Karanveer Singh Poonia it’s actually the same way in America. In American gang culture you’re supposed to acknowledge that the “OG’s” or “original gangsters” or “old heads” live a life of kindness and are very polite in public.
if you had your fair share of crazy things as you get older and don't have the same rush of hormones you achieve inner piece the japanese are often associated with exists in the people that didn't know how to be the peace but became the peace
Everyone grows up... No more pink hair and crazy clothes to impress others.. Plus racing is fucking expensive! Your priorities shift and you think “man, do I get a new MacBook Pro and take a 2 week trip to Tahiti with my wife, or do I get another Nismo triple disc Kevlar/carbon clutch because I’m launching so hard they only last 6 months?” If you have the money, serious sports passion (like SCCA) or super talent you’ll see middle aged guys still racing, otherwise it’s for the young who don’t mind blowing a months salary for a “track day” or the retired, because what the hell else are they gonna do with their money?
Do you know that you had computers in the 90's right? No youtube, true, but there was dialup. I would very much prefer japan car scene from the 90's and computer scene from the 90's that the cancer that is internet today. Cheers!
The 90's were great, Twin towers in new york Yellow checker cabs No fucking peaples making selfies on a stupid thing and no phone at all, touge race and much more. I WANT TO LIVE IN THE MID 80'S 90'S
Their Silvas back then was on par with our ford focus when they came out. Keep in mind those cars are domestic for them, where our domestic is their import. It's like how Harley Davidsons are really popular there. Even though those bikes are still expensive here too lol.
Here in indonesia we tought $150 wuz one month salary but still lives and do extreme stuff like Dragrace on really busy street only using flipflops and no helmet.. :D no wonder cars are pricy here.. They make 2fast2die bootleg drift pancoran edititon.. If sedan cars was affordable to my youth gen.. :D but if u into bikes indonesian has anykind of racer including nothing u can think of came up on asphalt+62:streetrules :v
The culture is fading away because some idiots are having the idea of "CVT's" and "Self Driving cars", ahem let me use the more *accurate* term "Shitboxes"
@@SL_RivviN Car culture is fading in the states cause morons in trucks and shitty cars close streets and do burnouts, cops bunched those morons with car enthusiasts even though they are not part of us, and now WE are paying the price for it. I live in California and i had to garage my STI for over a year because i would pulled over DAILY for having a "sports race car". I got a $1300 ticket for "modified car" when it was actually stock. All the cops tried to get me for that but i just showed them i already had a ticket and court date for it and theyd let me go. Fucking idiots in the 17-21 'first car' age group fucked it up for everyone out here.
@@SL_RivviN So everyday cars are killing car culture? I guess the wife and I will daily our RCF and Cobra and sell the "shitbox" dailys, if that makes you happy.
Dude I'm not sure what you're on but a Skyline not to mention GT-R is not at all like having a Ford or Chevrolet in the US. Even in Japan it's not like you get to see them everywhere.
Something about the nostalgia of this broke my heart. Imports, drifting, street racing; it just rips me from my seat at my desk job and throws me back to my early 20's. All we did back then was breathe cars, girls, fun, and night time.
Well, lucky you. Some of us born in 2000 would give anything to live those days, yet we are hopeless. Man, those were the greatest times :^ Have a nice day
I know right?? Gone are the days of being halfway down the quarter and you engine mount falls and the motor falls out of your hot hatch!! lol Good times, good times!
The old days in Ireland where like that too, you could get a really tidy jdm 200 sx for like £2000 and if you wanted more a turbo supra would be about £5000
Heh, a lot of these JDM cars everyone wants now were considered 'girl cars' over here, actually. Rear-drive Corollas and our less-cool-engined S-chassis were pretty cheap especially used, as were most cars on the American muscle platforms except the most desired performance versions, like you could have 60's Mustangs for days, but a Shelby or Boss was not so cheap. Frankly, back in the day I had *donor cars* that were a lot nicer than you'd get for a few grand of gutted project car today. I dunno how many of those Corollas my friends and I changed clutches on, though. (Regular people tended to hang onto those *until* a clutch started slipping, then we'd get hold of em. :) )
He meant that they want to keep the cars as pure as they were in the 90s when they raced, that's why on the part when the dude shows the polaroids, the car looks basically the same as 20 years ago.
Just the spoiler to create some downforce to keep it stabil at high speed and the money mostly went under the hood. Best of all, NO CAMBERINGS like those seen on YT these days.
* guy talks about how a dude would show up late in a white fc to drift * * two minutes later shows his old fc, is white with some slapdash camo on top * "its drift spec" 🤔🤔
I just don't feel like female car enthusiasts are serious. All I see is women posing in front of their cars or sit inside, having an overdramatic look for the camera. The difference is, that men don't care about themselves, it's all about the car. A clean shot of the car sitting in the parking lot and building it for their own desire, rather than trying to show off and flexing when they replaced their cars' air filter. There are so many bad examples, that it's hard for me to take women seriously in this community.
Me too. Id say this sadness is related to how a decline of a culture is analogous of a decline of something, a drive, a dream, a goal etc. in a person. i remember when i was young, racers were living in a sort of fake but very real world where they were making history and a name for themselves. I looked up to a lot of people, and when they fell off the scene, its like i just didnt care anymore as much. You just become "normal" (not a famed racer) in a way when a world (street racing) you know disappears: the glory days are gone.
@@janelane9281 u know you got tracks for all that u mentioned? Street racing is the thrill of making something dangerous, illegal and basically stupid... this is street culture and it is being buried everywhere you look. Hip hop, graffiti, street racing, break dance jams, drifting, motorcycle stunt, rallies and clubs ... everywhere. Majority of people want this ludicrous transparency in the name of "feeling safe" which is actually total BS and mass media propaganda. Unfortunately this is scenario Orwell predicted and everything shows it will get even more accepted, widely applied and then pathological.
@@steve.r33 what? its pretty much retail there, not like at indonesia where its price is like a porche, and why im saying its cheap is because people in japan get like $2500 for part time jobs only (students)
Kings Must Rise no way bro i love your vids i came to stance wars in seattle because i wanted to meet you but i was to nervous but i love your 86 bro keep up the great work.
The FC's we're so good back in the day, but i'd rather have a supra. Supra's boost makes me wanna go drift. But sadly, we ain't in the 90's aanymore. Also i like the daily
The FC is pretty cheap, I'm not sure why it's your dream car and not your actual car. Going on Craigslist right now, I just found for 1500. Sure, it's in pretty poor condition, but it runs. Found another one in much better condition for 4k. I think you get the point. Personally, I'm in love with FD, which typically costs more than triple what the FC does, but you should go and make your dream a reality
Meerkat More its still a dream car for some of us whos not living in the US. ie, fc with the condition you said cost as low as 25k$ here. We got one FD in govt auction taken from a corruption spoil last year. No paint, just body and engine stripped no interior, open price @17k$. So yeah, its a dream car.. esspecially an FD. Oww btw a relative of mine got him self (lucky overkill) an R32 with paper, normal condition and we all shocked on how cheap he got it. With he changed it to single turbo, he spent arround 55k$ total. And that is impossibly cheap..
I live in a small mountain town in northern california. There's actually a cluster of small towns all around me and the mountain roads are taken care of. The patrolling police force was recently reduced to favor responding police and Im thinking...you know what? Its time to get people together under a banner, or a set of stickers, and take to the mountains at night.
OsightblinderO You better man. Having a surrounding like that calls for some fun. Think of all the places Where stuff like this isnt possible. You owe it to yourself ;)
Now this is what I really love seeing, I love seeing and hearing stories of old school racers. It would be really sick if you could get your hands on those home movies of them back then racing on the roads. The few that I come across on YT either disappear or I can't find again seeing as they have Japanese titles.
I visited Japan for 3 weeks and it’s the moooooost amazing place in the World. The History, the language, the fashion, the people and of course the Car culture. Amazing!!!
@@CartierCarewCC I don't recommend u travelling this year (unless things get better), But honestly, me too, I was planing into going there on May, but bc of the Virus had to cancel it, I'm so sad
They're so humble man. I really appreciate this side of the car culture, specifically with my fav JDM cars. I miss the 90s car scene. Shuto Expressway battles, drift and touge. Even though I can admire stanced cars, nowadays it's just for clout and 0% skill + huge bodykits, just to hardpark. Everyone has their own style, and I am by no means trying to degrade their preferences, but damn do I miss seeing people actually race(and respectfully too, not with these huge testosterone levels fo who has the most HP). Great episode
Kelly Josephs agree, sure they have like around 400 to 480, but they use all of the potential and squeeze it all out, not like today when we have almost 1000 and yet not even a half been used
you're just not in the scene right now man, people still race for sure. I drive up in the hills a lot and have had people race me downhill. I've also raced people on the freeway at night and of course the usual stoplight drag races.
I should have been more specific, I miss seeing street racing teams who did it for respect and not money/fame. But yeah you're right man, it's just not as intense as it was in the 80s-90s, to the early 2000s.
I met several girl racers of the “Okinawa Drift Team” (at least that’s what they called themselves) while practicing touge style in the hills of Okinawa in 2010/11. Had great times driving and hanging out with them.
no mako isn't cuter my lady . shes a cartoon,you are the real thing. much love to all the Japanese drift and street racers . i love the culture beyond measure.
Takafumi Arisawa definitely agree with you! Their losing that essence we love so much about the Japanese tuning car culture!!! That truly Japanese style we fell in love with!!! In my opinion! Just my opinion! No more no less!!!👊✌
Oldskool DA9 At 3:59 I got some heavy nostalgia, people nowadays are all about "track day bro!", Ohh nice Time attack car", "I bet you go drifting with that thing", "you need more camber"...etc etc. Zero Yon is becoming a lost art really when it should be alive and preserved but it's pretty much dead and same goes with Kanjo or driving around and actually enjoying.
Takafumi Arisawa "zero yon"is basically American drag race influenced by the west! Even the kanjo guys are letting sum usdm style to their street builds from what I've noticed lately!! But still that heavy jdm influence can still be seen on sum these kanjo street race cars!!..
Oldskool DA9 Zero Yon is indeed influenced by the west but with an approach closer to classic hot roding, something around the lines of "lets make it cheap but fun and homemade". Modern Zero Yon is closer to the current western Dragging scene which goes around "funnel funds, make someone else build your car for you and talk shit with betting in the middle". The current import scene is a bit obscene in general, take classic Japanese wheels for example, they've always came with a premium in terms of cost and use but all in all used to be affordable. Back then when I was into it my friends always preferred to get modern wheels because of the same reasons but now they reached ridiculous prices just because of the "legit" factor and call me an old lady but complete restores on classic wheels feels wrong. I used to wait for every 16th of the month just to see what kind of cars arrived to the docks and old cars in particular mostly for the wheels and bits and bobbles I could find inside the cars, for me, every layer of patina told a story. Now that I think of it i'm a bit of a hipster automotive aficionado.
I got goosebumps all the way through the video. How awesome it must have been back then. I really envy them, they got to experience a very special era that sadly won't be coming back. I wish I could've been around for that awesome time, too. At least I can enjoy those iconic cars from back then today... oh and: bananas
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You could spend your life wishing stuff from another era, or you could enjoy todays golden era of something that you may lose in the future and you're not noticing.
Don't get me wrong, of course I enjoy contemporary stuff, as well. For example I'm a big SpaceX fan and love how we're witnessing a new golden era for spaceflight, however that being said as a car enthusiast I'm abhorred by todays state of the market. The golden era of JDM cars is gone and car culture in general is just slowly dying. Just look at the crap manufacturers pour out. Endless eco crossovers and SUVs with electric and self driving cars looming on the horizon. So, when I look at what there was back in the day with tons of fun and engaging to drive cars instead of the dull crap we've got nowadays, that makes me really sad I didn't get to experience it and instead am one of maybe the last generation of car enthusiasts all together...
The crossover SUV plague is here in the U.K. where I live. I hate them. And they suck in our narrow city and town streets. They're driven by soccer moms who clog up the road and can't drive.
fahmi perwira oh definitely. A friend of mine, who was from Japan, moved to the US for awhile, then moved back to Japan. He's told me a lot about how much more polite and respectful people tend to be there. I really look up to Japan and how polite a lot of the people are.
Makes me sad this era is over for them and the years of racing those mountains is beginning to fade but people like you shedding light and bringing appreciation to the era just helps immortalize it more. Amazing series, my new fav channel on RU-vid. I subbed an bought some merch man keep it up 🤟🏼
@@zimizi compare how many people die from people racing vs how many die of chance accidents that happen between every other facet of road related incident. Cars are dangerous. People who don't know how to drive at all yet are still in cars scare me far more than guys who at least have some experience and want to go fast. The original comment, btw, was never about guys driving fast on public roads, it was about life in the most general of sense. And since life in general was better, you can infer the car culture and passion from back then was also greater.
zimizi Wrong these people really care about other motorists "didn't you hear him say that they would turn on their hazard lights when traffic was ahead" I can't think of any other race culture that does that than the Japanese.
No Nope I meant in terms of bringing back the big street race cultural phenomenon of the 90s and early 2000s. It’s kind of like skateboarding (which I still do on occasion) but it won’t bring skateboarding to what it used to be.
I am 48 and have been into imports since I could drive. Took a lot of crap from others because I did not have a mustang or IROC. I bout a ae86 new at 16 and this was my first car. Not because it was Iconic of course. No one knew it would be but because I loved its looks and the screaming little motor. I've been messing with Hondas after I sold that car and to this still am. I love my Hondas but will always love the RWD cars from the 90s as well.
I am 53 and me and sons still have 86, 88,and 91 Mustangs. Used to street race around DC and MD. Also spent a few years in Japan. 2004 Fuji and Yokahama were killer drift and racing,I ran a fairlady z there. Props to your hondas, with nitro you were giving us hell.
I loved old Celicas. I wish I'd kept one I had in the early 90's, but my beloved Mopar needed a donor car.... :) Even then, though, I wished I could just stick that chocolate-brown 70's Celica GT in a time capsule for myself for later. Loved those gearboxes especially. But, yaknow, Hursts are nice, too. :)
I'm 19 and i currently have no car and attend UTI an automotive tech school. Im surrounded by people everyday who are interested in cars but only a hand full of us care about japanese cars and an even smaller amount of us even know what touge is let alone Wangan or Initial D. My generation is also growing up in a society where we buy cars just to say we have them and then sell them when we find something "better" without forming any bond to our cars. I see these videos and the drivers from 30+ years ago, still have their cars and truly appreciate them. I plan to save for an S2000 as my first car. I really want to embed myself in the community and in a sense get people to help bring it back to life. I don't want this part of car culture to be just a period in history.
Of course you'd have this student lol pop up headlights are always my favorite but FCs are slowly becoming my second favorite. It's so neat seeing that old footage, it really puts you back there in time. That was my favorite part of this video.
I love cars with pop up headlights. They actually serve a practical purpose too. They keep the headlight lenses clearer by not exposing to the elements as much. Modern cars should bring them back.
TheDustyaman yeah that’s true. Honestly, it’s kind of our own fault because people do stupid shit and have no respect (channels like supercarsuspects) that makes us look way worse than we really are but I guess aside from staying away from that stuff there isn’t much you can do to change it
Dude Shark I just find it just relaxing working on my own car. I’ve been building my 75 Dodge Dart sport for about a year now. Only been on the road once and it died. With the 6 cyl it had. Now I’ve put in a 440 ci motor or a 7.2 Liter if you go by that measurements. And just going out and tinkering with it is almost as good as going to car events to be honest.
TheDustyaman yeah I completely understand that. I’m actually currently rebuilding a Subaru Legacy GT (EJ255) and should hopefully be finished Wednesday. It’s fun to be able to just show off with friends though. My daily is actually an 05 Mustang GT but I love going out and talking with my buddies even though they’re all pretty much only import guys
Dude Shark oh I agree ☝️. I hang out with my car buds and a lot of them have actually put their hands on my car and helped. That’s cool you have a legacy there cool cars. Cool it’s almost done. Mine is about 2 years out from being done.
This is bananas! I just recently started watching Initial D, and videos make me wish I could have seen the real life racers of Mt Haruna when this subculture was at it's peak.
I really do love the car scene there...Its all love really, everyone I have ever gotten a chance to talk to there about the car scene is always positive. They all just love it, from the guys that go all out on kei cars, the drifters and drag guys. I guess I am more like the grass roots drifters.... 91 silvia, shes got some battle damage, mismatching parts, loose and rattles, but I keep her going and love her no matter what.
Me too my God! We had a small drifting community say, around the mid 90s to mid 00s, but this is so much more... interesting, in a way. It has a different vibe to it, yet this same nostalgia.
*I'm only on **04:34**min, but I already loved so much the content, that stopped for a little to only congrats for your work, and show through your work how you make people happy like me* *Yes I'll subscribe NOW* *Cheers mate*
@@dosentmatteranymore9727 mai iss baat pe naa bolna chahunga. Tokyo Drift, I understand, kyuki UTV bindass pe bachpan mei hazar baar dekhi hai par Initial D boht rare cheez hai. Also, our population is considerably large enough ji har jagah ek bhartiya mil jaye, so there's that too.
@@dhruv1019 bhai mein bhi initial D ka fan hu and it hurts to know that rules and regulations for modding cars in india is so strict , bhencho turbo chodo apne yaha toh color bhi nahi badlwa sakte. Kaash india mein aisa car culture ho , all i see r ricers here , i really wanna witness some fine tuned car here in india .
@Fin Frog Fujiwara zone can be achieved in real life too, but the conditions for it are too surreal in real life, like for example, the perfect road grip to tire ratio, angle of drifting, acceleration works...
Fascinating video. Fun to see cars that were considered cheap over there back in the day are now gems for collectors. I myself own a 98 FD and hopefully when space and money allows a buildt FC (no ls nonsense)
I found this channel randomly and I decided to watch it and I did not expect to be so invested into the story that I also started watching initial D the Anime,Movie(Although it was bad),And Recently reading the manga online.
This video is sooo amazing!!! Lol bananas, please do more. I suggest visiting Mt Akagi or some other famous drift places with the owner of the fc and r32, that would be everything!!!
