I used to work at a hot rod shop that specialized in these cars back in high school. Most of the cars in the video are early 30s. Nearly all the cars here have removed their fenders. A car w/o fenders is referred to as a ‘highboy’ and this was a very popular modification when these cars came out. Lots of the cars in this video also have the trumpet style headers, which were also incredibly popular. Many of the cars have had their engines swapped to a Chevrolet 350, despite being primarily Ford models. Likely due to availability and reliability.
A hot rod without fenders isn't necessarily a highboy. A lot of these cars have the bodies channeled over the frame, so not a highboy. I saw very few SBCs. I did see a lot of Flathead Fords and Bangers and the such. All pretty normal for traditional hot rods. There are also plenty of cars from the 20s as well.
I love it so much my grandpa used to do this kind of dirt circle track racing in Michigan. Tying the springs was a super common modification. Definitely 40s-50s racers really wish my grandpa was still around to show this video too I'm sure he would have gotten a kick from this
@@edumacted all you see nowadays is "ls swap" everywhere or "crate motor" but not hot rodding and classic cars restoration and driving them, everywhere being 1000 hp garage queens that "will probably make under 10's in the strip" but are all sound and lights, started once a year for an exhibition and put to rest until its price soars up and gets sold again.
Many people in the comments are calling these cars rat rods. These are traditional hot rods with similar and perioid correct mods that 40s-60s hot rods had. Maybe some these were even originally built during that era. Rat rod is a newer thing. Rust, dents and other imperfections don’t make hot rod a rat rod. Rat rods are made to look ratty on purpose and usually have modern parts.
As a traditional hot Rod enthusiast here in the United States, I honestly think that the hot rod culture in Japan goes above and beyond what we do in the states. Their sheer amount of passion for what they do is through the roof! I can’t wait to go to Japan for the Mooneyes show!
@@WhuDhat the quality of lowriders in Japan put lowriders in the U.S. to shame (in general). I built a lowrider when I lived in California over 10 years ago. It was extremely hard to find a quality fabricator that had attention to detail, and that I trusted. I ended up hauling my car to Vegas to get the frame off fabrication done and hydraulics installed.
I'm willing to bet a few of these were former trailer queens or show cars and their former owners have no idea how their living in Japan now having the snot driven out of them.
My thoughts exactly! I never thought I’d see cars like this being driven like this. If they weren’t garage queens sadly they probably wouldn’t be in as good of shape
@@jamesricks reguardless if they were garage queens In their past life or not I’m surprised at how most of them seem to have stock original body panels that are in damn good shape for how old they are
haha I can just imagine a guy selling his polished pride and joy on bring a trailer and the auction closes, he excitedly waits for the results... YES!! he got more than he expected, where is it going? JAPAN‽, WHAT‽‽‽
Ah, the good old Ford Flathead. 130 optimistic hp at a whopping 4500 rpm but damn do they always sound good. So nice to see people out there having fun with these cars. If this were in America, there'd be countless crying baby dolls propped up against them and tons of boomers in Hawaiian shirts sitting in foldable chairs behind them. Japanese once again doing our car culture better in most cases.
Thank you for sharing this part of car culture and not just JDM and drifting, sure i like that to! but i love american classic cars, i drive a 63 Cadillac my self and it is fun to se how the Japanese do Hot Rodding and Classic cars over there :) Cheers!
As an American, it always amazes me how much other countries know about our history, while we as Americans (collectively) know so little about other countries’ histories. We aren’t taught any other history than American history in school until college, and usually it’s voluntary. Very cool to see these folks enjoying these ratrods!
As someone who used to live deep within the hills of moonshine country, I love seeing this. NASCAR started from bootleggers pitting their modified cars against each other.
Big engines and skinny tires, sliding around in the dirt? That's honestly not far off Grand Prix racing in the 1910's and 1920's. I've always loved the idea of thrashing an old Bugatti or Fiat down a dusty road, this is basically the next best thing!
Japan:"The space next to the river cannot be used for housing because of potential flooding." Politicians in my country:"(let's pretend we did not hear that), cheap real estate people!"
Man, I love your vids. The shot at 3:37 was funny, and the short explanation at 4:04 is appreciated, I've always seen those landscapes in my Japanese animus, now I know why.
I live in a blue collar enclave on the west coast of the US. The town next to me is know for hot rods, kustoms and an active chapter of the Hells Angels, while my city was known for Lowriders (my city made cruising illegal in '98). It's awesome to see the Japanese replicating our car culture! My neighbor who built a show '61 Impala mentioned some of his buddies in his club being approached by Japanese fans and being offered over 100k for their rides on the spot! The only thing that bugs me is that as these rides age and international interest gets bigger, it's becoming more and more of a rich man's hobby. Back in the day, lowrider clubs had a guys who was a mechanic, another dude who was an electrician, a body guy and they would help each other out building some dope cars. Now these cars are becoming unattainable as the day goes by! Anyways, I'm not on here to hate, I love the attention to detail the Japanese crowd strives for!
seeing these super old cars being driven hard isnt something we get to see everyday lol even my daily doesnt get abused like that XD but its cool tho, cars before the 70s were dang wicked!
Awesome machines and what a great venue. These guys sure know how to have fun. Very cool and surprising event report, thank you Alexi👍 Keep thinking, Japanese moonshine, a world market awaits.
Most of what you are seeing is they typical "Lake" or "Lakester" style, especially the red Ford(?) with the rounded nose on it. Also, most of the time when they run no fenders and jack up the rear to give it a rake in the front you would call that a "HiBoy" but thats usually reserved for more of a pristine Hot Rod and not the Rat Rod style that seems to be the other theme here
Many of the cars are from the 20s and 30s, but the vast majority of these are 40s-50s style traditional rods, although there were a few prewar style roadsters in the mix. Also looking at the cars in the video, the registration thing must apply to atleast 1933. The Dodge Dart was also cool, looks like the owner is going for an early 60s factory super stock look. American manufacturers were heavily involved in drag racing in the early 60s, so you could get factory lightweight/high power cars intended for super stock drag racing.
So so cool! I had no idea there was/is that much classic iron in Japan! Add: On style, some are going for the 'Rat Rod' look, but I see a lot of pure PostWar classic hot rods, when soldiers were returning from over seas and souping up the average two door/coupe, striping them down for weight and going for a ride. Also a few 'moonshiner specials' for good measure!
"Side motor" and "Side power" painted labels are probably about the engines being "side valve engines" ? meaning flathead engines? it´s cool to see various kinds of events in japan. :D Next up Vanning events and custom minivans? Right? LUL
Those heavily chopped highboys are cool. I'm out of the loop on the traditional hot-rod scene here in Los Angeles, but I don't remember seeing this specific look. I dig it!
Makes me want to bring the vt commodore to japan and drift at ebisu and tsukuba. Though id prefer a jzx90 mk2 with a cresta front clip, it would be cool to see a turbo ecotec making the rounds at drift days there
I know it's like a meme that "Japanese do it better" but really... any event in America with cars this old, 95% of them are trailer queens, LS swapped, polished frames, body-swapped Corvette chassis, etc. and the rest are trying _entirely_ way too hard to be "edgy" and rough, rusty on purpose, etc. Every car in this video is 10x cooler and more "authentic" than a bagged Frankenstein car/truck/thing on 22's with tractor tires, fake patina, 1000 hours worth of metal fab and tacked on fake "junk" parts, etc. TBH it's low key embarrassing that Japan does traditional American hotrodding better than America. 😒
Oh shit! A trip down memory lane . . . my aunt had one one of those shoebox Fords her nickname was “Barney Oldfield” lol! I used to drift my pickup truck on dirt roads . . . I thought I was Stirling Moss! I’m 77 years old. 👍👍😁
Hey man incredible video! Japanese people are the fuckin coolest people I swear. If you could do a video on a clean 5th gen prelude I would personally love that man. I own a us model and can only imagine the cool preludes in Japan. Cheers man stay safe!
I was thinking the whole time "the only thing this is missing is the pretty Ms. Picciolina" but there she was... Although just a glimpse of her. Anyhoo, howdy y'all!
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Apologies in advance for my terrible Texas accent. More info about this event on Instagram instagram.com/babbittbank_trophy/
It's ok. I live in Texas and have a terrible accent too. Lol
we need more american car event coverage just to hear more of your accent LOL
Australians are just British Texans lol
it was an amazing intro
I lived in Texas for 16 years. I think you'd fit right in around Houston or San Antonio with that accent tbh
Somewhere in an alternate universe, there’s an American Alexi imitating an Australian Accent
Hahaha
He was scary good at that ngl
Doubt it Americans don't know there is a Australia
@@charleyharris4943 isn't Australia a region in New Zealand?
All ute event
Love how japan just does everything
Literally. I’m from America originally and haven’t even seen anything like this there.
Japan does everything - what you want and a few things you definitely do not want
@@jamesricks Motivation quote: be the American the Japanese think you are
well, besides fire arms
@@jamesricks You’re not from the right part of America then
I used to work at a hot rod shop that specialized in these cars back in high school. Most of the cars in the video are early 30s. Nearly all the cars here have removed their fenders. A car w/o fenders is referred to as a ‘highboy’ and this was a very popular modification when these cars came out. Lots of the cars in this video also have the trumpet style headers, which were also incredibly popular.
Many of the cars have had their engines swapped to a Chevrolet 350, despite being primarily Ford models. Likely due to availability and reliability.
I'm not familiar with these cars at all, so thanks for the extra info!
A hot rod without fenders isn't necessarily a highboy. A lot of these cars have the bodies channeled over the frame, so not a highboy. I saw very few SBCs. I did see a lot of Flathead Fords and Bangers and the such. All pretty normal for traditional hot rods. There are also plenty of cars from the 20s as well.
It is common to see a old ford engine swapped to a Chevy because there are more modes for them
The flag lady’s enthusiasm 100% made me smile
I love it so much my grandpa used to do this kind of dirt circle track racing in Michigan. Tying the springs was a super common modification. Definitely 40s-50s racers really wish my grandpa was still around to show this video too I'm sure he would have gotten a kick from this
I love this "Cars were built to be driven" attitude. I wish we could get back to that, both with modern, but also classic cars.
Isn't that why we have Wayne Carini and Jay Leno in this timeline?
@@lordofrims if those are the only people you can name with this attitude then something needs to change
@@edumacted all you see nowadays is "ls swap" everywhere or "crate motor" but not hot rodding and classic cars restoration and driving them, everywhere being 1000 hp garage queens that "will probably make under 10's in the strip" but are all sound and lights, started once a year for an exhibition and put to rest until its price soars up and gets sold again.
I didn't expect this, so this is even more appreciated ✌️
Haha nobody can expect this
Many people in the comments are calling these cars rat rods. These are traditional hot rods with similar and perioid correct mods that 40s-60s hot rods had. Maybe some these were even originally built during that era. Rat rod is a newer thing. Rust, dents and other imperfections don’t make hot rod a rat rod. Rat rods are made to look ratty on purpose and usually have modern parts.
There is literaly no one other than yourself that talk about Ratrod here, I scrolled all the way down ya clown
@@BLACKOMAMBO There were many comments earlier. I dont know why you cant see them. I even replied to some of them ”ya clown”. :D
As a traditional hot Rod enthusiast here in the United States, I honestly think that the hot rod culture in Japan goes above and beyond what we do in the states. Their sheer amount of passion for what they do is through the roof! I can’t wait to go to Japan for the Mooneyes show!
are you familiar with their lowrider culture as well? I think that's where their passion shines the most
Right? Everything in US now is "Rat Rod" meaning "I pulled an absolutely rusted through 32 ford with barely any metal out of pond and put an LS in it"
@@WhuDhat the quality of lowriders in Japan put lowriders in the U.S. to shame (in general). I built a lowrider when I lived in California over 10 years ago. It was extremely hard to find a quality fabricator that had attention to detail, and that I trusted. I ended up hauling my car to Vegas to get the frame off fabrication done and hydraulics installed.
@@WhuDhat yes i am! They make Whittier Boulevard in California look like it isnt the top gun.
After reading your comment, now I know about the Mooneyes show in Japan, I never heard about it before, thanks for that!
I'm willing to bet a few of these were former trailer queens or show cars and their former owners have no idea how their living in Japan now having the snot driven out of them.
My thoughts exactly! I never thought I’d see cars like this being driven like this.
If they weren’t garage queens sadly they probably wouldn’t be in as good of shape
@@jamesricks reguardless if they were garage queens In their past life or not I’m surprised at how most of them seem to have stock original body panels that are in damn good shape for how old they are
They also import things like low riders and there are a few very famous ones riding through Tokyo.
haha I can just imagine a guy selling his polished pride and joy on bring a trailer and the auction closes, he excitedly waits for the results... YES!! he got more than he expected, where is it going? JAPAN‽, WHAT‽‽‽
God I love the Japanese. As an American from the south that drives a 50 year old pickup truck, I give this a huge two thumbs up.
Ah, the good old Ford Flathead. 130 optimistic hp at a whopping 4500 rpm but damn do they always sound good. So nice to see people out there having fun with these cars. If this were in America, there'd be countless crying baby dolls propped up against them and tons of boomers in Hawaiian shirts sitting in foldable chairs behind them.
Japanese once again doing our car culture better in most cases.
lmao
Thank you for sharing this part of car culture and not just JDM and drifting, sure i like that to! but i love american classic cars, i drive a 63 Cadillac my self and it is fun to se how the Japanese do Hot Rodding and Classic cars over there :)
Cheers!
Is it weird that I was expecting TEs on at least one of them.? Japan is cool
As an American, it always amazes me how much other countries know about our history, while we as Americans (collectively) know so little about other countries’ histories. We aren’t taught any other history than American history in school until college, and usually it’s voluntary.
Very cool to see these folks enjoying these ratrods!
As someone who used to live deep within the hills of moonshine country, I love seeing this. NASCAR started from bootleggers pitting their modified cars against each other.
Big engines and skinny tires, sliding around in the dirt? That's honestly not far off Grand Prix racing in the 1910's and 1920's. I've always loved the idea of thrashing an old Bugatti or Fiat down a dusty road, this is basically the next best thing!
Japan:"The space next to the river cannot be used for housing because of potential flooding."
Politicians in my country:"(let's pretend we did not hear that), cheap real estate people!"
i want the hardly drivable jacket the guy had on at 3:37
Merch idea for Alexi?
I never would've thought i'd see the words japanese, hotrods, dirt, and drifting all in one title
Haha for real
Hell yeah brother :noriboom:
Man, I love your vids. The shot at 3:37 was funny, and the short explanation at 4:04 is appreciated, I've always seen those landscapes in my Japanese animus, now I know why.
Those cars and drivers are rad as hell. Super cool to see stuff like this all the way in Japan!
Your accent is actually really good at the beginning. I moved to southern usa recently and have heard people talk just like you alexi
I live in a blue collar enclave on the west coast of the US. The town next to me is know for hot rods, kustoms and an active chapter of the Hells Angels, while my city was known for Lowriders (my city made cruising illegal in '98). It's awesome to see the Japanese replicating our car culture! My neighbor who built a show '61 Impala mentioned some of his buddies in his club being approached by Japanese fans and being offered over 100k for their rides on the spot! The only thing that bugs me is that as these rides age and international interest gets bigger, it's becoming more and more of a rich man's hobby. Back in the day, lowrider clubs had a guys who was a mechanic, another dude who was an electrician, a body guy and they would help each other out building some dope cars. Now these cars are becoming unattainable as the day goes by! Anyways, I'm not on here to hate, I love the attention to detail the Japanese crowd strives for!
you should have started the video in black and white the appropriate grain with some top hats, monocle and a pipe in hand.
seeing these super old cars being driven hard isnt something we get to see everyday lol even my daily doesnt get abused like that XD but its cool tho, cars before the 70s were dang wicked!
lol the accent
It was actually pretty accurate
Love the Offenhauser logo on the cylinder head there. Cool to see them running actual flatheads
Awesome machines and what a great venue. These guys sure know how to have fun. Very cool and surprising event report, thank you Alexi👍
Keep thinking, Japanese moonshine, a world market awaits.
Most of what you are seeing is they typical "Lake" or "Lakester" style, especially the red Ford(?) with the rounded nose on it. Also, most of the time when they run no fenders and jack up the rear to give it a rake in the front you would call that a "HiBoy" but thats usually reserved for more of a pristine Hot Rod and not the Rat Rod style that seems to be the other theme here
Honestly, you sounded strangely like my grandpa from rural Kansas.
This is absolutely awesome. I wish America would have events like this, maybe a prohibition class in autocross and rally cross lol
Check out The Race of Gentlemen.
Didn't know this sort thing existed here in Japan- thanks for sharing!
ahahaha that was a decent American accent considering i know our real voice. best intro ever
Haha the background was so perfect too. I totally thought he was filming in America for a sec
Alexi: sees american car in japan
*American accent intensifies*
Just when you think you've seen everything to do with Japanese car culture, along comes ratrod/hotrod dirt drifting
as an American, I whole heartedly approve.
give us your skylines and you can have our V8's
A fair trade
JaPOKNESS CARS LMFAO AHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH that shit was way to funny and the accent XD
Also i wanna be like this man when i'm older, goddamn. 3:46
Your Albeme-Texes-accent sounds pretty fine but still has some room for improvement. 🤭 No apologies needed. 😄
Flag girl is a whole vibe!
Short wheelbase drifting is always so spicy 👍🏻
This is why you're the greatest JDM car channel on UA-cam.
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Many of the cars are from the 20s and 30s, but the vast majority of these are 40s-50s style traditional rods, although there were a few prewar style roadsters in the mix. Also looking at the cars in the video, the registration thing must apply to atleast 1933. The Dodge Dart was also cool, looks like the owner is going for an early 60s factory super stock look. American manufacturers were heavily involved in drag racing in the early 60s, so you could get factory lightweight/high power cars intended for super stock drag racing.
Oh my.. This looks like a dream to experience :D
TURN RIGHT TO GO LEFT
Hahaha that looks like doc!
Hardly driveable 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌💪 fuckin mint !!
Startgirl jump is soo cute :D
And all this stuff are awesome..:)
that was the best southern accent impression ive ever heard. i currently live in alabama. you could've passed as an american for sure.
The chicken wire roof is stock they just took the leather off. Either that or it rotted off and didn't replace it.
Kinda funny how an american style event in Japan looks more appealing then one in America it self
this just proves every country has their own Florida men
now this is what i really wanted to WATCH!! HOT RODS!!
I have this disease of liking any car that has Japanese plates on them
Never thought I'd ever see someone sliding a 5 window
I thought it's new roadkill episode.
the truck styling from that era til the 50's was the best style
This was awesome ! Loved the music in the cinematic piece.
The real roots of drifting. 😄
9:25 off course its a prosucc that as that paint 😆
This is so fantastically pointless it makes me want to move to Japan! :D
I’m 2 seconds in and this is the best episode YET!!!!!!! 🤘
Great soundtrack Alexi🤙
Thanks for the Awesome video mate! Could we have a few more like this, kustom culture, choppers please. Cheers
when he switched to an american accent i lost it 😭
3:45 that man is the embodiment of the word 'cool'
Anyone know the song playlist?
I’m convinced that the Japanese can make any car look good
YeeYeee
Hurd the no matter what car subculture your into you can find it in Japan afew times but I'm still waiting for the B&S ute meet :P
Dang Alexi, the GMC Savannah at 2:15 really hits home the America illusion
Hahahaha
I wonder how expensive it is to keep one of these things running, i dont imagine the parts and panels are available anymore if at all no?
So so cool! I had no idea there was/is that much classic iron in Japan!
Add: On style, some are going for the 'Rat Rod' look, but I see a lot of pure PostWar classic hot rods, when soldiers were returning from over seas and souping up the average two door/coupe, striping them down for weight and going for a ride.
Also a few 'moonshiner specials' for good measure!
3:41 Funny, that's the exact kind of music that comes to mind when I think of american cars.
Rice burnin' japonese cars 😂😂😂😂
bruhhh your southern accent is on point lol
Love the "Simplistic" functionality of these vehicles and/or this club...
You should take a "road trip" to Cuba...just say'n...👊
Nothing like the sound of a flathead exhaust in the morning 🤠🦅
Not bad for an American accent 😂
so much dust i had to put a mask on even tho I'm watching from my PC lmao. love it!!
those are some cool high boys my favorite style of 32 ford also that studabaker was super rare and cool
Didnt know Japan had its own version of T.R.O.G!
that accent in the intro was awesome
It’s like this movie American graffiti I love the mood of those cars 💗
those hot rods looks hella sick, quick question, we haven't seen the beercan in a while (i think) will we be getting some news of her soon ? cya
"Side motor" and "Side power" painted labels are probably about the engines being "side valve engines" ? meaning flathead engines? it´s cool to see various kinds of events in japan. :D Next up Vanning events and custom minivans? Right? LUL
Those heavily chopped highboys are cool. I'm out of the loop on the traditional hot-rod scene here in Los Angeles, but I don't remember seeing this specific look. I dig it!
Hell yeah, love to see them old beasts being used correctly
Makes me want to bring the vt commodore to japan and drift at ebisu and tsukuba. Though id prefer a jzx90 mk2 with a cresta front clip, it would be cool to see a turbo ecotec making the rounds at drift days there
I know it's like a meme that "Japanese do it better" but really... any event in America with cars this old, 95% of them are trailer queens, LS swapped, polished frames, body-swapped Corvette chassis, etc. and the rest are trying _entirely_ way too hard to be "edgy" and rough, rusty on purpose, etc. Every car in this video is 10x cooler and more "authentic" than a bagged Frankenstein car/truck/thing on 22's with tractor tires, fake patina, 1000 hours worth of metal fab and tacked on fake "junk" parts, etc. TBH it's low key embarrassing that Japan does traditional American hotrodding better than America. 😒
noriyaro: Adds japanese flag in the thumbnail.
me: Now im gonna watch it
That rare Model A Victoria being chopped saddens me. Just get a fiberglass chopped body.
Oh shit! A trip down memory lane . . . my aunt had one one of those shoebox Fords her nickname was “Barney Oldfield” lol! I used to drift my pickup truck on dirt roads . . . I thought I was Stirling Moss! I’m 77 years old. 👍👍😁
Most Americans would be having kittens at flogging old metal..mean while in Japan..YEEEEEEEEET!
That Intro tho!!!!
Hey man incredible video! Japanese people are the fuckin coolest people I swear. If you could do a video on a clean 5th gen prelude I would personally love that man. I own a us model and can only imagine the cool preludes in Japan. Cheers man stay safe!
I was thinking the whole time "the only thing this is missing is the pretty Ms. Picciolina" but there she was... Although just a glimpse of her. Anyhoo, howdy y'all!
I would’ve never guess this is a thing. I had no idea people would drift hot rods