week as well as the end of another month, so that means it's time for some more desktop wallpapers. This time I went with a shot of the Rasty JZX100 Mark II from the MSC Honjo event as well as a photo from last weekend's Idlers Meeting at Tsukuba Circuit. [...]
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It's the end of another week as well as the end of another month, so that means it's time for some more desktop wallpapers. This time I went with a shot of the Rasty JZX100 Mark II from the MSC Honjo event as well as a photo from last weekend's Idlers Meeting at Tsukuba Circuit. [...]
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Mine's; A Japanese household name in tuning, made famous by numerous Hot Version and Best Motoring DVD's. We all remember the battle between the Amuse Supra and Mine's R34; the battle of the straight inline six. The mastermind behind Mine's is Michizo Niikura. He started his career at Bridgestone but turned his attention to [...]
If you are even somewhat familiar with the international drift scene, then you probably know about Mad Mike Whiddett from New Zealand and his infamous RX7. If you need a refresh, you can check out the feature I did on his car a while back. Those old specs on his car are now history though [...]
In the past few weeks, we’ve been in Japan, so the Speedhunters website has been going crazy with photos and stories from our trip. As you can imagine, I have a million more photos dealing with legendary Japanese drifters and street drifting style… but we just thought we’d break things up a bit and show [...]
Any fan of Japanese cars should be familiar with the Nissan Stagea. The first generation Stagea is known for being the closest you can get to having a Skyline GT-R station wagon and Autech even produced a limited edition RB26-powered Stagea known as the 260RS. In the early 2000's when the Skyline switched to the [...]
Earlier this month, I looked a little bit at the Japanese classic car scene and discussed some of the popular models and different styles of classic car restoration and modification in Japan. One thing that I didn’t really touch upon in that post was the “kyusha kai” culture that can be found all over Japan. [...]
As our Speedhunters "Japan month" begins to draw to a close, I just thought I'd mention one thing I absolutely love about Japan. Well, anyone who knows me will tell you that I love tons of different aspects about Japan, Japanese car culture, and Japanese life in general… but one of my favorite things is [...]
Every once in a while I receive chain emails from friends usually contain varying degrees of wisdom and/or touchy feelie New Age thinking. Many of these emails contain threats of impending doom unless I send them on to my entire contact base…. enlightenment based voluntary spam networks perhaps?… I'm the type of guy that is [...]
The end of the week is drawing closer, and I'll be going back up to the Fukushima area of Japan, so I can attend the D1 Grand Prix event at Ebisu Circuit. However, before I head back up to Ebisu, I thought I'd share some more photos from the MSC Event at Honjyo Circuit! The [...]
I noticed we didn't had a lot of Toyota Supra's on Speedhunters. It's not that we don't like the car, but its hard to find a really nice example. I think I have found one. The car has some nice features like the Top Secret carbon diffuser and the red color coded rims. Not sure [...]
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It's a beautiful sunny day in Tokyo right now – the rain has finally stopped (for a few hours, according to the weather report) but instead of going out to my favorite places in the city, I'm sitting in this dark cubicle in an internet cafe, because I know you all have been waiting to [...]
