I was given a free Canon 20D recently. I've taken it out to play from time to time, and for some reason, there is something about the look from it's 13 year old sensor, that I really like.
Last night at the 「Yuki's Night」night-meet, at Takasaka Service Area on the Kan-Etsu expressway (In Saitama, just North of Tokyo), I got an Idea of how the mods I planned to do to my new S14 would eventually look.
The GT-R R33 wheels, The lowered stance, The slightly augmented stock aero. It was all there... And it looked even better than I imagined it would. The trouble is, that now I've seen it, I know it's been done already, so I have to think of a way to set mine apart when the time comes.
Thankfully, my woefully inadequate salary means that it's not something I need to worry about anytime in the near future.
But as someone on his 3rd S14 which was bought because it was cheap, more than anything else, my faith in the S14's looks and my urge to build mine has been renewed.
Now to find a way get people to pay me appropriately for my work, so I can make mine this cool.
1%erss are doing it wrong. They all buy Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bugattis to show off in the hopes of attracting pussy, but none of those fancy Italian super-cars has ever pulled in the pussy as hard as this JDM beast.
With my tax return, I have purchased my third Nissan Silvia. Yet another white S14 Kouki, but this one is a Q's Automatic, not a K's Manual. It's almost certainly going to become my daily driver. The black beast will be relegated to track duty only (as soon as I can actually afford to track it again).
"But wait, you can't even afford parking!?" is what you're going to say, but in a month, things will be a bit different. Soon, I'll be back in my natural habitat, behind the wheel, once more!
I like seeing rough rides on the sterile streets of Tokyo, because, more often than not, they are driven by those bent nails that refuse to be hammered down by Japanese mainstream society. One day, very soon, I will, once again, rumble down the boring boulevards in my S14, a blight on my surroundings, a stiff middle finger to convention, free from the impositions of the herds of sheeple on their cattle-cart trains.
Everyone sees Japan as a destination in which to visit more destinations.
Between from 2008 to 2013, I lived in Gunma Prefecture, I drove a Nissan Silvia S14, and found that the best parts of the prefecture, and in fact, the country, are more often than not, the places that are a bit of a drive past the typical destinations, and the best experiences you can have, are the ones that you share with the amazing people you meet on the long, winding road.
To cap off 2015, I rented a Toyota 86, called on some old friends, made some new ones, and went for a drive through nostalgia.
0:02 Rings Autoshop, Owned by Yoshitatsu Kaneda (0:08), Pro drifter and head of Team YRC (Also my closest friend in Japan)
0:35 Mt. Akagi (Shrine and Lake)
1:06 Shibukawa City (My hometown) Many of my earlier vids were shot here, check them out to see more.
1:15 Rokumonsen -essence- My favourite ramen. The Master's mom is essentially my Japanese mother.
1:43 Mt. Haruna
1:49 Mt.Haruna Melody Road. drive at a steady speed and lines in the road play notes as your tires roll over them. Gunma has a bunch of these melody roads on mountain passes throughout the prefecture.
2:11 hidden lookout on Mt. Haruna no locations to this, I take you there or you find it on your own ;)
2:22 Allen Bo, The man behind the Drift Hunter doccie-in-progress.
2:47 Kusatsu Onsen. It's rated the best hot-spring in Japan, and I do quite like it, but the water is too hot and it's always full of tourists, It's a good place to stop and take a break though.
3:36 Tonya, My favorit Tonkatsu place. Prices are average but value is phenomenal. Tastes bloody good too.
3:38 Shiriyaki Onsen. A few kilometers away from Kusatsu in the middle of nowhere (Kunimura) is a heated river. Yes. The river itself is a natural hot spring. No entrance fees, No time limits, no restrictions and on clear winter nights, an infinite ceiling of stars.
3:49 Convenience store munchies aka a drivers' lifeblood.
4:07 Takayama
4:11 The Nihon Romantic Highway. 350 twisting kilometres of mountain roads from Tochigi, through Gunma and into Nagano. An epic drive, with almost no public transport access.
4:20 Shout out to MannyMarx, The man who made the music for this vid (and many of my other ones too). Producing Frank Corva's (4:26) new solo album.
One of the most beautiful machines ever made. While I have a bit of a soft spot for the R-32, the only GT-R I really want is the original hakosuka. Sighting mint ones like this in the wild is always a treat.
2014 Tokyo Auto Salon For when your car needs a facial and a manicure...Okay. Maybe not.
Held January 10-12 at Chiba City’s Makuhari Messe convention center, this year’s event drew a staggering 296,714 visitors! The first event, held back in 1983 by Option Tuning Magazine, was an effort to promote car customisation and tuning culture.
The event has steadily grown over the years, and 2014 was billed as the largest custom car show in the world....
