Skyline meet at Umihotaru.

We rolled by Umihotaru a week ago and there was what appeared to be a Skyline meet of some sort going on.

Saw this guy on the way there. Snapped one photo and he was GONE. haha.



A couple random Alfas.



Crazy paint on this S14.



On to the photos of all the Skylines.











A couple older cars.







Some Porsches were also there.





and a fairlady.



A lot of the people asked not to have photos taken of their cars, so these are the only ones i could sneak ahaha.

VIP wagons on the way to Ebisu.

We passed up some VIP style wagons on the way to Drift Matsuri.

First time seeing such camber in person.



And a few odysseys.






Pretty cool to see them driving around.

Awesome CMs.

Helmet.

So i purchased this at Naps Yokohama before i decided to move to Japan, I figured i could use it at a few track events and Auto-Xs in the states. Maybe I'll be able to squeeze a few events in before i move. It's a cheaper Naps brand with a bubble visor i purchased separately.

Henry's car on Speedhunters.

Apparently Linhbergh has been ricer hunting once again.

Check it out here!

Some photos i loved from the article: (make them wallpapers please!)



I cannot get enough of Linhbergh's action shots!

and you know, i had to put this one up. =P


Congrats Henry!

Thanks Linhbergh!

Fireworks down the street.

Last night my mother and i heard fireworks outside, It sounded like a war-zone - so close. So we stepped outside to have a look, It was right down the street!

Don't ask.

But if you know, you're cool.

I'm putting this up here for the sole reason of immortalizing this fictional conversation between some dude named Yuta and some girl he will be hitting on when he moves to Japan.

yuta: "hey girl, wassuu~p!! ocha shinaa~i??"
girl: "uwaa~, kuruma kokkoiii~♥ !! eigo to nihongo mo hanaseru nooo~...yada~!! bango choooda~i!!"
yuta: "he he...ma~na...kochi kite bango ageru ze ba...by!!"
girl: "ufu...yada...yuta kocchi oide!"
yuta: "iiya iiya...kocchi kite, i wanna see you walk here baby.."
girl: "...nande kuruma kara denai no?"
yuta: "iikara iikara!!!...kocchi oide! don't question me woman!!"...

hahahahaha...and scene...hahaha!!

Juju should really write a book!

and not in invisible ink!

This post contains wayyyy too many inside jokes.

Ill conclude it by posting the most beautiful dude you will see in Japan.

Rat Sunrise.

So while we were driving around going to Up Garages last week we came across this used wheel store called Rat Sunrise. This place was nuts! they had like ten thousand wheels! Well ill let the photos do the talking.












I'm definitely gonna be checking this place periodically when i move out here!

A night out in Yokohama.

Today Brian and I walked for like six miles and took a gazillion trains to try to find him a suitable scooter, he brought me along so i could "translate" which really means i was chatting it up with the people working at the shops, not to mention Brian had no problem communicating with them himself. We then were picked up by Juju and switched over to LA's car and went out to look for some drifting. We the met up with their good friend Yubo (yes, The Yubo). Brian and I rode in LA's car while he did some drifting, Ran around from cops and hung out at combinis (with cops). I left my camera at home so all i have are these two photos i had to steal from Yubo's blog (sorry!).




I am seriously gonna look for any old job out here and move out here as soon as possible.

Summer Drift Matsuri at Ebisu.

We made our way to Summer Drift Matsuri at Ebisu last Sunday, getting there at around 6am.


the first track we went to was Minami, where we saw Rob being all crazy.

Then Saito Daigo and this other dude started going at it, doing ridiculous tandem runs.



Until the other dude lost a wheel coming off the jump and wrecked pretty hard!

At which point we decided to check out some of the other tracks, we went to the Nishi course first, which required going through this tiny tunnel, our van barely fit!

I went to sleep for a couple hours there and woke up to this odyssey next to me on Blitz 03s haha.

We then proceeded to go to drift course. Some of LA and Brian's friends were experiencing some technical difficulties in this MX83 (yes, its technically a cressida sold in japan as a mark II).

I ran into this group of very pretty cars there as well.

We then went to the higashi course and ran into Alexi and Rob!

Dude, Alexi you are really tall! and i look really tired.

Dude, Rob you are really buff!

Rob and Alexi then gave Brain and I rides, which was really cool, Rob's car feels way too solid! and watching Alexi drift from right behind him was awesome.

Brian getting out of Rob's car.

Alexi entering the first corner after getting up to ridiculous speeds on the straight.
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Rob swinging it on the straight.

spotted this trio of 86s at the pits.

We then made our way to the Kita course, one last shot of Rob's car.

On our way there so found this place where we had a beautiful view of Higashi, It would be amazing even without a racetrack there!

At the Kita course, this was the first car that caught my eye.

We then went over to the pit wall where this white R32 was getting stupid close to the wall, so Brian grabbed some empty bottles to put into the wall,

So this could happen~





This dude was NUTS!
we caught up to him afterwards and i got a photo of him and his car!

digging that audio setup.

He had an SR in there!

We had to get on our way home so i took one last photo.

I slept through most of our six our drive back to Yokohama, but i came across this car when we stopped at a parking area, recognize it?

Drift Matsuri was an awesome experience and i hope to attend one again soon!