Hot rods are so popular in Japan that several companies there just specialized in shipping parts from Los Angeles to Japan. Or to put it another way, one of those importers justified his business saying “How can we compete when these people seem to love Hot Rods more than we do?”
Read MoreAs mentioned several times, The Nash is a weird dude. But it’s that weirdness that allows him to standout in a Japanese parking lot, and it’s his awesome strangeness that says just as much about Japanese Culture as it says about himself.
Read MoreTo say that Bubble Gun Treffen is large is understatement. While I thought the Low Latam Aero meet from earlier was big, BGT was massive. Hotels were sold out weeks in advance, and lines of rejected cars radiated outwards a half mile in every direction.
Read MoreIn my last article on Brazilian Rally, I focused on Mauricio Neves and his copilot Leandro Ferrarini so I could highlight the driver culture in rally. Unfortunately that meant that I couldn't include stories from the other drivers at the race. So when I met up with them again at Rally Morretes, I figured it would be a perfect chance to highlight their races.
Read MorePassion. It sounds cheesy, but the common theme in all of his builds is the engine work he does. The motor is the part of the car that fascinates him the most, so it made learning about how to replace parts, modify and upgrade the motor relatively easy. Since motors don’t exist in isolation, he began to learn about how to modify other parts of the car.
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