I know… Dekotora trucks are not zokushas but they do have a lot in common: wild styling, huge lips/bumpes/spoilers, tall gear shifters, same taste in music and of course deep dish wheels! Now in this video the dekotora truck even has stretched tires around those deep dishes:
Back in the late 70s and early 80s the Super Silhouette race cars featured big wide fenders, big wings to create more downforce and wild paintschemes to attract attention. Of course this influenced the people on the streets as well, applying the same wild modifications on their cars themselves.
More interesting is this video from 1984 on Tsukuba where another Grand Championship race is preceded by a stock car race: most cars look like the bosozoku styled cars of that era!
Especially the Cedric 430 (fighting the big Pontiac Firebird) and the Mazda Luce Legato are very typical examples here. Naturally they were modified in the same manner as the Super Silhouette to squeeze more grip out of that bulky stock car body!
No videos of the Nagoya Classic Car show this week and I think everybody did already see most of the pictures… So this week we have a group called Ultra Heaven which just started to compile all their meeting material and upload it to Youtube! Enjoy their first video:
Stay tuned for more of Ultra Heaven! 🙂
From time to time people post on youtube a video with their whole kaidou racer collection. Especially this video by Sabu3362 is a nice one:
I love the star shaped exhaust @2:22! 🙂
I love the way these Mark IIs do a merry-go-round in this video by gx61sedan:
Now that’s what I’d call a Mark-II-go-round! 😀
BTW: If you paid attention you would have noticed one of them actually is a GX61 Cresta, so I lied! 😉