Bosozoku Style

Friday video: Aoshima Garuchan and Shakotan Boogie collection

banpei — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:26:08 +0000

Over the past years Aoshima has been releasing several Garuchan boxes containing 12 cars per box. Each box contains four models with three different paintschemes and/or modifications and so far six different boxes have been released! This guy has been collection them and shares them through Youtube: The cars displayed here are mainly from the [...]

Follow up on the Torakku Yaro Dekotora

banpei — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:40:08 +0000

I managed to track down a part from the second Torakku Yaro movie called Bakusō Ichibanboshi where the trucks clearly show the same Skyline C110 tail lights as the one I posted yesterday: At 3:12 you can see the truck with the flying fish on the outer right of the trio but you can see [...]

Part swaps: Kenmeri and the Dekotora?

banpei — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:12:37 +0000

Just take a good look at this Kenmeri Skyline C110: What does it have in common with this Dekotora from Torakku Yarō? It can be found at the rear of both of them: And a bit more zoomed in: I have no idea if the original truck from Torakku Yarō (Truck Guys) also had these [...]

Caught in the act: a Dutch kaido racer!

banpei — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:42:20 +0000

After almost two years I finally had the chance of meeting the owner of this Suzuki Alto SS40 in person! Apart from its styling it is already quite a rare one: it is one of the first SS40s in the Netherlands and therefore it also has the metal bumpers instead of the later plastic ones. [...]

Exhaust of the week: teaser!

banpei — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:26:48 +0000

A small teaser for what’s coming tomorrow:

Guess the kaido racer!

banpei — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:02:06 +0000

This morning I received some amazing news from J.P McCarty: Hot wheels will bring us a kaido racer die-cast! I still haven’t figured out what car this zokusha is based upon: best fit would be the Nissan Laurel C130, but doesn’t feel right looking at the shape of the door. So can anyone guess what [...]

Is this the end of bosozokustyle?

banpei — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:12:23 +0000

I took a sabbatical of a few weeks on this blog as I had to prepare to do a talk at a conference for work, so now that I performed the talk I still can’t put myself to post something here… So is this the end of Bosozoku Style? Well I don’t know honestly. Perhaps [...]

Meeting Monday

banpei — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:19:49 +0000

Just found another great video from the Awaji Island meeting: (video on the next page!) Direct link to video: 旧車　IKOU会淡路ミーティング7　ハイウェイオアシス　ジャパン

Guess the kaido racer

banpei — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:58:30 +0000

Anyone who can identify this nice creation? If you have watched some of the videos posted here in the past it would be pretty easy to identify. Also some shapes are still there and you can pretty easily make out what it used to be. And of course I’d like to hear the full Japanese [...]

Exhaust of the week: Olio Fiat

banpei — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:15:36 +0000

I have no clue what this car is. I did once but forgot to put it in my notes so I can’t use it for the Guess the Kaido Racer anymore… My best guess would be either a Soarer or a Leopard that is hiding behind that bukkake takeyari.