Aggressive Wheels & Stretched Tires: Post 'Em Up! [[Some NSFW]]
08-15-2010, 12:50 AM
A guy from a local forum lives in Japan and often posts pictures of the meets he attends here are a bunch from the one meet.
A few guys asked him about the lack of angled stickers in the rear window that is the fad over here. Also about what is considered "rice" over there.
PS anyone notice the guy wearing white crocks LOL crocks are cool in Japan...who new!!
Daikoku PA was closed so I stopped by another smaller PA (Tsuzuki) which is about 15 minutes from my house. Turns out there is a VIP car meet here every Saturday... I'll be checking these out weekly since it's so close by.
Apologies for the blurriness in some of the pictures as well as all of them being taken from ground level (I didn't bring my tripod). The first few are also grainy cause I was taking them while standing and at high ISO.
I thought my car was low and had too much camber and offset in the back but some of these guys' cars were just ridiculous.
P.S. The people that talk about "Hellaflush" and whatnot, don't know what the **** they are talking about until they see the stuff rolling around here.
(And before anybody asks, yes... this guy was driving around like this. The car does not have air-sus.)
<I believe this may be the same guy that I've seen before in another Youtube video but he changes the wheels)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r6lt...eature=related
Apologies for the blurriness in some of the pictures as well as all of them being taken from ground level (I didn't bring my tripod). The first few are also grainy cause I was taking them while standing and at high ISO.
I thought my car was low and had too much camber and offset in the back but some of these guys' cars were just ridiculous.
P.S. The people that talk about "Hellaflush" and whatnot, don't know what the **** they are talking about until they see the stuff rolling around here.
(And before anybody asks, yes... this guy was driving around like this. The car does not have air-sus.)
<I believe this may be the same guy that I've seen before in another Youtube video but he changes the wheels)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r6lt...eature=related
A few guys asked him about the lack of angled stickers in the rear window that is the fad over here. Also about what is considered "rice" over there.
PS anyone notice the guy wearing white crocks LOL crocks are cool in Japan...who new!!
Fugu, I didn't have my tripod so I didn't take pictures from up top but I'd say 90% of guys have some sort of affiliation stickers. It's not usually advertising what's in the car but their affiliation to some car club (written in Engrish, which provides me with many laughs).
You should see the tacky interiors that some of these guys have. Neons, blinking LEDs, furry things covering the entire dash, pull curtains on all windows...
As for comparing the level of cars over there... whether one would consider the car clean or not, the amount of money spent on the average car is much higher than what you would see in Edmonton. All of the parts used on vehicles are always name brand with a lot of professional custom work done. (Keep in mind, space and time are limited in Japan so this costs big bucks but people do it anyway because they don't have the provisions to do it themselves). Maybe one could say the Japanese take it too far in order to get attention. I can appreciate this more than somebody in a near-stock domestic with a fart cannon on some cheap knockoff wheels like Motegi or Sportmax. In Japan you will see more than your fair share of rice. While no doubt, it may be tacky or flamboyant it's undeniable a lot more money was spent (easily more than $50,000) than your average punk driving around the streets of Edmonton in his rust bucket, starving for attenition.
You should see the tacky interiors that some of these guys have. Neons, blinking LEDs, furry things covering the entire dash, pull curtains on all windows...
As for comparing the level of cars over there... whether one would consider the car clean or not, the amount of money spent on the average car is much higher than what you would see in Edmonton. All of the parts used on vehicles are always name brand with a lot of professional custom work done. (Keep in mind, space and time are limited in Japan so this costs big bucks but people do it anyway because they don't have the provisions to do it themselves). Maybe one could say the Japanese take it too far in order to get attention. I can appreciate this more than somebody in a near-stock domestic with a fart cannon on some cheap knockoff wheels like Motegi or Sportmax. In Japan you will see more than your fair share of rice. While no doubt, it may be tacky or flamboyant it's undeniable a lot more money was spent (easily more than $50,000) than your average punk driving around the streets of Edmonton in his rust bucket, starving for attenition.
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