As a Speedhunter it’s quite literally our job to go around and stare at mind blowing cars day after day, a very tough job no doubt. I won’t bore you with tales of becoming increasingly unsatisfied with cars, but I will say that when I visited TYPE ONE last month I was expecting to see [...]
When I think back to the week I spent in Japan last month it seems like another lifetime in the grand scheme of things, yet I still have a few fruits of my labor left to share. Today we’ll take a look at a very impromptu visit the workshop arm of the Honda-tuning gods Spoon, [...]
I’m still recovering from the wake of insanity that was my trip to Japan last week, but I figured this would be as good a time as any to quickly recap my recent adventures. The effort that Dino and I managed to pack into one week was incredible to say the least, and the result [...]
It was an easy pick to go with this crazy military-themed S14 zenki from Hayashi Auto Service to start off this spotlight-o-rama from Slammed Society. This wild ride has really made the rounds on the interweb and was one of the most popular cars at the event. Aside from the slammed stance the car sports [...]
Right it’s time to get cycling again now as I finish up my ride along Kanpachi-dori in Tokyo, checking out the cool shops, dealers and anything car related that I came across. I’m very happy to see how well the first part went down, it’s great that a lot of you guys out there want [...]
Ok this will probably have most of you guys scratching your heads, but yes that's a GT-R driving out of the Spoon Sport's Type-One workshop in Tokyo. It's actually my R34, and the reason I brought it over to Ichishima-san was to have it fitted with something that has intrigued me ever since I heard [...]
Life has pretty much returned to normality in Tokyo after the earthquake, but it's still hard to believe what the north of the country was put through on March 11th. This morning I received this series of pictures from Ichishima-san at Spoon Sports… …pictures that were sent to him from a race team up in [...]
Continuing on with our current Honda theme for this month I’d like to take a look at a car that has helped me further realize the importance of well-executed tuning. Like we saw with the Spoon NSX-R GT, Ichishima-san knows a thing or two about extracting the full potential of a vehicle, but after having [...]
Over the 23 years Spoon Sports has been in business it has firmly established itself as one of the biggest names in Honda circles. With the simple motto that every 1/1000 of a second counts they have created their own tuning philosophy and applied it successfully to both road and race cars. Ichishima-san has always [...]
We've all been there. Scouring through the classifieds, trying to find that perfect second hand car deal, a car that has everything, no damage, the right tuning parts, never been tracked and has painstakingly been maintained. Such cars aren't a myth, they actually do exist, and this S2000 modified and looked after by the guys [...]
This week I got an invitation to take a look at the Rising Sun Performance shop. They specialize in Hondas and had several vehicles in their shop. I was greeted by the DC5 Integra you see in the opening shot. For you US readers a familiar car but for us Europeans it's a bit more [...]
I stopped by the Type One workshop the other week to take a look at how work on the Spoon Thunderhill 25h race CRZ was proceeding. The car was almost done and is currently on a boat heading over to the US. Before being put through its paces at Thunderhill during the first weekend of [...]
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