How Japanese Street Racers Created the Best Car Magazine Ever - Past Gas #52

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  • @spacemoai
    @spacemoai 4 роки тому +159

    I'd LOVE to see an ACTUAL Donut media magazines....

    • @nitrous36
      @nitrous36 4 роки тому +14

      Like for limited printed issues hahaha. Just as a one time thing, would be cool.

    • @BEN-us7ue
      @BEN-us7ue 4 роки тому +4

      YEEESSS

    • @saulthomas6532
      @saulthomas6532 3 роки тому

      i realize I'm kinda off topic but does anyone know of a good place to watch newly released tv shows online?

    • @jimmyjohnny280
      @jimmyjohnny280 3 роки тому

      @Saul Thomas Flixportal :P

    • @saulthomas6532
      @saulthomas6532 3 роки тому

      @Jimmy Johnny Thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it !!

  • @musewolfman
    @musewolfman 4 роки тому +49

    The girls in Import Tuner helped me realize I'm not straight. "Ma'am, could you PLEASE move so I can see the RX-7?"

    • @joaquimconceicao8775
      @joaquimconceicao8775 3 роки тому +7

      You don't need to be gay to say that!!!

    • @faraziqbal188
      @faraziqbal188 3 роки тому +7

      I’m completely straight but I agree, the hot girls can fuck off cause nobody’s got curves like an FD

    • @King_droid4908
      @King_droid4908 3 роки тому +1

      Because female models are pretty slim thats why

    • @TheMaddProfessor1
      @TheMaddProfessor1 3 роки тому +8

      Autosexual

    • @HeroofSomething
      @HeroofSomething 2 роки тому

      @@TheMaddProfessor1 not only not straight but a virgin... kek manuasexual

  • @JesFos
    @JesFos 4 роки тому +37

    Female Car Enthusiast here! 🙋‍♀️
    Thank you for addressing the "tuner girl" thing. I remember buying tuner magazines and being frustrated that they were littered with models. Flipping through the pages in highschool could get awkward.

    • @idkwhattoputhere4695
      @idkwhattoputhere4695 4 роки тому +6

      Same, but I’m a gay guy lol. Less girls more cars please!

    • @desthelegend9353
      @desthelegend9353 3 роки тому +11

      I’m straight, but I’d rather not get caught looking a models when I’m tryna look at cars

    • @turboandy69
      @turboandy69 Рік тому +3

      As a man I get annoyed every time I see a car magazine with these models in it. If I wanted to look at models, I'd buy something related to that. But for gods sake I want to know about the cars.

    • @imvivalamilo
      @imvivalamilo 11 місяців тому +2

      @@turboandy69Imagine buying a playboy magazine and it’s filled with pictures of tuner cars

    • @turboandy69
      @turboandy69 11 місяців тому +1

      @@imvivalamilo I'd come

  • @adampuga8059
    @adampuga8059 4 роки тому +70

    Nobody is going to mention Joe's guess of 420ft/lbs of torque? Nice Joe. Nice.

  • @itsameyaboi
    @itsameyaboi 4 роки тому +21

    I remember getting my car on the cover of Turbo Magazine, opened up my whole career, 3 URL races and a sponsership
    *NFSU2 jokes*

  • @nathanchildress5596
    @nathanchildress5596 3 роки тому +10

    I learn so much from this series, like how Team Midnight invented lunch, and that Polyphia’s been a band since 1948. Great work.

  • @Chrys-T
    @Chrys-T 4 роки тому +35

    Nolan: "first car magazine.. in 1895." Joe: "It has a woman pulling up her long dress and you see like, an inch of ankle."

  • @m1lkb0xx
    @m1lkb0xx 4 роки тому +17

    growing up in Southern California, I would go to the asian grocery stores and pick up Japanese magazines on VWs and Mini Cooper, and that's what got me into GTI's and Mini coopers.

    • @lukeday87
      @lukeday87 4 роки тому +1

      So you bought japanese magazines to read about european cars?

    • @yungstaeggy
      @yungstaeggy 3 роки тому

      Mr. Worldwide

    • @Kev27RS
      @Kev27RS 10 місяців тому

      @@lukeday87For real… 😂
      Plenty of English language magazines about Euro cars!

  • @HeroofSomething
    @HeroofSomething 2 роки тому +2

    22:04 correction, while Option did make the videos and such, it was actually a collab that Smokey did with Max magazine in the UK, but to get more exposure, Smokey took Option with him to the UK so they could write their own stuff about him in Japan.

  • @ashleymalzard2865
    @ashleymalzard2865 4 роки тому +1

    In Australia we have 2 big car mags: Wheels for new cars in general, and Motor for sports and performance cars, (plus other mags for trucls and motorbikes).
    Ever since i started earning wages i used to buy both Wheels and Motor (admittedly, Motor was my favourite). I learnt so much about so many different cars and the companies that made them, it really helped solidify my love for cars, what made them tick, and how they were able to do what they were built to do.
    Love cars, love Donut. Keep us fired up with your awesome content. Never stop learning new things

  • @kyleturner115
    @kyleturner115 4 роки тому +8

    "Zach Jobe cries in front of miata" cant wait to read that article

  • @Post_Maquel
    @Post_Maquel 3 роки тому +5

    Daijiro Inada is so cool. Living your life the way you wanted (without harming anyone of course) is the best way to go and live IMO. I'm getting an options magazine after this

  • @billyccall5774
    @billyccall5774 4 роки тому +9

    Valvoline, its like Vaseline for your car ;D

  • @omarnael5902
    @omarnael5902 3 роки тому +1

    @Dount Podcasts 18:15 DAEWOO Lanos is a very popular car in Egypt a lot of people still use them, because they are cheap and they are still in manufacture till this day , so their parts are cheap and very easy to find

  • @stefanyosifov8481
    @stefanyosifov8481 4 роки тому +7

    James I love that Polyphia t shirt! Keep it real and don't forget to "More Powaaaa Babeee"

  • @ryanoptekar7654
    @ryanoptekar7654 4 роки тому +14

    “Don’t turbo a Z.”
    -Donut
    “Twin turbo v6 400z”
    -Nissan

    • @sharklegs
      @sharklegs 3 роки тому

      Nissan: Twin turbo 300ZX

  • @renzosay
    @renzosay 4 роки тому +1

    That jazz bgm in their ads is so satisfying. The only reason I don't skip the ads 😂

  • @mattwhalley7055
    @mattwhalley7055 4 роки тому +1

    Please do a full series on the rise and fall of group B rally! Please! Love the channel

  • @thatonenigeriansformula
    @thatonenigeriansformula 4 роки тому +4

    I really want a 500hp r33 wagon stagea with side pipes in grey and alloy bbs wheels but some thick track bous

  • @clyons5341
    @clyons5341 4 роки тому

    I love this podcast
    Please don’t stop making it
    I put these on while I drive for work and it makes the time fly
    It makes me laugh
    And it’s extremely interesting
    If you have to start talking about different types of headlights or why the 10mm is THE tool so be it
    I’ll be listening 💪🏻

  • @bigrodboys7888
    @bigrodboys7888 4 дні тому

    This podcast had the SAUCE during these glory days. Ill always miss James

  • @Jeffmackens
    @Jeffmackens 4 роки тому +8

    Lived in Japan for years... Option is just what you said, legendary!

    • @thatcopenguy
      @thatcopenguy 4 роки тому

      Is that your Cappuccino? I love kei cars :)

  • @huntertippetts3670
    @huntertippetts3670 4 роки тому +8

    That chair behind Jame's head has been flipped like that for ever lmao.

  • @nick_a_pagan
    @nick_a_pagan 4 роки тому +3

    Option is definitely on of the GOATS

  • @Paul8v
    @Paul8v 3 роки тому +1

    Shout out for Max Power! What a magazine that was, the cruise section at the back "Pink or Brown?" :-D

    • @Kev27RS
      @Kev27RS 10 місяців тому +1

      Yeah 😂

  • @DBUCKS1988
    @DBUCKS1988 4 роки тому

    Street trucks! Was my favorite magazine in my teens. Just a bunch of slammed little trucks with pretty wild paint jobs.

  • @elektrosoundwave
    @elektrosoundwave 4 роки тому +3

    Excellent episode. You guys should do a feature on Lowrider Magazine.

  • @codykrepps7711
    @codykrepps7711 4 роки тому

    The podcast is awesome. I’ve listened to every single one plus yalls other shows.

  • @BEN-us7ue
    @BEN-us7ue 4 роки тому +4

    Keep it up with all the ads guys. No, really. I'd like to see you guys do or build more expensive things. Much love

  • @brandonscully
    @brandonscully 4 роки тому +1

    I still have my sport compact car magazines. The best of the bunch

  • @DOSOtopukus
    @DOSOtopukus 4 роки тому +13

    this sounds like the longest script reading ever

    • @flamcheeseful
      @flamcheeseful 4 роки тому +4

      Yeah the script info is good but the podcast is better when they are joking about it, it's funny to me when nolan has to reign it back on topic. But they are getting alot better about just joking through the topics.

  • @PaulCarter-mz1we
    @PaulCarter-mz1we 5 місяців тому

    Any chance of an episode on Max Power Magazine and other British tuning magazines? Besides the 'tuner girls', promoting the 198mph run, Vicki Butler-Henderson from the original Top Gear being the assistant launch editor and mechanic, having a PS1 game named after it and links with the UK version of Pimp my Ride for starters.

  • @drockprince9135
    @drockprince9135 4 роки тому

    I was always a fan of Turbo and high performance magazine. I liked the technical content.

  • @charlie55123
    @charlie55123 4 роки тому +6

    we should rename boost creeps "11:45 club"

  • @ashas7730
    @ashas7730 4 роки тому

    thank you guys!

  • @thefinch8021
    @thefinch8021 4 роки тому +4

    we need donut magazine

  • @phonkmasterflex7103
    @phonkmasterflex7103 4 роки тому

    I remember first coming across Donut Media through your collab with Alex Marchant, Cow Chop, and personally don’t know shit about cars and was hooked by not only your content on both channels, but mainly your individual personalities and the synergy between you guys. Plus I’ve always found the world or racing and the history so interesting, and the way you guys serve it up for my ears like a tasty steak. Hands down best find and subscription ive made this year. Thanks ya buncha Donuts. Mmmmmm donuts (Homer Simpson drooling sound) I nutted

  • @jamesmarze9850
    @jamesmarze9850 4 роки тому +1

    Polyphia!! James your like my long lost older brother!

  • @Chrys-T
    @Chrys-T 4 роки тому

    @Donut Podcasts I'm super confused @48:55 James says the supra is RB powered, which I thought had to be wrong. I googled top secret RB26, then top secret 1gz and I can't tell which powertrain did what. :(

    • @mx73proslider
      @mx73proslider 4 роки тому

      Yeah the one he was arrested in was rb26 powered. The 1gz Supra didn’t really do too much in the way of racing/driving and wasn’t that powerful tbh.

  • @kevingunn2097
    @kevingunn2097 4 роки тому

    This is the magic I come here for ha! love you guys another hour of my life wasted the right way

  • @dakotadiecast2528
    @dakotadiecast2528 4 роки тому

    My teenage magazine selection was Car and Driver, Lowriider, Lowrider Euro, and Import Tuner.

  • @donnyjosker1980
    @donnyjosker1980 3 роки тому

    You guys should do a donut magazine like option magazine was back in the day I do believe it would do good and you can have people in charge of different areas around the United States for different styles and clubs and just interviewing people about their cars and what they have in them and what's going on the scene in their state maybe a section where it could be some crazy put-together street cars that are done in home and not by shops. And even sell limited edition stickers that are donut but look like option stickers from back in the day 2

  • @blackturtle9897
    @blackturtle9897 4 роки тому +2

    You guys should do a podcast on the widow maker turbo 911 & how it got it’s name

  • @Wien
    @Wien 4 роки тому

    I remember Option.... good ol days, when I when I arrived back in America, I swapped out for Sport Compact Car magazine. And man, do I miss the hell out of Sport Compact Car.

  • @jeramiebradford1
    @jeramiebradford1 4 роки тому

    'Turbo and hi tech performance' was the name of turbo magazine, it was my favorite

  • @bhryian
    @bhryian 3 роки тому

    great ep! would be interesting to see what that magazine would look (and smell) like! also, my boi james kickin it with grados!

  • @cheshiregrinn9847
    @cheshiregrinn9847 4 роки тому

    I’ve collected Option, Super Street, Modified, Import Tuner and D-Sport magazines for years!! I only get Super Street now tho, so many sweet rides. Being an American sucks sometimes hahaha.

  • @nephilim3090
    @nephilim3090 4 роки тому

    After you talked about sniffing memories my phone started loading and I thought it was just 4 minutes of silence hahaha

  • @STGrigar
    @STGrigar 4 роки тому

    You guys are awasome love watching all of it just a thought. New gas ⛽ west coast tuners would be sick

  • @ScotSteam47
    @ScotSteam47 4 роки тому

    Banzai and Japanese Performance were where it was at in the UK for magazines.

  • @Knockthefout
    @Knockthefout 4 роки тому +2

    Love u all three❤️ and zach too. Where is that high speed crashes video. Plz share link

  • @ivanramirez8247
    @ivanramirez8247 3 роки тому

    Yeah I love hearing you guys going off script it's fun to hear u guys joke around

  • @MoonsOfEmpire
    @MoonsOfEmpire 3 роки тому

    I was so stoked to be googling turbo magazine and happened to be looking at the jay leno nos cover as joe started taking about it. I’m my own Jamie! Pull that shit up… but you do need moar visuals plz

  • @SLOWVERT
    @SLOWVERT 6 місяців тому

    Damn that delicious vinyl skateboard… legendary

  • @itsand1866
    @itsand1866 4 роки тому +9

    Bro James is 35? I thought this dude was like in his late 20s or early 30s

    • @fastinradfordable
      @fastinradfordable 4 роки тому +4

      30 is the new 20.
      Didn’t you hear?

    • @siddharthsandurea1940
      @siddharthsandurea1940 4 роки тому +1

      I thought he was in his 40s

    • @WhuDhat
      @WhuDhat 3 роки тому

      I thought he was just my imaginary friend
      Guess I don't need these pills anymore

  • @kk23481
    @kk23481 4 роки тому +1

    i currently live in Japan and people really don’t care about how much horsepower your car has or how fast 0-60 in straight lines. they would often joke “that’s an American thing”

    • @sharklegs
      @sharklegs 3 роки тому

      Whats a type of thing they rather care about then ?

    • @kk23481
      @kk23481 3 роки тому

      @@sharklegs slapping LED strips and anime stickers I guess.lol but honestly I admire how much thought they put into the balance of the car, handling, and then their driving skills. obviously, the touge and drifting styles versus drag strips. When you ask “how much horsepower you got?” most of the time they wouldn’t even know. I guess that’s how less they care about engine output. Not sure if you know what the “shutokoh highway” is, but the street racers here are insane. Get out there any night of the week and you’ll find someone chasing somebody through these tight high speed turns.

    • @sharklegs
      @sharklegs 3 роки тому

      @@kk23481 okay i get that, thanks for the insight

  • @arceyes
    @arceyes 4 роки тому

    Speed & Sound and Max Power!

  • @keeders08
    @keeders08 3 роки тому

    Dude, the rants are the best parts, Nolan. Christ on a bike, bro!

  • @walimane2348
    @walimane2348 3 роки тому

    Bro I just posted about turbo the other day I used to love geekin out wit the fresh turbo mag at the house

  • @twofortydrifter
    @twofortydrifter 4 роки тому

    I actually know most of the stuff this podcast presents. I do come here for the inanity. I love it.

  • @Icedmkz7
    @Icedmkz7 4 роки тому

    In Brasil we kinda have a megazine like that, auto esporte, I wish they spoke about tuners, but it's there a heavy influence of option in it

  • @djbriantalbot
    @djbriantalbot 4 роки тому

    100% agree about Super Street and Sport Compact Car being the perfect duo. Sprinkle in some honda-tech.com and HMT, and you have my eg6. #chrome #bre #neptune

  • @BurpleRX7
    @BurpleRX7 4 роки тому

    Tokyo Auto Salon is incredible I have been 4 times now,
    What I will say is it’s INCREDIBLY busy. Literally shoulder to shoulder. And you will see a lot a LOT of creepy old men with big cameras and long lenses zooming in on the models on every stand.
    They literally have DJ shows and dancing girls performing with crowds 5-6 deep trying to film them.
    It bugs out a lot of the car guys but it also brings in a lot of publicity.
    Last time I was there Ken block and mad mike made a appearance.
    Even better is checking out the car parks outside as it’s full of dream 90s shit boxes

  • @tofu042
    @tofu042 4 роки тому

    I got the first issue of Option Magazine including the folded in poster. Yes I am kinda proud of that, thats why I am posting it in a youtube comment.

  • @MGHines0517
    @MGHines0517 3 роки тому

    39:05 me pausing every other second looking up cars

  • @JasinMac
    @JasinMac 4 роки тому

    These guys are great.

  • @IsaiahSchmitmeyer
    @IsaiahSchmitmeyer Рік тому

    I remember seeing magazines like that and wanted to read them over here

  • @travezripley
    @travezripley 4 роки тому +2

    I would pick these magazines at Mitsuwa and Yohan and Nijiya every week!!!

    • @donnyjosker1980
      @donnyjosker1980 3 роки тому

      Once I moved from Japan and then went to California Mitsuya would hold me over they did have a lot of japanese groceries and household stuff along with certain magaizines and cool stuff so it helped when i was missing all the japanese stuff .man what great time in my life i definetly miss japan .

  • @55Aarronneedham
    @55Aarronneedham 4 роки тому +3

    A girl demoing different techniques and breaking down the science behind driving would be cool. That would be a dope "girls" tab haha even just stuff like oversteer/understeer, heal toe, power sliding vs drifting, drag racing pulls and reaction times, dowforce vs no areo, ect. There could be months of new content and bring new people to the culture.

    • @flamcheeseful
      @flamcheeseful 4 роки тому

      Emily Hartford look her up

    • @flamcheeseful
      @flamcheeseful 4 роки тому

      The the channel woman driven does most of her own mechanical work.

  • @thatcopenguy
    @thatcopenguy 4 роки тому

    I went to amazon japan during this podcast and just bought a Japanese tuning magazine that I probably can't actually read lmao
    Not option but I found a yearly release just for Daihatsu Copen tuning. Will get option next time.

  • @concernedcitizen2766
    @concernedcitizen2766 4 роки тому +1

    @nolanjsykes needs, NEEDS, a Hellephant in the Imperial, it’s CRUUUCH!

  • @dukenewcastle
    @dukenewcastle 3 роки тому +1

    I would love to see a female donut instead of talking crap about the magazines that objectify women. You know like put our money where our mouth is? Girl Dad here, learning as well, not judging. Love you guys. Keep the conversation going yall! Duke of Nashville.

  • @jamesmcintoshjr
    @jamesmcintoshjr 4 роки тому

    OMG, I remember the car SCC chopped up to get it faster- the white Sentra they literally chopped down to the frame! (which I think made it 2 seconds faster in the 1/4)

  • @bluboi1483
    @bluboi1483 4 роки тому

    Smokeys V12 supra was hella dope!

  • @paysonkramer1731
    @paysonkramer1731 4 роки тому +4

    Yeeeeeeeessssssss new upload

  • @kingofsludge7262
    @kingofsludge7262 4 роки тому +5

    It’s party time:)

  • @deemond5289
    @deemond5289 4 роки тому +1

    Yeah, Max Power. I read that when I worked in a filling station a long time ago in a land far away. Purple, bodykitted Ford Escort XR3I's with standard seats in them. That sorta tacky, If anyone was wondering. They will hunt me down now.

    • @deemond5289
      @deemond5289 4 роки тому

      @@grievuspwn4g3 I'm glad to hear that, I will probably be doing the same thing :)

  • @joshyoung4718
    @joshyoung4718 4 роки тому

    I grew up with Modified Mag (90s baby)

  • @mcanderson0
    @mcanderson0 4 роки тому

    Sport Compact Car FTW! Disco Potato, The Dave Point, and so many other iconic details that really gave it character. Skip the models and the ricey BS, give me a clean, well tuned, purpose build import.

  • @christianmichalsky2826
    @christianmichalsky2826 4 роки тому

    Y'all should do a Past Gas episode of RWB or Liberty Walk

  • @yookalaylee2289
    @yookalaylee2289 4 роки тому +3

    Hell yah polyphia shirt!

  • @aidanlorimer5413
    @aidanlorimer5413 4 роки тому

    Donut magazine is something I would buy in 0.0000001 seconds I want that

  • @30MrBappMan
    @30MrBappMan 4 роки тому

    Nolan an I are the same age. I don’t feel old anymore 🤣✊🏾💯

  • @TheMarsTony
    @TheMarsTony 4 роки тому

    1. DSPORT
    and then
    2. Super Street
    3. Project Car
    4. Sport Compact Car
    5. Import Tuner
    6. PasMag

  • @thecoreelementsmoto
    @thecoreelementsmoto 4 роки тому +1

    Loved sport compact car!

  • @gavintoye2200
    @gavintoye2200 4 роки тому +5

    Do a past gas on how Nascar started

  • @navelswine0999
    @navelswine0999 4 роки тому

    Impossible to have finished the podcast at this moment

  • @On3_media
    @On3_media 4 роки тому +1

    *DONT TURBO A DE 350z* without building the motor.
    HR/VHR are the way.

  • @matthew_natividad
    @matthew_natividad 4 роки тому +1

    Can u guys also do one on group B

  • @james_chatman
    @james_chatman 4 роки тому +3

    I'd read that Donut magazine at the stand every week. Plastic wrapper be damned.

    • @GMT-tx2xz
      @GMT-tx2xz 4 роки тому

      Buy two, read one and keep the other

  • @AGhettoHoodlum
    @AGhettoHoodlum 4 роки тому

    James rockin the Polyphia shirt I see you!

  • @zu_1455
    @zu_1455 Рік тому

    This vid needs 200k views, at least.

  • @bnf2722
    @bnf2722 4 роки тому

    seriously.. make magazines!! not only would they be cool but in the future they would be viewed as cool retro collectible media

  • @syn_is_here
    @syn_is_here 3 роки тому

    I know my dads firebird was in a few magazines. But I don’t know if they were local mags or actually big cars mags

    • @syn_is_here
      @syn_is_here 3 роки тому

      Okay so it was actually my dads transam that was in like 3 issues of Pontiac enthusiasts, and two issues of the hot rod magazine

  • @aaron30569
    @aaron30569 4 роки тому

    Where can you read option magazine in english?

  • @2988jake
    @2988jake 3 роки тому

    I have hundreds of “turbo” later changed to “turbo & high performance” magazines. By far the best if you’re a car nerd 🤘

  • @kIoudie
    @kIoudie 4 роки тому

    whoooo yay, fired up more power baby

  • @nitrous36
    @nitrous36 4 роки тому

    13:32 Stig? hahaha

  • @TheCloudsMySofa
    @TheCloudsMySofa 4 роки тому

    no mention of the best magazines, Project Car Tuner, DSport and Modified !

  • @adamdenzinger576
    @adamdenzinger576 3 роки тому

    And now I like Joe even more. Z31 FOR LIFE!!!